Commons.

Sometimes I think of my friends as a vector space over GF(2) where each entry defines what we have in common.

  • email, phone and other providers
  • clothing with more or less witty slogans
  • discount cards for transport, food and culture
  • (the fact that we have an) employer
  • brand and operating system of our computers and phones
  • number, kind and brand of our bicycles
  • countries we've visited and lived in
  • passion for lists

Nosismus.

I wish everyone well, but there is a very specific set of people in my mind.

What's in a Year?

What if a culture without calendars had won?

Too High.

Is there a way to get back the naivety, the innocence, the wine, the confidence, the longing, the first time reading a philosophy paper, the chaos and the second-hand couches of those nights?

Negative Technofreedom.

My guess would be that in future society it will be almost a privelege to be permitted to work without computer.

Johan Galtung: Computer Society, Present and Future (1984)