information wants to be free

There are many English versions of the Bible, and it is from the most popular version that Linus quotes from, namely, the King James Version. The Christmas Story that Linus recited on A Charlie Brown Christmas, is straight from Luke 2:8-14 in the Bible (King James Version).  And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them; and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men." -...

Technology has this innate momentum (or intertia) to continue developing until the hypothetical end when the infinite game of life as we know it reaches its final destination. People have different guesses on what that end is or when it might happen. Though we don't have a date, a religion like Christianity has one answer of what it would look like when it happens. Not sure I've seen if there's a scientific answer for when the world will end due to factors like global warming, or the expansion of the universe, or something else. Technology Is Heading Somewhere If the question is framed as, " What does technology want? " - that assumes that technology has some kind of an inherent bias to move towards something that it wants.  Kevin Kelly wrote a book with that question as the title . And this video ted.com is worth watching to get the full context. What is the conclusion? Kevin Kelly alludes to what technology wants in a few statements like these: So...

Wikipedia says, or at the moment of this posting: The Information Age is a 21st century period in human history characterized by the rapid shift from traditional industry that the Industrial Revolution brought through industrialization, to an economy based on information technology. Other terms for this time that we find ourselves in, include: Computer Age,  Digital Age,  New Media Age What's next after the information age? Some people are trend-watchers (and others are trend-setters; and most people are just normal trend-followers, though there's a few who are trend-resistors and trend-avoiders). Do you wonder what is beyond the information age ? In 2014, Julian Birkinshaw (London Business School) wrote:  The industrial revolution in the late nineteenth century ushered in the industrial age, and the digital revolution in the mid twentieth century spurred the emergence of the information age. So it is not entirely crazy to speculate about what ...

[update May 2018] Now it's ten years later This was an old blog post from 2008. Can you believe that this was 10 years ago!? Now that we have that out of the way, we want to use the more robust Blogger engine to see what kind of a blog and website we can build here on the Google-powered infrastructure in the cloud. It looks like Blogger can be actually quite useful for solid content that of course Google would know how to crawl and rank and have show up in its search engine results. In case you didn't know, Google owns Blogger. The back story, if you're interested This was a blog created as a placeholder on Blogger, so my username would be reserved for me and no one else could take it. Well, that part is true, no one has taken it. And according to the statistics portion, there's only been 20 views all time. So it's been in pretty quite safe keeping in the "dark web." Now with the internet namespace expansion of over a thousand new domain exte...

Article excerpt from "Second-Generation Chinese Evangelical Use of the Bible in Identity Discourse in North America," by Timothy Tseng, published in Semeia 90/91 (2002) 251–67, copyright © 2002 by the Society of Biblical Literature . (pp. 255-257)— Since the 1970s, identity discourse among Chinese evangelicals in North America has focused on urging immigrant church leaders to accept their socialization into North American culture and to share power and resources more equitably. During the NACOCE conferences in 1972, 1974, and 1978, advocates for North American–born Chinese pressed for greater attention. In 1978, a small group of West Coast American-born pastors received endorsements from NACOCE to form the Fellowship of American Chinese Evangelicals (FACE). This group sought to address the perceived problem of a high “drop out” rate among American-born Chinese (ABC) in Chinese churches, cultivate ABC church leadership, advocate for ABC ministries within Chinese churches, an...