Future
I’ve been wondering to what extent my descendants 100 years from now will look back on recordings of me and think not that my voice sounds funny but that my vocabulary does. Then I turned this thought over, wondering if anybody alive 100 years ago ever closed their net around that same butterfly of an [...]
Yesterday’s New York Times Magazine has taken The Next City as its theme; they’ve focused the entire issue on urban issues and trends, including an interview with visionary Bogotá mayor Enrique Peñalosa.
I post often about São Paulo, mostly about how it’s a city portending the worst of urban trends. It turns out there’s a bright side.
Norman Gall gets optimistic in The Wilson Quarterly:
São Paulo is a great city, but not a beautiful city. The soot-darkened buildings of its old business center [...]
Charlie Stross, on Japan:
They’ve got our future, damn it.
They’ve got express trains that run on time and accelerate so fast they push you back into your seat like an airliner on take-off. They’ve got skyscrapers with running lights, looming out of the sodium-lit evening haze — a skyline just like the famous nighttime scene [...]
Google’s Chief Internet Evangelist, Vint Cerf, on the future of the internet in developing countries:
When Google News for mobile devices became available in French, the biggest spike in usage outside France was in Côte d’Ivoire.
In the developing world especially, the proliferation of mobile devices and improvements in the ability of those devices to access the [...]
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