The best way to understand man is by creating him | José Negrete Martínez

alan kay once said it slightly different:

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Keyboards are inefficient for two reasons: they do not exploit the redundancy in normal language; and they waste the fine analogue capabilities of the user's fingers ...Dasher can be driven by continuous gestures, and single-finger writing speeds exceeding 35 words per minute can be achieved | dasher

a communication system based on information theory

kind of silent anniversary tomorrow in washington dc

4:00 PM Security Portals Open in Back Terrace | darpa

waiting for a report from charles herzfeld ...

edit: conversation with darpa: what streaming? what documentation? i could come by to record dick cheney's or gordon england's speak, these now and then secretaries of defense, but what the dickens could they tell me about the agency 50 years ago? i want jack ruina and the likes! sounds like they missed a window of opportunity - or coudn't convince people who would have made the whole event - interesting.