Fred Collopy

@lindakinstler Answer is actually a 1954 story: jahandost.wordpress.com/2008/02/15/fre…

For well over a year, I’ve been interviewing religious leaders, programmers, engineers, & believers of all faiths about how our devices are reshaping our relationships with our souls & innermost selves. I hope you will give it a read: nytimes.com/interactive/20…

@lindakinstler Thank you for your incredibly interesting article, Linda. Two science fiction stories are conflated in your telling. Your reference is to The Last Question a 1956 Isaac Asimov story. The incident you describe is from Frederic Brown's 1950 story Answer.

@DonnyWals Where is the best info on them located currently, Donny?

These new multitasking gestures on iPadOS really are a huge improvement 😌

@kevin2kelly Email is collopy@case.edu

We are going to scan all the back issues of Whole Earth and CQs to make them public. If you have sets of back issues you'd like to donate for this purpose contact me. I'll have a spreadsheet soon which will list the issues we lack — which right now is most of them.

@kevin2kelly I did a physical and have CQ issues 2-43 (missing 1 and 27); WER issues 44 - 89; WE issues 90-110 (missing 95 and 98). So four issues missing in the run. I also have WE Software Review issues 1 and 2 and the Software Catalog. I will contribute shipping.

@kevin2kelly HI Kevin, I have all of them. Please let me know how to get them to you.

I just finished four hours with @DonnyWals workshop on CoreData/Combine/SwiftUI integration. It provided a step change in my intuitions about how these pieces interact. Thanks!

@berkun @doriantaylor Managing as Designing, Stanford University Press, 2004.

"leaders still don't understand what “design” means or what role it plays... they still say “look and feel”, “make it easy to use” & “user-friendly”... [it] hasn’t evolved past 1985 - why should it have? What framing have we provided?" - @doriantaylor dorian.substack.com/p/no-stuck-boa…

@FrankBruni How about gun management. That is the word we most commonly turn to when we need to describe something complex enough to require (individual or collective) human intervention.

The language we use in political debates is loaded. And "gun control" doesn't serve the just cause of gun safety -- or whatever else we are wiser to call it. My column >>> nytimes.com/2021/03/27/opi…

@FramkBruni How about gun management. That is the work we most commonly turn to when we need to describe something complex enough to require (individual or collective) human intervention.

@FrankBruni How about gun management? That is the word we most frequently turn to when we need to address things complex enough to require (individual or collective) human intervention.

@matthewphillips What you describe in paragraph 10 of your NYT piece today is a positive feedback loop. Positive feedback (like a loudspeaker into microphone loop) amplifies what is happening, while negative feedback (like a thermostat to heater loop) regulates or controls it.

What an honor it was and is to have such opportunities for shared learning.

I just added an important idea from @PatMetheny to the discussion of melody on the RhythmicLight.com site. His way of addressing the matter expands nicely on Gyorgy Kepes 1944 thinking about how melody plays in the plastic arts.

I just posted a brief synopsis of Creative Selection (by @kocienda) at rhythmiclight.com

.@Caltech archivist Peter Collopy presents the university's collections as a "cabinet of wonder" during his LASER talk at @ACCDgallery tonight.

With #GuggenheimReflections, @59Productions has produced visual music worthy of Gehyr's magnificent canvas. vimeo.com/238199432

He was so very perceptive and enthusiastic, wasn't he? twitter.com/deannaday/stat…

@paymurphy What options are you considering, Payton?

Looking forward twitter.com/cerveris/statu…