I can do web, comic books, macrame, art.
We tend to use a new technology to do an old task more efficiently. We pave the cow paths.
Before the iPhone, cyberspace was something you went to your desk to visit. Now cyberspace is something you carry in your pocket.
The goal of forecasting is not to predict the future but to tell you what you need to know to take meaningful action in the present
I think it was Samuel Johnson who said, "There are two kinds of information in this world: that what you know and that what you know where to get. " The tools help the latter, and that's what keeps us from going nuts. The sense of overload comes from the gap between that sudden jump in volume (of information) and the tools we have to make sense of it.
I think of futurists as people who have a particular attitude about the future. They're advocates for a certain kind of outcome. As a forecaster I am something very different. I am a professional bystander. I have opinions about the future, of course. But my whole posture is to be detached and to identify what I think will happen and not allow my judgments of what should happen to get involved.
Never mistake a clear view for a short distance.
If you want more effective programmers, you will discover that they should not waste their time debugging, they should not introduce the bugs to start with.
I'm a lucky guy. No question.
For me, Modern Warfare 3 's plot makes its signature turn around the bend when Russia invades Europe. As in, all of it. Simultaneously. Now, I've never invaded Europe, except for that one time, but I would think that's a project you might want to stagger out a bit if you haven't forged an alliance with any galactic empires lately.
Java isn't platform independent; it is a platform