Posts in 2020

• Some thoughts on the Glass Bead Game
  17.25, Wednesday 29 Jan 2020
  651 words, 1 link

• Interconnected is 20 years old today
  12.26, Wednesday 19 Feb 2020
  196 words, 4 links
  Has 1 follow-up post
  Tagged: meta

• VP of Something
  07.45, Friday 21 Feb 2020
  698 words, 1 link
  Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2020

• Now people are comfortable with video
  19.38, Tuesday 31 Mar 2020
  482 words, 5 links
  Has 1 follow-up post

• Perhaps China’s centralised supply chain won’t last forever
  20.42, Wednesday 1 Apr 2020
  1,032 words, 9 links
  Has 3 follow-up posts
  Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2020, speculative-in-2020

• New rooms for the new normal
  18.13, Thursday 2 Apr 2020
  628 words, 4 links
  Has 2 follow-up posts
  Tagged: speculative-in-2020

• Just a quick couple of links about bears, because I’ve been busy today
  19.28, Friday 3 Apr 2020
  109 words, 2 links

• The law, the 4 day working week, and how come society doesn’t see the benefit of automation
  20.09, Monday 6 Apr 2020 (streak: 2 weeks)
  818 words, 1 link

• Cyborg prosthetics for limbs that don’t exist
  18.15, Tuesday 7 Apr 2020 (streak: 2 weeks)
  712 words, 10 links
  Has 8 follow-up posts
  Tagged: glimpses-of-our-cyborg-future, speculative-in-2020

• Neutron bombs and suddenly being able to see the key economy
  19.55, Thursday 9 Apr 2020 (streak: 2 weeks)
  942 words, 4 links
  Has 2 follow-up posts

• The day between the crucifixion and the resurrection
  11.14, Saturday 11 Apr 2020 (streak: 2 weeks)
  544 words, 2 links

• So what happens with all the empty office space?
  20.15, Monday 13 Apr 2020 (streak: 3 weeks)
  441 words, no links
  Has 1 follow-up post

• A starter list of ersatz foods
  19.42, Tuesday 14 Apr 2020 (streak: 3 weeks)
  306 words, 7 links
  Tagged: food-and-so-on

• Don’t drop bombs, drop schools and hospitals
  20.18, Wednesday 15 Apr 2020 (streak: 3 weeks)
  818 words, 3 links
  Tagged: political-fantasies

• Re: Tom Critchlow’s proposal for a decentralised Goodreads-like system, how about using RSS?
  16.51, Thursday 16 Apr 2020 (streak: 3 weeks)
  1,245 words, 18 links

• What if charisma is a golden mane?
  19.32, Friday 17 Apr 2020 (streak: 3 weeks)
  442 words, 4 links
  Has 5 follow-up posts
  Tagged: speculative-in-2020

• Some rambling thoughts about the stuttering end of the last ice age and what lockdown means
  20.47, Monday 20 Apr 2020 (streak: 4 weeks)
  747 words, 4 links
  Has 1 follow-up post
  Tagged: complexity, the-ancient-world-is-now

• Video calls, doing stuff together, and the TV room
  17.24, Wednesday 22 Apr 2020 (streak: 4 weeks)
  1,320 words, 3 links
  Has 1 follow-up post

• Animal Crossing and games as wish fulfilment
  19.30, Friday 24 Apr 2020 (streak: 4 weeks)
  752 words, 5 links

• Domestic telepresence at scale: some notes
  21.05, Monday 27 Apr 2020 (streak: 5 weeks)
  1,450 words, 14 links
  Tagged: multiplayer

• Video game soundtracks, and a format for adaptive long music
  17.58, Tuesday 28 Apr 2020 (streak: 5 weeks)
  1,354 words, 14 links
  Has 1 follow-up post
  Tagged: sound-and-music

• So I went outside and we’re all wearing masks now
  17.07, Saturday 2 May 2020 (streak: 5 weeks)
  1,010 words, 6 links

• Two methods of producing butter, and two for sugar too
  18.04, Tuesday 5 May 2020 (streak: 6 weeks)
  530 words, 6 links
  Tagged: food-and-so-on

• There is no After
  17.31, Wednesday 6 May 2020 (streak: 6 weeks)
  1,653 words, 6 links
  Has 3 follow-up posts
  Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2020

• Public computing and two ideas for touchless interfaces
  12.40, Monday 11 May 2020 (streak: 7 weeks)
  995 words, 5 links
  Tagged: hooray-for-qr-codes

• How about hyperlocal pandemic forecasting
  19.39, Tuesday 12 May 2020 (streak: 7 weeks)
  867 words, 8 links
  Has 1 follow-up post
  Tagged: speculative-in-2020, weather

