Is the Universe a computer?: I don't understand it, but I'm pretty sure
people are drawing some false analogies from it.
Pardon me while I make a bigger fool of myself than usual. In fact, I'd
like to make fool of myself in two stages. First, I want to tell you what I
don't understand, in the process getting much wrong. Then I want to tell
you what worries me about the topic I don't understand and am wrong about.
Sound like fun? Here goes!
The universe is a computer. So suggests Stephen Wolfram and others...
The "You First" digital ID pledge: Can we as customers get vendors to agree
not to hurt us?
My worry about digital ID is that even with the most user-centered
technology users inevitably will be faced with a Hobson's choice: Vendors
will insist that we give them more than we want to in order to do business
with them. So, we need more than technology that gives us control. We need
a marketplace that lets us exercise that control...
Bloogle: Google's acquisition of Blogger.com puts it in a position to do
Good or Evil.
Now we see what Google is made of.
Google got to be the #1 brand name world-wide, beating Coke and Osama not
by out-spending them or by having a catchier jingle. No, they did it the
way (frankly) Cluetrain said: by having value and values...
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