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- Just the Links … I mean sure, I read it because of the Star Trek but what really caught my attention was the attempt at breaking out the affect of Star Trek …
- A Different Strategy, The Sanest Choice In An Insane World … We’ll talk about influence, relationships, communication, strategy -- basically most of the software development stuff in this newsletter -- and because it’s me probably also some tortured Star …
- The Collapse of Form … I (and others) make jokes about the Star Trek episode where the Enterprise encounters tamarians, who speak only in metaphor 5 (“Shaka, when the walls fell”, “Temba, his …
- Efficiency Gains; I Understand You, But Could Never Be You; Can You Teach A Machine To Be Human? … This is the bit where I include a Star Trek reference. So much of science fiction involving robots is about trying to understand or become human, I imagine …
- Context is King; Explicit People Personality Preferences; OS Licensing, but Different … to Eeyore; That tank that really liked blowing stuff up but, in true Star Trek style, could totally be logic-puzzled/argued into doing something super dumb; The …
- The Great Social Network Heist … A Proposal for News Organization Mastodon Servers and More ( archive.is ), me, 28 October, 2022 ↩︎ Star Trek: Website - The new home of r/StarTrek, r/DaystromInstitute, and sigh …
- Not Up and To The Right; Just Deeper, Really; Better Wording Faster; Tools for Remembering; A Centaur for Caring?; Of Course They're Art … create a version of computer, that would answer questions about the Star Trek universe. Which feels like it could be pretty... awesome, if it worked? Or worked well …
- The Torment Nexus Section; RFPs, man. RFPs. … I promise to make no Star Trek jokes in this bit, but realize now that after having laid that particular Riker's Phaser on the conference room table …
- Anything But The Internet: Shakespeare; Stupid Mental Health Walks; You Can Just Ask For What You Deserve … 1.3 You can just ask for what you deserve This is going to be a Star Trek bit, I'm afraid. There's this new series, Lower …
- Business models that make you cry; Long-range microwave networks; Home servers; Twitter, But Angrier And In VR … whales -- not because we're frustrated marine biologists or fans of a certain Star Trek film -- but because we know about whales from gambling , a highly regulated industry …
- What is it like to be a PlayStation, Netflix/Everyone Else Edition … Paramount+'s app is shit, but if I care enough about Star Trek, sure, I'll pay. HBO Max's app is terrible and likewise. You don't …
- We choose not to do the harder thing … One thing, just one thing that would be interesting about, say, a Star Trek Show That Isn’t Set In Starfleet And Is Mainly About Civilians, But Isn …
- PROMPT-LE … do style transfer on voices , which in other words is that episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation where Data plays back Picard's voice and bypasses security …
- Dan, really, are you even reading what you're typing here? … tv show and a few episodes in they finally understood it. (It was Star Trek). But the way they described it, that it's got a good rep …
- Dan Hon is Away, Still … Or Star Trek: Amazon Fulfilment Warehouse. Or Star Trek: Knowledge Worker. (An aside: Tom and I were also talking about how stupidly surprisingly awesome Tom Cruise's Oblivion …
- Form Factors, Link Better … Then our devices got bigger. ( Dave Blass, Star Trek: Picard production designer ) Caught my attention because: well, it's Star Trek, duh, and it's a nice visual …
- Oxo Grips for Software and Vexatious Litigation … Here's your Star Trek reference for the day: the Valve Steam Deck is actually a Padd , see it "in a triple head Windows 10 configuration, reviewing my …
- News you can use; the Finocene … Well, what's a tentpole? Do they need one? CBS All Access took a gamble on throwing a bunch of money at an existing property, Star Trek, to …
- The Wind That Blew The Preschoolers Away … Plants Jörg Hillebrand is a fan of Star Trek in the way that I'm a fan of being alive. Hillebrand has a stupendous eye to detail, which …
- Words and how to use them to achieve and convey your intended effect and meaning? … It started pretty dumb, with Terry Matalas, the showrunner for Star Trek: Picard season 2 pointing out that shuttles still don't have cup holders in the 25th …
- Forget about infrastructure, I just want my tea … Invariably there's this whole issue of We Should Be Using Shared Services Across The Enterprise and no I will not make a Star Trek joke, at least …
- Fifteen Minutes Or Less … Designing Speech Interactions from the Imagined Ideal of Star Trek [1] is a paper presented at CHI 2021 and exactly what it says on the tin, so be …
- But Where (Or How) Do You Start? … Computers that talk and gender The Computer’s Voice - From Star Trek to Siri is a book by Liz W. Faber. Caught my attention because : deconstructing the voices …
