'Human Calculator' Says It's Time for the Human Calendar

Time for Change
'Human calculator' says
It's time for human calendar
Monday, December 18, 2000
By Michael Y. Park?? NEW YORK ? Twenty-eight days hath September, April, June and November. And December, January, February. Heck, throw the rest of the year in there too. Including that 13th month

News, Views and a Silicon Valley Diary Housing prices are a trailing economic indicator, based on wealth and perceived wealth and prospects for the future. When Silicon Valley and the Bay Area return to rationality, it's going to be very, very ugly for the people who bought at the top of this insane market.

Global Trends 2015: A Dialogue About the Future With Nongovernment Experts In undertaking this comprehensive analysis, the NIC worked actively with a range of nongovernmental institutions and experts. We began the analysis with two workshops focusing on drivers and alternative futures, as the appendix describes. Subsequently, numerous specialists from academia and the private sector contributed to every aspect of the study, from demographics to developments in science and technology, from the global arms market to implications for the United States. Many of the judgments in this paper derive from our efforts to distill the diverse views expressed at these conferences or related workshops. Major conferences cosponsored by the NIC with other government and private centers in support of Global Trends 2015 included:

* Foreign Reactions to the Revolution in Military Affairs (Georgetown University).

* Evolution of the Nation-State (University of Maryland).

* Trends in Democratization (CIA and academic experts).

* American Economic Power (Industry & Trade Strategies, San Francisco, CA).

* Transformation of Defense Industries (International Institute for Strategic Studies, London, UK).

* Alternative Futures in War and Conflict (Defense Intelligence Agency and Naval War College, Newport, RI, and CIA).

Slashdot | Censorware to be Mandatory in Schools, Libraries It was supposed to be done by September 30, but Congress finally finished its budget for this year. Because it works best with our sometimes-bizarre legislative system, this year, like every year, hundreds of unrelated measures were rolled up into one massive package and crammed through the door. Your grandchildren may look up at you with a puzzled expression, fifty years from now, and say "grampa" (or gramma), "did you really use an unfiltered internet, back in the olden days? Wasn't that scary? How did you ever survive with all that porn jumping out at you?" If that happens, just sigh, and think back to the olden days -- December?2000 -- before censorware became mandatory in public institutions nationwide.

News, Views and a Silicon Valley Diary What AOL is assembling via its instant messaging system is nothing short of a new communications network in which it not only owns the center but the phone book, too. The value of this is incalcuable. And a system of this sort should be open to other players.

News, Views and a Silicon Valley Diary The Federal Communications Commission wanted to open up pieces of the radio spectrum for low-power stations. But the existing broadcasters, increasingly part of massive chains without the least interest in the communities they "serve," loathe the idea of competition from stations that actually care about their back yard. The threat, you see, was that people would actually get a choice instead of the consistent marketing-driven pablum on today's airwaves.

Internet Wasteland: A to L Internet Wasteland: Companies A to L

News, Views and a Silicon Valley Diary One of the most worrisome features of these times is the loss of civility. I deeply regret any contributions I've made to this unfortunate trend. In the heat of the election aftermath, for example, I wrote a piece for my online column containing an unfair historical reference. Several people for whom I have great respect immediately told me I was out of line. They were right. I was wrong. I excised the offending reference. I'll never make that mistake again.

ZDNet: News: Commentary Nevertheless, the Mac is a vibrant, vital and enduring institution that has played an important role in the often-Darwinian evolution of the personal computer. Its extinction would leave its users poorer in the short run and benefit no one in the long run.

ZDNet: News: Commentary Whatever its current travails, Apple is sitting on $4 billion (with a "b") in the bank, and the Mac has a fantastically loyal following in the tens of millions. Short of China's Red Army (or the U.S. Supreme Court), there's not a body in the world that could compel this group into a wholesale surrender