my classes have mailing lists. it an astounding shift in learning. im exposed to the interactions between other students that have for a thousand years been private, not because they were meant to be private necessarily, but because thats how face to face interaction had to work. In emails I read there are subtle clues to over all class indicators of interest, problem difficulty, response to authority, etc.

3d plastic printers, especially the ones capable of laying metal circuit traces in the plastic, blur the very definition of property and ownership.

In our lifetimes, humanity as a species has developed to where it has a permanent habitation in space. I see that as a phenominal milestone in our development, as big as using tools or written language, and it happened during the span of the lifetime of people reading this blog - our lifetime.

maybe the speed of change in human life is meant to grow exponentially in time. it seems that each new revolution is occuring faster than the last one.

im doing cs581 homework at the moment.