Tag: brain

  • Maybe the internet is alive already?

    I’ve been thinking a lot about the internet since about 1977, when I first realised what computers could do and that they could talk to each other. I used to tell people that one day that we would all have computers and that they would be connected by the phone and that one day the…

  • Criticism – don’t take it lying down – Shoo Rayner Writing School

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeXJG1Ri8cs I’ve posted a vid on Youtube about criticism. I got two pieces of criticism on my drawing school site that made me think. One was not nice and one was brilliant. How can the bad one, (from someone who is obviously ignorant and thoughtless) be so crushing and the good one not quite make…

  • You are not a gadget – Jaron Lanier – part 2

    I’ve finished reading Jaron Lanier’s You are not a gadget,. The positive ideas he said would be at the end of the book never really arrived. He has to split his mind in two to be able to start questioning, never mind get answers. He views art and humanity from a humanist viewpoint and technology…