Ethernet TV

Stephen Wolfram: “Back in 1981, I had the idea that, perhaps, just as I’d been able to find primitives for computations people want to do, I might somehow also be able to find primitives for what nature does.

The crucial thing that I realized is that those primitives don’t have to be based only on traditional mathematical constructs. I mean, if one’s going to be able to do theoretical science, one has to assume that nature follows some kind of definite rules.

But why do those rules involve only the kinds of constructs that have been invented in human mathematics?

Can’t the rules be somehow more general?

Perhaps the kinds of rules that can be embodied in programs might actually be what nature is using.”

If the adoration of footlights is ever fleeting, false, and fickle, the kitchen table is equally real. If you can’t get it right here, you won’t get it right anywhere; and if you can, vice versa, of course. Keep doing what you dream to do until you’re doing it at the level and quality you imagined.

As if that weren’t enough self-discipline and creativity for you, the artists have also created a “video-jukebox” prototype at BlahBlahBleh.

Google’s Fiberhood Network

Well, the feasibility of this was originally accomplished in 1999. Ah, we were so young and full of bright hopes bit.ly/BackThen. Maybe Larry and Sergey just didn’t yet realize the power of The Google, yet. Maybe the long and winding road will bring us together after all? In any event: never, ever let go of your dreams. “The best way to predict the future is to build it.”