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Someone should check if maybe one of those monkeys actually has typed out Shakespeare’s Complete Works. #informationcircus
What Is the Information Circus?
The information circus is my way of mapping an understanding of how the basic elements of our daily existence in language created spaces behave and how they are related to one another. Schematically: A lot of the problems with “news” aka “social media” are happening along the Phenomena -> Data -> Information path. It used to be very expensive to make Phenomena into Data, so we thought Information was really valuable, which turns out to not necessarily be the case.
Breaking News
In a stunning act of national unity, the people of the United States seem to be realizing, all at once, that what everybody had previously thought was “The News” was in actual fact “Social Media” the whole time! The thing that made it look different, back then, is that the “social” part of “social media” was made up of powerful upper class information entities, either businesses or people, who were the media—or more correctly, who were the message—but now the social part is made up of everybody (anybody) who can understand the channel, and who, it is increasingly apparent, are not necessarily guaranteed to be the channel owners.
Ziggy suggests reticence.
My favorite UI take away from WWDC 2021 is Universal Control.
Having the work surface presented as a continuous space in which one interacts with its contents using any device—rather than interacting with content in device-specific sub-spaces or fractional replicants of the work surface—is subtle and brilliant. This continuous space is what Apple services is really selling, devices are just the access dongles to get at it even more creative blue sky. :-)
Mango insists, maybe.
Tenet Consulting, Inc.
”We tell you what already happened before it already happened again, like we said.”
So What Can We Expect
There will be a lot of references to the arts, philosophy, culture, and science, via quotes and tropes, all amid overwrought passages awash with fusillades of adverbs, juvenile prepositional snipe hunting, and semantic antics worthy of carnival barkers and crypto brokers—all alluding to some genius yet hidden. Oooh. Rusty: Look, it’s not in my nature to be mysterious. But I can’t talk about it and I can’t talk about why.
What This Is All About
Well, right now it is all about this delicious orzo salad.