2020 Vision is a collection of sci-fi short stories written roughly during the mid-70’s which were then compiled together in 1980. When I bought the book, I had thought it would be fun to close out the year with a light-hearted review of the whole collection or possibly just one of its better pieces. I had hoped to make note of particularly poignant or striking predictions that had been posited about our potential future, and to possibly compare and contrast…
I’m excited to take some time to review one of my favorite books: The Human Use of Human Beings. I’ve always had an interest in computers and human behavior, and at it’s heart this book is meant to be an examination of how we might define the intersection of those two things. Before I get too much into the book though, I do feel the need to spend just a bit of time talking about the author. Who Was Norbert…
My Very Exciting Clerical Work I’ve recently reclaimed a significant enough amount of free time that I’m finally able to revisit and catalogue about a decade’s worth of notes. On everything. In all of the formats. I know that while for most the sound of digging through old papers and hyperlinks and then putting them in one neatly organized location rings as dull and awful and boring work, but I’m actually pretty excited about it. The first interesting stray topic…