• Rethinking conference talks for video calls
  19.27, Friday 15 May 2020 (streak: 7 weeks)
  1,346 words, 1 link
  Has 4 follow-up posts
  Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2020

• Gross National Diversity
  19.30, Tuesday 19 May 2020 (streak: 8 weeks)
  766 words, 4 links
  Has 1 follow-up post

• Rambling thoughts about cyborgs and emotions
  20.00, Wednesday 20 May 2020 (streak: 8 weeks)
  798 words, 9 links
  Has 2 follow-up posts
  Tagged: esoteric-supersenses, glimpses-of-our-cyborg-future, space

• A month long conference is a neat concept
  14.35, Sunday 24 May 2020 (streak: 8 weeks)
  479 words, 4 links
  Has 3 follow-up posts
  Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2020

• How I would put voice control in everything
  20.18, Tuesday 26 May 2020 (streak: 9 weeks)
  1,064 words, 8 links
  Has 9 follow-up posts
  Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2020, speculative-in-2020, yes-to-interoperability

• Grocery shopping, localism, and last mile delivery
  19.55, Thursday 28 May 2020 (streak: 9 weeks)
  1,276 words, 9 links
  Has 4 follow-up posts
  Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2020, food-and-so-on

• Filtered for musical cyborgs
  19.27, Friday 29 May 2020 (streak: 9 weeks)
  653 words, 7 links
  Has 3 follow-up posts
  Tagged: filtered-for, glimpses-of-our-cyborg-future, sound-and-music

• Experiments with projectors and video calls
  08.16, Thursday 4 Jun 2020 (streak: 10 weeks)
  752 words, 7 links
  Has 2 follow-up posts
  Tagged: speculative-in-2020

• Singing bridges
  19.53, Monday 8 Jun 2020 (streak: 11 weeks)
  583 words, 8 links
  Has 1 follow-up post
  Tagged: sound-and-music

• From the other side of the bridge
  14.50, Friday 12 Jun 2020 (streak: 11 weeks)
  452 words, 6 links
  Has 3 follow-up posts
  Tagged: inner-and-outer-realities, taking-magic-seriously

• Filtered for hallway tracks and spreadsheet parties
  13.29, Monday 15 Jun 2020 (streak: 12 weeks)
  1,517 words, 12 links
  Has 4 follow-up posts
  Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2020, 5-most-popular-in-2020, filtered-for

• Quotebacks and hypertexts
  08.54, Tuesday 16 Jun 2020 (streak: 12 weeks)
  1,286 words, 14 links
  Has 1 follow-up post

• Personal software vs factory-produced software
  20.46, Thursday 18 Jun 2020 (streak: 12 weeks)
  455 words, 4 links
  Has 1 follow-up post

• Early web videos, eye contact, and anti-attention
  20.43, Monday 22 Jun 2020 (streak: 13 weeks)
  651 words, 8 links
  Has 2 follow-up posts

• 3 books from Chris Noessel
  18.55, Tuesday 23 Jun 2020 (streak: 13 weeks)
  668 words, 7 links
  Tagged: 3-books

• What are the problems with Big Tech?
  21.50, Monday 29 Jun 2020 (streak: 14 weeks)
  1,346 words, 6 links
  Has 1 follow-up post
  Tagged: political-fantasies

• Space, weather, and other novel battlegrounds
  21.12, Tuesday 30 Jun 2020 (streak: 14 weeks)
  763 words, 8 links
  Has 4 follow-up posts
  Tagged: space, weather

• Idle thoughts about how we replace keyboards
  20.04, Friday 3 Jul 2020 (streak: 14 weeks)
  910 words, 7 links
  Has 2 follow-up posts

• 3 books from Tom Stafford
  17.19, Wednesday 8 Jul 2020 (streak: 15 weeks)
  663 words, 10 links
  Tagged: 3-books

• Settling the Sun
  18.55, Friday 10 Jul 2020 (streak: 15 weeks)
  352 words, 3 links
  Has 1 follow-up post
  Tagged: space

• Secret cyborgs and an old story
  19.21, Monday 13 Jul 2020 (streak: 16 weeks)
  710 words, 3 links
  Has 2 follow-up posts
  Tagged: food-and-so-on, glimpses-of-our-cyborg-future

• Do humans have a north sense?
  20.14, Tuesday 14 Jul 2020 (streak: 16 weeks)
  439 words, 5 links
  Has 4 follow-up posts
  Tagged: esoteric-supersenses

• On speaking with dolphins
  17.32, Monday 20 Jul 2020 (streak: 17 weeks)
  702 words, 7 links
  Has 4 follow-up posts
  Tagged: dolphins

