Comments on: G’DAY WORLD #271 – Vernor Vinge, SF Author Extraordinaire

By: Jodie Miners

Jodie Miners — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 00:30:27 +0000

One of my concerns about the fictional vision of the singularity and especially with this idea of seing what you want through the contact lenses is what about Art, Architecture and Creative expression. This is why I will never believe that we will all become this one society controlled (willingly or otherwise) by computers. If there were plain buildings that all I had to do was imaging and place my own skin over it to see what I wanted, what a boring world that would be – being limited to my imagination, without the benefit of everyone else’s imagination also. How else would we get the benefit of great buildings like the guggenheim at Bilbao, the Sydney Opera House, the new stadium in Bejing etc… Art, Architecture and Creative expression will always rule over anything us geeks can think up.

By: janotte

janotte — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 04:59:47 +0000

Ah yes – of course!

Another great episode of Nap101 BTW.

By: Cameron Reilly

Cameron Reilly — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 21:37:39 +0000

haha yeah Janotte, I guess I’m saying “ado” but I’m just accenting it without noticing! Too much Napoleon in me.

By: janotte

janotte — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 16:49:10 +0000

Hi Cam,

I often hear you say ‘Without further adieu.’

Do you mean this as a joke?

‘Without further goodbye’ is meaningless while ‘without further mucking about’ or ‘Without further ado’ has a clear meaning.

Just wondering if it’s a joke lost on me or something else (like people saying ‘on tender hooks’ when they mean ‘on tenter hooks’)?

Cheers