Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community
Scott submits this nice link to my discussion area with reference to the 'Drugs that Speak to You' item from yesterday. Bruce Sterling, a noted science fiction and cyberpunk author discusses the concept of gizmos and spimes, objects of the sort described in the other story. Spimes, especially, are interesting; you buy then (where else?) at the drug store, and thereafter the spimes follow you. " The most important thing to know about Spimes is that they are precisely located in space and time. They have histories. They are recorded, tracked, inventoried, and always associated with a story. They are searchable, like Google. You can think of Spimes as being auto-Googling objects." I've mentioned Sterling before in this context: in his novel Distraction you can find the concept of a hotel that teaches you how to build itself.

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