Jaron Lanier on connected media, hyperlinks, Ted Nelson, universal micro-payments, and attribution.
This video is an excerpt from Seeing Science Through Fiction. Full video available here.
The urgency of doing
Brendan Eich – How to fix the web
Jeremy Keith – Taking Back The Web
Presentation slide-deck: speakerdeck.com/adactio/taking-back-the-web
Academic research is publicly funded — why isn’t it publicly available?
In the US, your taxes fund academic research at public universities. Why then do you need to pay expensive, for-profit journals for the results of that research? Erica Stone advocates for a new, open-access relationship between the public and scholars, making the case that academics should publish in more accessible media.
The last voice you hear
And may you live to be 150 years old, and the last voice you hear is mine.
— Frank Sinatra
Ikigai – a reason for being
Song of myself
The past and present wilt—I have fill’d them, emptied them.
And proceed to fill my next fold of the future.
Listener up there! what have you to confide to me?
Look in my face while I snuff the sidle of evening,
(Talk honestly, no one else hears you, and I stay only a minute
longer.)
Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)
I concentrate toward them that are nigh, I wait on the door-slab.
Who has done his day’s work? who will soonest be through with
his supper?
Who wishes to walk with me?
Will you speak before I am gone? will you prove already too late?
— Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass.
Blockchain, Explained [with Lego]
Blockchain is extremely interesting, but it can be difficult to understand. This video by PCMag is an attempt to visually show how the blockchain works, using building blocks as an analogy.
It does not fully explain how the technology side works, and it doesn’t go into full details in regards to cryptography. However it is a good first step if you are curious about decentralized networks, cryptocurrencies and online trust.
Plus, it has Lego, so I had to share it 🙂
It’s all illusion
Remember young sir, it’s all illusion; and dreams though potent, are no solution to the problems that we face. The rainbows that we chase are no more real than the idea that your foot will heal. My words no doubt seem strange to you, but please remember that they’re true.
— The Pied Piper of Hamelin – Faerie Tale Theatre.