2020: All Books Will Be
Cross-Platform and Interactive.
Future "books" will be bundled with soundtracks, musical leitmotifs, 3-D graphics, and streaming video. They'll be enhanced with social bookmarking, online dating, and alerts from geo-networking apps whenever someone in your locality purchases the same book as you— anything so you don't have to actually read the thing. Authors will do their own marketing, the reader will be responsible for distribution, the wisdom of crowds will take care of the editing, and the invisible hand of the market will perform the actual writing (if any). Writers will respond either by going viral or by going feral.
But please read the whole thing.
Oh Cell Phones, you wacky, privacy-consuming nutballs!
But as a German Green party politician, Malte Spitz, recently learned, we are already continually being tracked whether we volunteer to be or not. Cellphone companies do not typically divulge how much information they collect, so Mr. Spitz went to court to find out exactly what his cellphone company, Deutsche Telekom, knew about his whereabouts.
The answer may surprise small children and those recently awakened from decade-plus long comas.
Portrait of the patriarchy, courtesy of this 1961 Disneyland fashion shoot:
click through, the full sized original is way creepier.
Is nothing sacred?
The tranquil world of international chess has been thrown into uproar by accusations of intricate "cheating by text message" against three senior French players.
And the chess nerd follow up!
File under "this dad is way cooler than I'll ever be".
Neat site made by a fellow who streams music.
Reminds me to look into podcast hosting...
And finally, I would totally drop a quarter for this awesome game experience.
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