American - Author | August 1, 1954 -
The ability to write and read books is one of the things that transformed us as a species.
James Gleick
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I really don't think of myself as a science writer.
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Granted, I'm more interested in technology than most people, and less interested in politics than most. But I don't like to think about categories. I really see myself as a general non-fiction writer.
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In cyberspace, the Wikipedians never stop gathering: It's a continuous round-the-clock rolling workfest.
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Wikipedians believe (and I do, too) that bits, being abstract, will outlast paper.
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Because everyone in the world has the power to edit, Wikipedia has long been plagued by the so-called edit war. This is like a house where the husband wants it warm and the wife wants it cool and they sneak back and forth adjusting the thermostat at cross purposes.
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To continue down the path of comprehensiveness, Wikipedia will need to sustain the astonishing mass fervor of its birth years. Will that be possible? No one knows.
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Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.
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Patents have long served as a fundamental cog in the American machine, cherished in our national soul.
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With the advent of computing, human invention crossed a threshold into a world different from everything that came before. The computer is the universal machine almost by definition, machine-of-all-trades, capable of accomplishing or simulating just about any task that can be logically defined.
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