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The Internet of Tells: Constant biomonitoring and some uses
In poker, they call them tells. The little physical signs that we can't control that give away our inner mental state. What happens if we make these privately machine-readable?For me, a lot of the fun...
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Future-Dense Sentences
There's a technique for pondering emerging technologies that originated, I think, with Jamais Cascio. Imagine you'd been instantly transported back in time x years in a particular place. How many years...
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Spectator Cockroaches, Sand, and the Social Facilitation of Skeuomorphs.
It was an experiment on cyclists in 1898 that first showed us how we might live with robots. It's a really interesting observation. Let me tell you about it.So. I love bots. Give me a pseudo-human...
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Possible Problems of Persona Politeness
One of my AIs is funnier than the other. This is proving to be a problem.But first, consider how the amazing becomes normal very quickly. It feels like I've been using Siri on my phone my entire life,...
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Right Effort, Right Interface
So here's irony. If I stare straight ahead right now, all I can see are screens. My new desk, with my new monitor setup, takes up almost all of my field of view, and yet, as luxurious as this is, it's...
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The French Onion Soup Test for Futurism.
I appear to have started blogging again. This is for my own self, really, and so I cannot claim it will make sense to anyone else. Still: onwards. Like a tribe lost to civilization, I've worked for...
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Competence Porn
Originally Published in British Airways Business Life magazine in September 2019 I’m moving house right now, and so my thoughts have turned to porn. Now, now. Wait a second. Not the regular kind, or...
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Weeknotes, October 22
Hi Everything finds its right time. And despite the fact I’ve been writing online for more than 20 years, and have been running my own business for nearly nine, I’ve never been able to settle into the...
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Liked Links – April 30
The Signal Code: A Rights Based Approach to Information During Crisis: 1. The Right to Information 2. The Right to Protection from Harm 3. The Right to Data Security and Privacy 4. The Right to Data...
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Liked Links – May 1
Process Philosophy: Process philosophy is based on the premise that being is dynamic and that the dynamic nature of being should be the primary focus of any comprehensive philosophical account of...
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ReadyBrek, AR, and Flirting in the age of Corona
If you grew up in the UK in the 1980s, you’ll know this image. It’s from a TV advert for a breakfast cereal called Ready Brek. It’s porridge, but much more finely milled, so it’s ready to eat as soon...
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New Event – Leading in Times of Uncertainty
I’m very happy to be speaking at the Executive Speakers Bureau virtual summit. on May 20th. I’ll be talking about “The Great Reassessment” – scenarios and planning for the post-Covid future.
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Screens. Lots of screens.
I’ve wanted to be able to do this for a long time, and now we can. Here’s a video of my screen a minute or so ago*. If you have an Oculus Quest, and install the Immersed app you can put your mac’s...
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Burner Devices, Bunny Suits, Biosecurity Clauses, and Blood Work
Up until February, I averaged 30 countries a year*. Some for 24 hours, some for a week, but either way, my work ordinarily takes me all over the world. With the lockdown, of course, all of that has...
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Liked Links – May 18
Map of Bay Area Memespace: The Bay Area is unusually dense with idea-driven subcultures that mix and cross-pollinate in fascinating ways, many of which are already enriching rationalist culture. This...
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Brooklyn Protests
Back in the early 2000s I used to like to go to hot places and take pictures. I don’t really do that any more, and my trusty EOS1DSMk2 has been sat uncharged for years. I got it out again this...
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