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"That Deep Romantic Chasm": Libertarianism, Neoliberalism, and the Computer Culture

https://www.uvm.edu/~tstreete/romantic_chasm.html

of the culture of computers. On the one hand, this essay confirms and elaborates an argument made or suggested by others, notably by Barbrook and Cameron in "The Californian Ideol

Rediscovering the Small Web - Neustadt.fr

https://neustadt.fr/essays/the-small-web/

aviation, music, art, computers. It reminded me that the creative, personal, fun web I grew up with is not a thing of the past. It’s still here in 2020. You just have to know wher
Most websites today are built like commercial products by professionals and marketers, optimised to draw the largest audience, generate engagement and 'convert'. But there is als

The Early History Of Smalltalk

https://worrydream.com/EarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk/

interactive time-shared computers, graphics screens and pointing devices. Advanced computer languages were invented to simulate complex systems such as oil refineries and semi-int

Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web - Neustadt.fr

https://neustadt.fr/essays/against-a-user-hostile-web/

network that allowed computers around the world to communicate—was already in place but it remained inaccessible to most people. You had to know how to use a local client to conne
We are quietly replacing an open web that connects and empowers with one that restricts and commoditizes people. We need to stop it.

C.J. Cherryh - The Panel Room

https://www.cherryh.com/www/panel_room.htm

pencil's given way to computers, because publishers no longer read crabbed longhand and re-typing is, well, no fun.  The paper's pretty much the same, but now you need a comp

The Zeta Directive [Section 8] \\ Neosynth

https://neosynth.net/fiction/the-zeta-directive-section-8/

Despite relying on computers heavily throughout her daily life, computer science was never really her thing. "I, um, I get that you seem to know a lot more about this kind of
In time, her broken heart would heal stronger than it had ever been before, readjusting to her newfound reality.

List of Polymaths

http://www.johnchiappone.com/polymaths.html

binary system used in computers. In physics he anticipated Einstein; his theory of motion saw space as relative.   ? Sir Isaac Newton (1643?1727) English physicist, mathemati
John Chiappone

FictionMags Index Family: Notes

http://www.philsp.com/docs/fm_user4.html

and anomalies. However, computers are, of course, a mixed blessing. The core of the Crime Fiction Index , for example, remains the contents of the two previous indexes, which were

http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/rants/system-software-research.txt

http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/rants/system-software-research.txt

decided how it wants computers to be. The systems software research community influenced that decision somewhat, but very little, and now it is shut out of the discussion. It has

* arachnoid.com

https://arachnoid.com/

Telescope Learn how computers imitate nature. Unicode Character Search An easy-to-use Unicode character search page including emojis. 3D Printing for Builders How to print in dept
A site for people who think. Intellectual resources, programming, astronomy, science, mathematics, Java

Reasoning about the Manned Space Program

https://www.billdietrich.me/ReasonMannedSpaceProgram.html

II: RADAR, jet engines, computers, atomic energy, etc. By the same logic, maybe we should have another world war to get some more spinoffs ? In fact, military weapon development i
My reasoning about the Manned Space Program and space exploration

IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: November 14th, 2008

http://techrights.org/o/2008/11/15/irc-log-14112008/

MinceR well, crApple "computers" are usually bought as room ornaments for gay people Nov 14 17:36 PetoKraus well nice... is there anything he could do? Nov 14 17:36 schestowitz Th
IRC Log for November 14th, 2008


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