When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck; when you invent the plane you also invent the plane crash; and when you invent electricity, you invent electrocution… Every technology carries its own negativity, which is invented at the same time as technical progress. – Paul Virillio Virillio believed in this idea of the […]
Read More French cultural theorist Paul Virillio on the integral accident“Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.”
Read More Orson WellesI sometimes hear about work described in terms of ‘originality’ or ‘breakthrough,’ but my personal experience is quite different. For me music has always been about lineage. The past is reinvented and becomes the future. But the lineage is everything.
Read More Philip Glass, Words Without MusicWherever men have lived there is a story to be told, and it depends chiefly on the story-teller or historian whether that is interesting or not. You are simply a witness on the stand to tell what you know about your neighbors and neighborhood.
Read More Henry David Thoreau (journal, March 18, 1861)Great comedians like Mitch Hedberg make us feel as though we’re hearing something we’ve known for eternity, yet also experiencing for the first time — revealing obvious truths in surprising ways. Every brand or product has multiple truths. One of those will be surprising. When you find a surprising truth, people can’t just file it […]
Read More 70% of people laughing at your joke means that you’re crushing itI’m only at 354 of 975 total pages of the digital copy of Cory Doctorow’s new book, Walkway. Yet I’m highly enjoying the paradox between the haves and have nots, impacted mostly by those who are excited about thinking differently and embracing new technology — and those who are not. Here’s how one of his characters […]
Read More Anything invented before you’re thirty is exciting and will change the world forever“The AI neither hates you, nor loves you, but you are made out of atoms that it can use for something else.” –Eliezer Yudkowsky, A.I. theorist
Read More AI neither hates you, nor loves you
