Everything seems to be going “global”. Some examples will show this: Wars are looking more and more like global police actions, rather than international conflicts. The financial systems allows money to flow globally, very much like in the heyday of the Gold Standard. Even the…
We exist in a constant balance of freedom and constrain. This is so in the physical space, in our spiritual and moral spheres, in our relationship with the economy, politics and the law, and it is the reality of our body in relationship with its surroundings. The outcomes of evolution and ecology…
In the last weeks I have been moving from Mexico to Boston. For the next couple of years I will be attending classes at MIT and working from my Boston office. I will resume posting in a few days.
Some years before Vannevar Bush wrote about the Memex, the solitary Jorge Luis Borges penned a singular short story: Funes el Memorioso. There is a good translation by Andrew Hurley, with the somewhat awkward title of Funes, His Memory. At first it may seem strange to…
Robert Musil, a writer and novelist, author of “The Man Without Qualities“, was a prolific writer of diaries and letters. He viewed the diary as complementary to his work as a writer, and thought of how it fitted his artistic and political vision. The diary as a collection of…
In reading the first chapters of Jonathan Zittrain’s “The Future of the Intenet” some interesting ideas come to mind. It is JZ’s argument so far into the book that the “generative” Internet is under threat from what he sees is a pull back to the days of…