• Sales pipelines, consultancy, and navigating the lockdown
  19.58, Wednesday 22 Jul 2020 (streak: 17 weeks)
  1,084 words, 4 links
  Has 1 follow-up post

• Spatial interfaces for conversations and software
  18.37, Thursday 23 Jul 2020 (streak: 17 weeks)
  1,170 words, 15 links
  Has 2 follow-up posts

• How would I improve RSS? Three ideas
  19.40, Wednesday 29 Jul 2020 (streak: 18 weeks)
  1,702 words, 7 links
  Has 3 follow-up posts
  Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2020

• More experiments with video calls, and what slides are for
  21.20, Friday 31 Jul 2020 (streak: 18 weeks)
  1,376 words, 11 links
  Has 1 follow-up post

• A short ballet piece from Romeo and Juliet
  19.28, Tuesday 4 Aug 2020 (streak: 19 weeks)
  465 words, 1 link
  Tagged: sound-and-music

• The serendipity machine, and what is Job Garden anyway?
  19.24, Wednesday 5 Aug 2020 (streak: 19 weeks)
  555 words, 7 links
  Has 2 follow-up posts
  Tagged: job-garden

• Rainbow spacecraft and how humanity might end
  19.32, Thursday 6 Aug 2020 (streak: 19 weeks)
  1,005 words, 5 links
  Has 3 follow-up posts
  Tagged: eschatology, space

• If I got made king of web browsers, here’s what I’d do
  13.41, Friday 7 Aug 2020 (streak: 19 weeks)
  1,074 words, 7 links

• The holy founding text of The Church of the Next Word, as revealed to Frank Lantz
  21.12, Monday 10 Aug 2020 (streak: 20 weeks)
  1,084 words, 7 links
  Has 3 follow-up posts
  Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2020, 5-most-popular-in-2020, dowsing-the-collective-unconscious, gpt-3

• Like, just a post complaining that screens should be better
  19.45, Tuesday 11 Aug 2020 (streak: 20 weeks)
  386 words, 4 links
  Has 2 follow-up posts
  Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2020, speculative-in-2020

• Introducing aboutfeeds.com, a Getting Started guide for web feeds and RSS
  14.27, Wednesday 12 Aug 2020 (streak: 20 weeks)
  552 words, 5 links
  Has 2 follow-up posts
  Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2020

• Filtered for small groups
  20.16, Tuesday 18 Aug 2020 (streak: 21 weeks)
  823 words, 6 links
  Has 3 follow-up posts
  Tagged: filtered-for, multiplayer

• We already have mirror pixels and camera pixels
  20.39, Wednesday 19 Aug 2020 (streak: 21 weeks)
  462 words, 8 links

• Lockdown and discovering new micro-hedonisms
  17.52, Thursday 20 Aug 2020 (streak: 21 weeks)
  633 words, 2 links
  Has 1 follow-up post

• What if A.I. gets 100x better in a matter of months?
  15.48, Monday 24 Aug 2020 (streak: 22 weeks)
  405 words, 4 links
  Has 5 follow-up posts
  Tagged: eschatology, gpt-3

• Revisiting Adaptive Design, a lost design movement
  15.22, Wednesday 26 Aug 2020 (streak: 22 weeks)
  1,505 words, 17 links
  Has 5 follow-up posts
  Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2020

• Asimov’s Foundation, and what’s unique about science fiction
  12.07, Thursday 27 Aug 2020 (streak: 22 weeks)
  1,378 words, 6 links
  Has 1 follow-up post
  Tagged: space

• Risk: micromorts, microCOVIDs, and skydiving
  12.42, Tuesday 1 Sep 2020 (streak: 23 weeks)
  977 words, 10 links
  Has 3 follow-up posts
  Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2020, 5-most-popular-in-2020

• Augmented reality should use magic mirrors, not glasses
  15.17, Wednesday 2 Sep 2020 (streak: 23 weeks)
  1,069 words, 9 links
  Tagged: taking-magic-seriously, weather

• GPT-3 is an idea machine
  13.22, Friday 4 Sep 2020 (streak: 23 weeks)
  1,109 words, 2 links
  Has 10 follow-up posts
  Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2020, dowsing-the-collective-unconscious, gpt-3

• Naming algorithms and the ghosts in Pac-Man
  22.04, Monday 7 Sep 2020 (streak: 24 weeks)
  454 words, 4 links
  Has 3 follow-up posts
  Tagged: anthropomorphise-all-hyperobjects, ghosts

