Funny to get a news feed indicating that “nowtopia” had popped up in an essay over on Counterpunch, written by a Torontoan… it’s a lovely essay, and flattering to see nowtopia becoming a useful noun already! In May 2008 Nowtopia was published. It’s been a year and a quarter and I’ve had the great fortune [...]
I live in San Francisco’s Mission District, going back to 1987. It’s a neighborhood undergoing intense gentrification, even with the current economic and housing crises. Sometimes I think with all the cafes and bars and trendy new galleries and boutiques that we’re sliding towards becoming a Greenwich Village. There are different populations living here, among [...]
IBM’s latest slogan is “We can make a smarter world†or something idiotic like that… here, again, in a dumb marketing campaign we immediately confront the basic problem. The world is an incredible intelligence already. We humans really don’t understand it well at all… It might make sense for a corporation like IBM to invite [...]
