Entries tagged with: Neologisms

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Geomimicry

In many sustainability circles, "bioengineering" = "bad and scary," while "biomimcry" = "cool and useful." Biomimicry usually doesn't involve bioengineering, and in fact often relies upon completely non-biological processes to mimic biological effects. And it is, in fact, pretty cool...

Posted on August 22, 2011 12:11 PM

Neodicy

Warren Ellis did me the great honor of asking me to write a piece for his website, on whatever topic was on my mind. This is what resulted. You can see the posting at Warren's place here; I've reproduced it...

Posted on December 14, 2010 12:45 PM

Phraseology

Neologisms coming to mind during the Institute for the Future Ten-Year Forecast event (Updated): "Mesh-to-Mesh" -- social network applications, like Twitter, structured as overlapping peer networks. Living in the space between one-to-one and many-to-many, mesh-to-mesh networks serve as a medium...

Posted on April 9, 2008 3:02 PM

Yeats Signals

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned;...

Posted on April 1, 2008 8:55 AM

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