- Mist, everywhere … archiveofourown.org , of course) That time Cheradenine Zakalwe recruited Q . (No, not the Star Trek Q. The one with the Aston Martins). That time someone crossed the Culture …
- An amateur with opinions … 1.0 Some things that caught my attention I’ll just get this out of the way and point to a few Star Trek things: The inimitable Lou …
- Little things; Snow Crashing Ch 14 part 1 … I made a bunch of Star Trek: The Next Generation jokes again, wherein the Enterprise repeatedly gets stranded due to: certificate expiration , a botched cloud upgrade , a security …
- Snow Crash Ch13, Part 2; Everything Is Political … There’s the Star Trek tricorder (which I hadn’t heard of before) and there’s Snow Crash. But most persuasively to me is the combination of a …
- Do you have WiFi? / Liars are bad … do you think they name conference rooms in Star Trek?] LA FORGE: ... we’ve successfully purged and restored the main computer by using a backup restored from the …
- Snow Crash’s Graveyard Daemons and … Here is a paper about ethical subroutines in Star Trek, titled “ Evil Doctor, Ethical Android: Star Trek’s Instantiation of Consciousness in Subroutines ” A Twitter account that I …
- Snow Crashing … It is, I’m sorry to say, Yet Another Star Trek thing. I think in the last year or so I’ve introduced Eldest (who’ll be seven …
- Snow Crashing … 1.2 Combadges Honestly I am not sure at the moment how many people I am losing because of the constant Star Trek references, but in some respect …
- Breaking the rules … Jason Kottke the idea of Apple’s Airpods as augmented reality wearable computers , and linked to s07e04 of this newsletter , with the tidbit about Star Trek TNG combadges …
- Do Better … Given current phone/camera trends (or, I should say, current camera/phone trends), the Star Trek: TNG combadge is unrealistic because by the 24th century it'd be …
- My So-Called Content … car, our first woman, ponytail, appears to grab an I swear-to-god Star Trek Next Generation phaser (neatly labeled AUDI DESIGN) that was clipped to the side …
- Very Little Gravitas … The Next Generation character. “Hmm”. (For the record, I am condensing this meeting and straight-up making up a lot of it, especially the Star Trek parts, to …
- Probably Not Gutless … quite frankly, too-deep analysis of the technical and economic infrastructure of the Star Trek: Next Generation universe, to opinions about Digital Transformation In Government, to What The …
- Things That Have Caught My Attention … then". * Let's just accept that I was reading up on a specific Star Trek: The Next Generation episode and happened to find that Data made the claim …
- Peek Mode … You Missed It (sorry), a thread on Twitter about how some people think Star Trek: The Next Generation is The Best Thing about Voice User Interface Design and …
- Division by Infinity … Discovery! Fuck the continuity haters! Also, an amazing throwaway line about the fragility of Star Trek's post-scarcity economy at that time by Captain Lorca: "[of course …
- Earl Grey, Hot (again, probably) … how would the computers in Star Trek: The Next Generation really work? And in particular, how do the replicators work? Take this typical exchange: PICARD walks up to …
- Random Walk; Black Design … The Starship Enterprise; How Do You Solve A Problem Like Digital? because a) Star Trek and b) horrible digital campaigns - Episode One Hundred and Eighty One: It's …
- You Want To Classify Prime Numbers Now? … Twitte procrastination today was: - what if the cookie notices required by that goddamn stupid EU law still existed in the Star Trek: Next Generation universe: Dan Hon is …
- Gigawatt Laser Array … Where My Heart Will Take Me by Russell Watson, also known as That Goddamn Theme Song To Star Trek: Enterprise[0] which hey is actually an appropriate sappy …
- Unordered List … the US Navy's Total Ship[board] Computing Environment, which is about as Star Trek: The Next Generation as it seems. Here's a Foxtrot Alpha article (Trigger …
- The Product Wars; Emergency _________ Hologram … For example, there's a distinct lack of robosurgery in the Star Trek universe. Star Trek's 24th Century seems to exist in some weird state of Oregon …
- Hello babies; Post-Apocalyptic Duolingo; Recreational Capitalism … a food-replacement startup that's being touted as a bit like the Star Trek era food pill. Note that Rhine doesn't say that he doesn't …
- The Puppyslugs; Car Phishing; 24th Century Procurement … I'm re-reading the Star Trek: Next Generation Technical Manual[0, 1], and there were a couple of things that jumped out at me: a) the Galaxy …
- What Apple Is … X side is the "pro" side and iOS is the "24th Century Computing" Star Trek: The Next Generation "computing for the rest of us" side, with the trade …
- The Internet Of Your Economic System Of Choice; Little Red Spot; Stuck
- Internet of Capitalism; Internet of Things Winter; Transmogrify … For what it's worth, it's unclear whether we'll ever get to a utopian, Star Trek-ian post scarcity economy, or whether we'll find a …
