Tag: Deep Stuff

  • eBooks and authors

    There is a big problem with ebooks. Once all the books in the world have been digitised, there will only be one book. No author, no revenue, except for those who find ways to exploit the power of cut and paste. There will be no reason to write a book again. Books take time and…

  • You are not a gadget – Jaron Lanier

    I’m reading Jaron Lanier’s You are not a gadget, at the moment. Lanier is one of the original geeky gurus of the net. He’s taking stock and having a think about where we are going in this book, which he calls a manifesto. I haven’t got to the manifesto part yet, but his musings are…

  • Double Speak

    British Gas are advertising price cuts at the moment. A concerned voice says, “We understand how difficult things have been, so we are making things easier for you by cutting our prices.” This is not quite true. What they mean is that the price of Gas has come dow to the point where they ca’t…