Nobody wants to read a blog post like „Why this blog?“, I know. There can a subtle, distressing desperation in such a justification. Plus I’m afraid of the cold, sudden blog death, where all of the sudden, there are no more texts. Maybe some „I’m very busy at the moment, will come back soon“-post, and then never something else. Writing is a lot of work. Why engaging in it, and especially sharing it online, with other people?
This is a writing project about science, technology and the future. I have to write about these topics. Well, nobody is making me to, I've put this on myself. But still, I have to. Technology is progressing fast. Like, really fast. And our lives are shaken.
[list Technology advancements here]
artificial intelligence
energy?
list here a lot of interesting things
small story on how fast this all goes. (maybe link article 2011 Hermine books and magic
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/02/14/the-information
[And drop that youtube link (how to embed this?)]
list here a lot of interesting things
small story on how fast this all goes. (maybe link article 2011 Hermine books and magic
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/02/14/the-information
[And drop that youtube link (how to embed this?)]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVbkHBpT2Qg
Why create something, one could always ask. There is this one poem by Ezra Pound, which is making me shiver every time I read it:
And the days are not full enough
And the nights are not full enough
And life slips by like a field mouse
Not shaking the grass
Uhhh. Well, that would be too bad. If life slips by like a field mouse.
I’ll just start writing and let this grow naturally. For now, that’s enough.
Some words about me. My name is Martin, I live an average millennial (*MonkeyCoveringItsEyes*) life in an average city in an average country somewhere in Europe. I’m pursuing my PhD in the area of technology assessment with a focus on renewable energy. This is also kind of a writing exercise in preparation of my thesis (which will hopefully not look as dizzying as this here, but scientists say (whenever I’ll say „scientists say“, what I mean in reality (oh, this is also a good place to drop the disclaimer I kinda like nested brackets, I use those heavily, sorry)) there is a writing organ which you have to train, so I train). Excuse my English, it won’t be perfect all the time, I’m not a native speaker. Perfection can impede progress. I’ll post when something is good enough. This is also a good-enough exercise.
[drop soundcloud link and other private things? too much bragging in this humbleness?]
In the meantime, you could have a look at my all time internet favorites (no, seriously):
Wait but why
xkcd [insert links here]
My favorite subreddits:
https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheOverload/
https://www.reddit.com/r/DinosaurDrawings/
https://www.reddit.com/r/catpranks/
My favorite subreddits:
https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheOverload/
https://www.reddit.com/r/DinosaurDrawings/
https://www.reddit.com/r/catpranks/
About the name:
The blog will center a lot around what’s happening in the digital world. In the Python programming language, you can import certain packages to beef-up the core functionality. There is a famous xkcd joke on this:
And you can also import the future in Python. Not the future of course, but Pythons future, i.e. the functionality of later versions. It’s a silly title. So there you have a reason for the title.
[Ideas for later]
Nested logics:
Tell that I wrote this in advance, post a picture of what I intend to write about, and let them see how well that worked…
Made a screen shot of the planned topics and they'd be able to see if I was on time
| Estimated Time | Status | Estimated Date | |
| Layout |
2h
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20.05.2016
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| Why are you doing this? |
5h
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20.05.2016
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| The future, in the past. |
1h
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01.06.2016
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| The past, in the future. |
2h
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10.06.2016
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| Technology foresight - Moore’s „law“ and other methods |
4h
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22.07.2016
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| Artificial Intelligence and other scary future things |
3h
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05.08.2016
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| Complex Systems |
5h
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07.10.2016
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| Contraction of sciences |
3h
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| Decision theory and poor judgment |
6h
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15.11.2016
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| Underestimation of the speed of the current transformation? (It’s not only computers, you know) |
5h
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| Fatalism - will things soon be completely different anyway? |
2h
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| Short Story (several parts) |
20h
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| Why is it so hard to pick up programming? |
5h
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posting it actually incomplete?
Will people get this?!Mention "What About" already