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Warranty

“It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future.”(1) The foolishness of these words might seem obvious, but there is a case to be made that it is indeed possible to predict the future. In his address to the Royal Institution (24/01/1902) entitled The Discovery of the Future, H.G. …

The Flattening of the Internet

Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts… A graphic representation of data abstracted from banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations …

Temporarily moving my home recording studio, I found myself sorting through a mass of tangled cables and leads, some of which I have owned for more than 30 years. This started me thinking again about connectors, of which there are a huge variety, some of which persist and others have …