UnbendableArm

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Kevin Kelly — The Technium

Simulations for rehearsing architecture spaces, or designing electronic circuits, or previwing demolition explosions and chemical experiments all are built with the metaphor of realistic actions. Pilot simulators, and virtual simulators for training submariners, police, soldiers, surgery, or for operating big machinery – all these work by eliciting real behavior from the [...]

David McCoy — A member of the Gartner Blog Network

"No big batch of New Year’s resolutions for me this January 1.  I’m breaking the habit.  Perhaps – at best – I have a 30% win ratio on my resolutions.  At the start of each new year, three of the roughly 10 resolutions made at the [...]

Books of the Year: An all-star line-up of writers give their verdict on 2008’s best – Features, Books – The Independent

Now You See Him by Eli Gottlieb (Serpent’s Tail)

ibor Fischer’s Good to Be God (Alma)

Homicide (Canongate)

Kate Summerscale’s The Suspicions of Mr Whicher (Bloomsbury)

Douglas Hofstadter’s I Am a Strange [...]