World as Database
I. The idea that the world is a database has a more distinguished provenance than just Google Earth. Back in the 1960s, R. Buckminster “Bucky” Fully proposed the Geosphere, a scale model of the world,...
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Keynote for the Digital Fair of the Australian College of Educators, Geelong Grammar School, 16 April 2009. The full text of the talk is here.
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I: Baby Books Forty-eight years ago, when my mother was pregnant with me, her friends and family threw her a baby shower. Among the gifts, she received a satin-covered ‘Baby Book’, with spaces to...
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I During my first visit to Sydney, in 1997, I made arrangements to catch up with some friends living in Drummoyne. I was staying at the Novotel Darling Harbour, so we arranged to meet in front of the...
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