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Senior Maverick at Wired, author of bestseller book, The Inevitable. Also Cool Tool maven, Recomendo chief, Asia-holic, and True Film buff.

Pacifica, CA
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    25 Apr 2014

    Over the long term, the future is decided by optimists.

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  2. Jun 21

    Last Christmas our family floated through Bali for the holiday. My son Tywen made a 3-minute visual poem about this brief visit. He got the vibe right.

    4 replies 2 retweets 21 likes
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  3. Jun 19

    TIL about Null Island, an imaginary island located a precisely 0 , 0 degrees where the prime meridian crosses the equator. It has a flag.

    5 replies 22 retweets 59 likes
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  4. Jun 15

    Amazon ships a camera with built-in AI to do image recognition. As in: hot dog or not-hot dog. But you need to teach it.

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  5. Jun 6

    A charming esoteric subculture in Japan: gardens in beds of mini trucks. Only in Japan.

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  6. Jun 2

    Brilliantly insightful article. "In its previous incarnation, [globalization] was trade-based and Western-led. Today, globalization is being driven by digital technology and is increasingly led by China and other emerging economies."

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  7. Jun 2

    I get joy making things like this second rack for my small hardware trays in my workshop. This one (left) from 2x4s, now installed next to welded metal one (right).

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  8. May 30

    For all my China friends, an open photowalk with Trey is quite a treat.

    I just announced a new photo walk in Shanghai on June 17! Here's the FB event at - And my WeChat also has the details via the easy-to-remember ID: wxid_xpff8r0gr29122
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  9. May 25

    The network economy plays to human strengths. Repetition, sequels, copies, and automation all tend toward the free and efficient, while innovation, experience, discovery, and exploration – none of them efficient – soar in value.

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  10. May 24

    As networks rise, the center recedes.

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  11. May 23

    Any job that can be measured for productivity is probably a job that people should not do.

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  12. May 22

    Productivity is the wrong thing to care about in the new economy. Productivity is for robots.

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  13. Retweeted
    May 19

    I bought a car today, and the dealership had me check off — with a pen, on paper — that I’m not a robot.

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  14. May 21

    There is more to gain by producing new possibilities than by optimizing existing ones.

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  15. May 20

    Every opportunity that is seized launches at least two new opportunities.

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  16. May 19

    The origin of economic wealth begins in opportunities.

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  17. May 18

    The network economy is founded on technology, but it can only be built up on relationships. It starts with chips and ends with trust.

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  18. May 18

    20 years ago I wrote New Rules for the New Economy. I wouldn’t change anything. It’s still valid today. I’ll be tweeting some of its maxims in the coming weeks.

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  19. May 18

    On podcasts I normal talk about tech, but on this episode with I go long about my years traveling in remote Asia in the 1970s. It was a different century.

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  20. May 17

    In 1996 I tried to recruit Tom Wolfe to write for Wired. He replied "maybe" in a handwritten letter to me as dandy as his white suit. (We tried, but never found a mutually satisfying subject. My regret; he was totally wired.)

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  21. May 17

    One of the chief chores in the network economy is to restore the symmetry of knowledge between the watchers and the watched.

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