• Coffee from ice cream vans, and other remote working perks
  17.13, Tuesday 8 Sep 2020 (streak: 24 weeks)
  598 words, 4 links
  Has 1 follow-up post
  Tagged: food-and-so-on, speculative-in-2020

• Countdown clocks, zines, and an imagined website from 2001
  19.54, Wednesday 9 Sep 2020 (streak: 24 weeks)
  1,093 words, 11 links
  Has 1 follow-up post

• 15 rules for blogging, and my current streak
  18.07, Thursday 10 Sep 2020 (streak: 24 weeks)
  493 words, 2 links
  Has 7 follow-up posts
  Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2020, meta, writing-about-writing

• ID’ing movies by fingerprinting the breath for isoprene
  16.36, Tuesday 15 Sep 2020 (streak: 25 weeks)
  558 words, 6 links
  Has 1 follow-up post
  Tagged: speculative-in-2020

• Fanboost and other magical manifestations of the will
  19.38, Wednesday 16 Sep 2020 (streak: 25 weeks)
  624 words, 6 links
  Has 2 follow-up posts
  Tagged: taking-magic-seriously

• Hints towards a non-extractive economy
  18.48, Friday 18 Sep 2020 (streak: 25 weeks)
  499 words, 5 links
  Has 1 follow-up post

• The skill stays in your hands
  14.53, Tuesday 22 Sep 2020 (streak: 26 weeks)
  613 words, 3 links
  Tagged: functional-divination

• Mars problems vs Venus problems
  14.45, Wednesday 23 Sep 2020 (streak: 26 weeks)
  825 words, 7 links
  Has 3 follow-up posts
  Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2020, 5-most-popular-in-2020, space

• Unoffice Hours: what it is and how to book a call
  14.35, Thursday 24 Sep 2020 (streak: 26 weeks)
  835 words, 10 links
  Has 8 follow-up posts

• Three feelings that I don’t have words for
  20.53, Tuesday 29 Sep 2020 (streak: 27 weeks)
  725 words, 2 links
  Has 2 follow-up posts

• A problem with my wifi, and wide causal systems
  12.36, Friday 2 Oct 2020 (streak: 27 weeks)
  712 words, 4 links
  Tagged: complexity

• Ancient magicians as innovation consultants. Also birds
  19.51, Monday 5 Oct 2020 (streak: 28 weeks)
  758 words, 5 links
  Has 2 follow-up posts
  Tagged: functional-divination, speculative-in-2020, taking-magic-seriously, the-ancient-world-is-now, weather

• Dragonfly drones and orthogonal invention
  21.35, Wednesday 7 Oct 2020 (streak: 28 weeks)
  898 words, 4 links
  Has 3 follow-up posts
  Tagged: weather

• Social software needs to be designed with social sidetone
  19.47, Thursday 8 Oct 2020 (streak: 28 weeks)
  680 words, 5 links
  Tagged: interfaces-for-ambient-awareness

• Various first words
  20.56, Monday 12 Oct 2020 (streak: 29 weeks)
  217 words, 8 links
  Has 1 follow-up post
  Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2020, 5-most-popular-in-2020

• Video calling is terrible and we need interop
  17.59, Wednesday 14 Oct 2020 (streak: 29 weeks)
  664 words, 3 links
  Has 3 follow-up posts
  Tagged: multiplayer, yes-to-interoperability

• An overly complex hack for finding books on cluttered shelves
  20.02, Thursday 15 Oct 2020 (streak: 29 weeks)
  573 words, 2 links
  Has 1 follow-up post
  Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2020, writing-about-writing

• Pay-per-use physics models for virtual fashion
  19.46, Wednesday 21 Oct 2020 (streak: 30 weeks)
  993 words, 3 links
  Has 2 follow-up posts
  Tagged: speculative-in-2020

• An Ariston TV spot from the early 1990s
  19.36, Friday 23 Oct 2020 (streak: 30 weeks)
  297 words, 6 links

• Perhaps society needs both me-money and we-money
  17.56, Monday 26 Oct 2020 (streak: 31 weeks)
  1,119 words, 1 link
  Tagged: company-scrip, speculative-in-2020

• A fantasy of a glitch in the universe
  18.34, Tuesday 27 Oct 2020 (streak: 31 weeks)
  698 words, 7 links
  Has 4 follow-up posts

• Xenia: the ancient Greek norm of guest-friendship
  19.20, Monday 2 Nov 2020 (streak: 32 weeks)
  381 words, 1 link

• What it’s like to vote in the UK
  18.51, Tuesday 3 Nov 2020 (streak: 32 weeks)
  928 words, 4 links

• My epiphany at the dentist and how I carried it back to reality
  18.39, Thursday 5 Nov 2020 (streak: 32 weeks)
  1,503 words, 1 link
  Has 3 follow-up posts

