An interesting piece by Jamais Cascio, senior contributing editor at World Changing: Another World Is Here: The Open Future: Spirits in the Material World - and a slew of fascinating comments.
The Open Future: Spirits in the Material World

I was at Greg Delanty’s launch of his Collected Poems this evening (February 27) and a very enjoyable evening it was too.
Greg told me that I put him up in Dublin back in the eighties when he came to Dublin first and was attempting to become a poet - and that I have a [...]

Some lovely quotes in The Guardian from Beckett Remembering Remembering Beckett, to be published by Bloomsbury next month, in good time for Beckett’s centenary in April. Here’s just part of one, from Paul Auster:
Then, out of the blue, five or 10 minutes later, he leant across the table and said, ‘You really liked it, huh? [...]

In these chilled days of February, it was warming news to hear that Dialogue in Fading Light, my new and selected poems which was published in November, is now out of stock as far as the publisher is concerned.
I know there are a few copies left in Books Upstairs in College Green, and there [...]

I’ve had a heavy workload of late so it’s only now I’m getting around to congratulating those elected to Aosdána last week.
There were four writers elected: Eugene McCabe, Billy Roche, Glenn Patterson and Dennis O’Driscoll..
Most writers, myself included, had previously assumed that Eugene McCabe was already a member, such is his eminence, so it’s [...]

See the amazing future of computing at U Tube.
The article about it is at WIRED, which also links to the New York University research on the subject .
I want one. [...]