Norman Nie
"No one is asking the obvious questions about what kind of world we are going to live in when the Internet becomes ubiquitous. No one asked these questions with the advent of the automobile, which led to unplanned suburbanization, or with the rise of television, which led to the decline of our political parties. We hope we can give society a chance to talk through some of these issues before the changes take place." see also
Jon Katz : How many hours did you work this week?Katie Bacon : Get A Life
At one time, "on line commerce" meant ordering by phone from a catalogue. Was there ever a "CatalogueGuy" who started off in an empty house and waited for things to arrive by mail while keeping a journal of his experiences? If so, the spectacle would have been about as exciting as watching someone buy things off the Internet."
John Udell : Can XML Simplify Auto-Grabbing Web Mail?
Maps of the Debates about the Turing Test
The actual charts are 3' x 4', so the images don't quite do them justice but it's still neat. On a tangential note, now that the
SVG buzz-machine is starting up, please note that there is an open source vector program, written in Python, called
Sketch which can create SVG files. It may not be Illustrator, but then I've never forgotten
my computer animation professor joking with another student that : If you didn't already know how to use Illustrator ... it was too late.
digitalMass : A coder's worst enemy
"But today, in an odd twist, programmers may be turning that same sword on themselves, creating the killer app that proves their undoing: Website development tools."