instant plastic maybe
by headmine.net

  1. The big thing about the Web isn’t the technology, it’s that it’s the first-ever platform without a vendor … From that follows almost everything that matters.

    -Tim Bray, co-inventor of xml (via gross)
    ∞ link reblogged from gross
  2. Once we visualize cars as chips with wheels, it’s easier to imagine airplanes as chips with wings, farms as chips with soil, houses as chips with inhabitants. Yes, they will have mass, but that mass will be subjugated by the overwhelming amount of knowledge and information flowing through it. In economic terms, these objects will behave as if they had no mass at all. In that way, they migrate to the network economy.

  3. The blog format itself benefits from the unfinished. … the format naturally assumes that one post will follow another, or, in other words, that posts could be figuratively separated by commas, rather than periods.