• Haunted radio
  17.30, Monday 9 Nov 2020 (streak: 33 weeks)
  723 words, 6 links
  Has 1 follow-up post
  Tagged: ghosts

• Machine English and why I bake bread for 49 minutes
  17.49, Tuesday 10 Nov 2020 (streak: 33 weeks)
  558 words, 6 links
  Tagged: ageography

• The Fall of Rome (just the poem)
  20.59, Thursday 12 Nov 2020 (streak: 33 weeks)
  163 words, no links
  Tagged: poetry

• Self-driving corporations
  20.56, Tuesday 17 Nov 2020 (streak: 34 weeks)
  1,252 words, 5 links
  Has 2 follow-up posts
  Tagged: speculative-in-2020

• How to collaborate with AIs
  18.40, Thursday 19 Nov 2020 (streak: 34 weeks)
  722 words, 5 links
  Has 2 follow-up posts
  Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2020, gpt-3, writing-about-writing

• Multiplayer docs, webcam fashion, noisy icons: three ideas
  19.50, Friday 20 Nov 2020 (streak: 34 weeks)
  1,397 words, 14 links
  Has 4 follow-up posts
  Tagged: multiplayer

• Some thoughts on the Chorleywood bread process
  22.08, Monday 23 Nov 2020 (streak: 35 weeks)
  1,012 words, 7 links
  Has 1 follow-up post
  Tagged: food-and-so-on, yeast

• Faster than real-time simulation, a new hammer
  19.32, Thursday 26 Nov 2020 (streak: 35 weeks)
  561 words, 2 links
  Has 3 follow-up posts

• Who owns your synthetic self?
  17.13, Friday 27 Nov 2020 (streak: 35 weeks)
  664 words, 12 links

• New horizons for office furniture
  18.49, Monday 30 Nov 2020 (streak: 36 weeks)
  809 words, 14 links
  Has 2 follow-up posts
  Tagged: computing-history, speculative-in-2020

• Extrapolation and the Windows 95 startup sound
  19.35, Wednesday 2 Dec 2020 (streak: 36 weeks)
  530 words, 9 links
  Has 2 follow-up posts
  Tagged: extrapolation, gpt-3, sound-and-music

• Could software-enabled co-ops help workers push back on Big Tech?
  16.36, Friday 4 Dec 2020 (streak: 36 weeks)
  760 words, 7 links
  Has 5 follow-up posts

• Modern consensus ghosts such as the Monkey Man and the Gatwick Drone
  20.47, Tuesday 8 Dec 2020 (streak: 37 weeks)
  1,780 words, 9 links
  Has 2 follow-up posts
  Tagged: dowsing-the-collective-unconscious, ghosts, speculative-in-2020

• The hard work of imagining, ThingsCon 2020
  16.00, Friday 11 Dec 2020 (streak: 37 weeks)
  2,731 words, 17 links
  Has 4 follow-up posts

• Artificial meteor showers and the function of omens
  19.34, Tuesday 15 Dec 2020 (streak: 38 weeks)
  508 words, 6 links
  Has 2 follow-up posts
  Tagged: comets, functional-divination, space, taking-magic-seriously, the-ancient-world-is-now

• We live in a semiotarchy
  19.46, Wednesday 16 Dec 2020 (streak: 38 weeks)
  288 words, 1 link
  Has 1 follow-up post

• My most popular posts in 2020 and other lists
  10.56, Thursday 17 Dec 2020 (streak: 38 weeks)
  242 words, 14 links
  Has 4 follow-up posts
  Tagged: meta

• Minecraft is haunted and Twitter too
  10.08, Tuesday 22 Dec 2020 (streak: 39 weeks)
  357 words, 2 links
  Tagged: ghosts

• Chemicals to help you write PowerPoint and other cognitive fantasies
  14.55, Wednesday 23 Dec 2020 (streak: 39 weeks)
  695 words, 8 links
  Has 1 follow-up post
  Tagged: speculative-in-2020

• What I’ve been reading in 2020
  13.24, Monday 28 Dec 2020 (streak: 40 weeks)
  1,010 words, 12 links
  Has 4 follow-up posts
  Tagged: reading-roundup

• 2021 is when lockdown will stop mattering
  12.06, Tuesday 29 Dec 2020 (streak: 40 weeks)
  609 words, 4 links
  Has 1 follow-up post

• Air travel sucks so here’s an alternative future
  15.32, Thursday 31 Dec 2020 (streak: 40 weeks)
  1,279 words, 2 links
  Tagged: speculative-in-2020

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