Chapter Six of A Whole New Mind is about Play, one of the six key abilities of the Conceptual Age. Ernst Lurker writes to say that this idea squares well with the Play Art movement he founded. Check out his site. Among much fascinating information, you’ll find some great quotations about the importance of play […]
Pretty much nothing. The dreamy CNN doc is smarter, better looking, and more accomplished than I am. But if you pick up the May issue of Worthwhile magazine, you’ll see that we do dress alike. Apparently we take our fashion cues from Steve Jobs.
The great Saul Bellow died yesterday. The New York Times has an excellent long obituary that reviews Bellow
I’m off to Phoenix for a day of flogging. If you’re in the area, come to the main event Tuesday night at Vermillion Studios. But even if you’re not in the area, check out the incredibly cool event poster. (Postscript: They’ve apparently added more seats to accommodate additional people — so come on down!)
The Economist (April 2d, 2005) has a great piece about the prevalence of mobile phones in South Korea. Three out of four people in the country carry a mobile — and that ubiquity is overturning even recently established social conventions. For example, “many young South Koreans . . . do not think e-mail is particularly
Robert William Fogel is a Nobel Prize-winning economist whose other claim to fame is that he’s quoted in Chapter 2 of A Whole New Mind. (“[Prosperity] has made it possible to extend the quest for self-realization from a minute fraction of the population to almost the whole of it.”) Fogel has published a new paper,
Careful readers of A Whole New Mind know that three forces are nudging us out of the Information Age and into the Conceptual Age: Abundance, Asia, and Automation. Marian Baker sends a great example of abundance: a $345 candle.
In 1999, law professor Larry Lessig wrote a fascinating book titled Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace. But law and technology have the ugly habit of changing, so the book now needs some revisions. Rather than do it entirely himself, however, the monumentally creative Lessig has established a wiki that will allow anybody to edit,