- The Starship Enterprise; How Do You Solve A Problem Like Digital? … Or Star Trek: Amazon Fulfilment Warehouse. Or Star Trek: Knowledge Worker. (An aside: Tom and I were also talking about how stupidly surprisingly awesome Tom Cruise's Oblivion …
- Up To Code; Science Fictional Network Security; Notes on Infrastructure; Response; 2014 (5) … I mean, there's that episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation where the Romulans kidnap Geordi and brainwash him through his convenient VISOR interface[1], but they …
- Dark Value; The Latest Attempt; Five Eyes … The type of home automation and smartness that we're talking about is something that we've seen since the late 80s with, you've guessed it, Star …
- The Material (4); More Ways Of Seeing … a humane and relatable way? Toyota Prius cars are renowned for showing almost Star Trek: The Next Generation style Engineering Room thrumming diagrams of their warp cores providing …
- If You Want To Make Products; Enterprise Driven Software Development; Odds … It's Yet Another Star Trek: The Next Generation bit. So here's a new model for software development that can become a cult and a whole bunch …
- Structure; The Thing About People … I can say, for example, that I'm a fan of Star Trek: The Next Generation and I could write a whole screeds about what I like and …
- Taking Stock; And The New … The Sustainable Web; TaskRabbit; Airbnb; Cities Then there's the fact that every now and then I'd fixate on Star Trek: The Next Generation and pick apart …
- That Most Killer Of Deals; Need To Know
- Solid 2 of 2; Requests - GOV.UK 2018; Next … And so his four step roadmap to a genuine Star Trek replicator starts with computers that can make machines, to machines that can make more machines, to codes …
- The Pre-Post-Scarcity Economy; Cities … the *framework* of TaskRabbit seems like it would be fine in the world of Star Trek, or any post-scarcity economy (cf the Ken McLeod Star Fraction universe …
- Computer Says No, Snow Crashing … Of course, by this time, Daemon is fabbing a whole bunch of high-spec Glasses, and we've entered into the slightly more Star Trek toy universe. The …
- We Have Always Been At War; Our Independence Day; Spimes, Duh … SCADA implemented in C and it's trivial to bring the system down. Star Trek but the Borg base operating system runs on C and you can easily …
- Why Is This So Hard; Dependency; Chief Empathy Officer … retrospect, the amount of fun had at the expense of Counsellor Troi in Star Trek: The Next Generation was probably misplaced. Yes, she was the one who explained …
- IP and the Federation; A Thousand Digital Hubs In Your Pocket; Your Server Recommends … And thus I humbly birth Rikernomics and how it breaks the post-scarcity world of Star Trek. [1] http://www.princeton.edu/~pkrugman/interstellar.pdf -- 2.0 A …
- On Creativity; But What Is The User Need; Universal Service … And if I may round off with a Star Trek analogy, no, they don't pay for computing resource to deploy their new exciting cloud-based customer relationship …
- On Advertising; On Schmidt; Shorts … In the end, Schmidt appears to be grasping for some sort of post-scarcity Star Trek utopia, but doesn't realize that the embarrassment of riches he's …
- The Machine; Route Around Failure; The Most Expensive Selfie … Look, here's another Star Trek reference. "Computer," in Star Trek: The Next Generation is a singular thing. Sure, its processing and transport might be distributed, but it …
- Infrastructure, The LCARS App Store … It's this kind of thing that you need an updated technical manual for.[1] [1] http://www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-The-Next-Generation/dp/0671704273 3 …
- Literal Tone Of Voice, Presence, Networks, Applescript … Again, running with my Star Trek as stand-in for the future theme, the presumption is that everyone is always available, online and connected. That someone wouldn't …
- Not Trying Is A Signal, Peak Game, EasyHard, SnapChat … Until you actually sit down and deconstruct all the dialogue that the actors have in conversation with the Computer on Star Trek: TNG (which is a pretty good …
- Attention, Star Trek and Cars … Star Trek's Computing Infrastructure One of my friends tweeted the phrase "Nationalise Twitter" the other day and in an example of what I would previously describe as …
- The Cult of Making, Shooting Fish In Jean Michel Jarre's Barrel … Back tomorrow, with potentially a piece about the computing architecture of the Star Trek: The Next Generation universe, because geek.
- Rate All The Things … Because a business plan implies more of a route toward an end goal, and I don't see the utopian ideals of Star Trek's Federation supported by …
- Dreaming Invisible Dreams … TNG com badge (see how Vocera[5], in the healthcare space, has been doing very well with Star Trek style hands-free com badges with communications routing), to …