I confess to have got a kick, at a presentation I gave in Berlin in November, out of the impromptu one-man re-enactment of the scene from Jerry McGuire, yes that scene,
Here it comes:
The unexpected
Burst of inspiration
Ideas tumble in, tumbling
Like waves crashing
On familiar shores
You drown in sheer joy
Of understanding
Here it comes:
The unexpected
Moment of destruction
You have to feel sorry for Charles Babbage, whose 1830’s designs for the analytics engine were never to be realised in his own lifetime. As well as Augusta Ada King, Countess of
Archetypes
19 Feb 2018
Do we, can we
Choose the archetypes that we become
At what point loss
Or is it far beneath the depths of our existence
That we must somehow plumb
I need to thank Aleks Krotoski for bringing Kranzberg’s first law to my attention: “Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral.” A stark example, though by no means the