While sifting through a cardboard box of books last week in the basement of my parent’s house, I came across Glenn Reynolds’ 2006 book An Army of Davids: How markets and technology empower ordinary people to beat Big Media, Big Government and other Goliaths. Apparently it had gone unnoticed and was mistakenly placed in a neglected stack of books (along with my copy of William Gibson’s Spook Country!). Continue reading
I was born in 1986. We can refer to myself and other children born in this decade as “Generation Y”, for a lack of a better term. We were the age group that reached maturity in the early 2000′s, and as we seem to share some of the tendencies and habits of Generation X / “The Slacker Generation”, I’d prefer not to be lumped in with the kids born a few years later in the early 90′s (see the Mindset of the class of 2011) – a group who I seem to identify far less with. Continue reading
In reading Ray Kurzweil‘s ‘The Singularity is Near‘, I’ve made the following observation:
We are nearing the end of the era of computing using 2D integrated circuits (the 5th paradigm of computing – earlier paradigms include vacuum tube and solid-state transistor architectures). Continue reading