Reed's Ruminations: The Past, Present, and Future
Reflections on science, technology, and computing — leavened by personal experience
Category: Weblogs
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Remembering Internet Dogs
An iconic cartoon by Peter Steiner, which appeared in The New Yorker in 1993, captured the nature of the nascent Internet. It shows a dog seated at a computer, remarking to a second dog on the floor that, “On the Internet, nobody knows you are a dog.” Not only does the Internet now know you…
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Blogging at CACM Also
Several of us will be blogging for the new CACM web site, offering perspectives on science policy, research, computing technology and societal implications. Look for me at the CACM web site soon, under Blog@CACM. (And yes, I will continue to blog on Reed’s Ruminations at www.hpcdan.org as well.)
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Twitter and Tweets
I haven’t internalized the social ramifications of Twitter yet. My first reaction was “yet another time waster,” but then I thought about geolocation, social networks and the recent tragedy at Virginia Tech.