Let's Make it Sunny, and Share

I'd have liked to hear more about our evolutionary collaborative roots, but this is nonetheless a very interesting talk on how technology is enabling sharing on a massive scale. My favorite line is about owning a power drill, when most people use them so rarely: "I don't want the drill, I want the hole."

Postscripts in Pixels

Why does anyone use "p.s." in e-mails? I'm not judging, mind, because I still do it myself. But consider: p.s. stands for the Latin post scriptum, meaning "written after." After what? In the pen and ink days, it was after you'd signed your name but before the letter was sealed and posted. You couldn't edit a letter undetected -- unless you wanted to recopy the entire thing. And since p.s. is more often used as an "oh, by the way..." or an "I forgot to tell you..." that for anything of momentous import, you just add it at the end.

With anything handwritten going the way of tanzanite, we can all edit our missives without anyone knowing the difference. Until you hit send, everything's still up for grabs. Maybe the p.s. for the digital age would be forwarding your sent mail to the same recipient, addending it with whatever you had failed to communicate the first time.