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the death of the “car analogy”

Posted on 24 January 2018 By antipaucity No Comments on the death of the “car analogy”

With the rise of the “sharing economy”, and companies like Lyft proudly declaring 250,000 people ditched cars in favor of ride-sharing, what will be the fate of the venerable “car analogy“? Heck, what was the common analogy before cars? How will language and colloquial usage change with the [eventual] death of the car as the…

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hmmm

on ads

Posted on 3 March 20169 March 2016 By antipaucity 6 Comments on on ads

My colleague Sheila wrote a great, short piece on LinkedIn about ads recently. And this is what I commented: I held off for years in installing ad blockers/reducers. But I have finally had to cave – been running Flash in “ask-only” mode for months now, and just added a couple blocker/reducer extensions to Chrome recently…

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commentary, complaint, insights, technical

zombie crime

Posted on 1 December 201223 August 2017 By antipaucity No Comments on zombie crime

If zombie apocalypse stories could be true, there should be no crime (other than the zombies’ havoc-wreaking). In a world where the dead are rising and attacking anything living (in the process making those attacked zombies, too), ‘normal’ crime should cease: folks’d be too busy trying to stay alive to be worried about anything else.

commentary, huh, ideas

asymmetric communication – the facebookification of society

Posted on 19 September 201220 September 2012 By antipaucity 7 Comments on asymmetric communication – the facebookification of society

The first communication method we ever learn is the interaction between ourselves as infants and our caregivers (just to cover the possibility of a parent, foster parent, day care worker, orphanage employee, etc). They speak to us, hold us, and in general take care of us while we cry, burp, laugh, and gurgle in response….

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