This post is part of my attempt at Bloganuary 2024. Today's prompt is:
Do you spend more time thinking about the future or the past? Why?
I probably spend similar amounts of time and energy on both. And that is: a lot!
Thinking about the past
I'm nostalgic as anything. I play retro video games

time, bloganuary 2024, bloganuary, nostalgia, futurism

When the COVID-19 lockdown forced many offices to close and their staff to work remotely, some of us saw what was unfolding as an... opportunity in disguise. Instead of the slow-but-steady decentralisation of work that's very slowly become possible (technically, administratively, and politically) automattic, telecommuting, employment, work, job, teleworking, covid-19, futurism

A recent observation by Phil Gyford reminded me of a recurring thought I've had. He wrote:
While being driven around England it struck me that humans are currently like the filling in a sandwich between one slice of machine - the satnav - and another - the car. Before the invention of sandwiches t

standards, ai, programming, futurism

There's a story that young network engineers are sometimes told to help them understand network stacks and/or the OSI model, and it goes something like this:
You overhear a conversation between two scientists on the subject of some topic relevant to thier field of interest. But as you listen chatbots, artificial intelligence, google, technology, futurism, news