Zeitgeist
So the New York trip was awesome, the coda a slow-roasting hell in which I continue to broil.
In an effort to escape I’m taking a friend’s non-verbal reading advice and re-reading “Pattern Recognition”, by William Gibson. I had forgotten that this book contains so much that is of interest to me: viral marketing campaigns, new media, new media distribution channels, emergent communities… really a solid book written by a novelist who is enjoying the height of his powers. Excellent stuff.
In my head is this project the design for which I have yet to construct: I want to buy a sheet of posterboard, lots of yarn, and some index cards. On the index cards I’ll imprint certain concepts that interest me (the aforementioned, but this time adding reality, one of the things I’m into, artificial intelligence, games, computability, usability, self-realization and maybe some others) and try and mind-map this thing that has been banging around in my head for some time now. Where the hell am I going? What am I doing now that moves me in that direction? Basically, what do I want to do post-programmer?