"Open Sources" is exactly the right book for your purposes, at least in my opinion. Its a collection of essays and articles on the subject, and provides not only one interpretation of the open source vision common to all authors in this book.
Better still, remaining in the spirit of the texts inside , the whole book is available for free from the O`Reilly site.
Wow ! Thanks a lot firstly for the great links, and second, for the mentioning of "Cosmonaut Keep"
by Ken MacLeod. I saw a review of this in early 2001 (AFAIC) and put it in my bookmarks, but these went lost. I have been searching for the name of the author and the title for a long time now, and finaly I found it!
Besides, these few examples prove (at least for me) that SF is still one of the most progressive "stylistic devices" if I may call them so, for discussing changes in the way societies behave.
Keep up posting good stuff like this, so that the signal/noise ratio does not drop
too far down;)
You are right about one thing: What he is saying is a kind of paradoxon: He predicts that the future will be unpredictable.
Thats all he really does. Everything else he says in his paper just serves to underline that fact.
And just for that basic assumption he makes, he shows that he really has something to say about the future. Or did you com across anybody in the "business of predicting the future" who was as honest as Mr. Vinge ?
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"Open Sources" is exactly the right book for your purposes, at least in my opinion. Its a collection of essays and articles on the subject, and provides not only one interpretation of the open source vision common to all authors in this book.
Better still, remaining in the spirit of the texts inside , the whole book is available for free from the O`Reilly site.
Get it here.
Please moderate the parent posting up, because this short story by the same author could give the people a real idea what to expect from the book.
Yes, you will have access to their calenders if they allow it. Its all mentioned in the feature summary, which is here
It is going to have the ability to overlay calenders from different users.
Wow ! Thanks a lot firstly for the great links, and second, for the mentioning of "Cosmonaut Keep"
;)
by Ken MacLeod. I saw a review of this in early 2001 (AFAIC) and put it in my bookmarks, but these went lost. I have been searching for the name of the author and the title for a long time now, and finaly I found it!
Besides, these few examples prove (at least for me) that SF is still one of the most progressive "stylistic devices" if I may call them so, for discussing changes in the way societies behave.
Keep up posting good stuff like this, so that the signal/noise ratio does not drop
too far down
It seems like you did not get his point.
You are right about one thing: What he is saying is a kind of paradoxon: He predicts that the future will be unpredictable.
Thats all he really does. Everything else he says in his paper just serves to underline that fact.
And just for that basic assumption he makes, he shows that he really has something to say about the future. Or did you com across anybody in the "business of predicting the future" who was as honest as Mr. Vinge ?