The problem with Wikipedia is that it only works in practice. In theory, it can never work.
– Miikka Ryokas computer science student quoted in the NY Times.
Hat tip: John Winsor
The underground will never work
A nice example of terrible prediction.
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Pointless, again
Grant and Tom both dispute this article by Lance Ulanoff: MySpace, Second Life, and Twitter Are Doomed. Ulanoff begins: Don’t get too attached to MySpace.
YouTube and the end of the world as we know it
I guess that “It will lead to chaos” counts as a high-energy varitation of “it will never work” which means this item becomes my second
It’ll never work
Inspired by a post by Earl Mardle I’ve added a new category to this blog, It’ll Never Work. I’ll use it to flag stories about
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Uncertainty
Clay Shirky has offered these perceptive tweets about the Occupy Wall Street protests. People complaining that #OWS don’t have coherent demands haven’t noticed that US response to the crisis isn’t
8 October 2011
Walking backwards into the future
How we experience time can profoundly change how we experience life
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links for 2011-04-07
Collaboration Drives Human Evolution « Creativity & Innovation "Humans are not special because of their big brains. That’s not the reason we can build rocket ships–no individual can. We have
7 April 2011
What do you want?
Viv blogs about Peter Block’s The Answer to How is Yes. She lists some of the many “how?” questions that show up at meetings and argues that they often take
29 May 2011
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