Amitai Givertz's Blogversity Blog

Microsoft have unveiled their vision of the future in a slick tube imaginatively titled Productivity Future Vision (2011). While the video showcases Microsoft “innovations” [rather than an actual vision of the future] some of the the comments are timeless, ensuring this glitzy promo will be talked about for all the wrong reasons…

• “I never asked for this.”
• “Fake! The World will ends in 2012.”
• “OMG, you left your porn on the fridge again.”
• “I was expecting more than a better touch screen.”
• “Cannot retrieve user data. Data Plan may be exceeded.”
• “How about Microsoft stop daydreaming and create some damn jobs for the working class.”
• “That mom is having affair with that Japanese administrator, while father is forced to stay home with daughter, cooking like a woman.”
• “Where are the fucking robots and flying cars already?”

Do leave a comment of your own, won’t you?

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I have been tracking the recent London riots with some interest.  Having spent the first half of my life in London, keeping up with the comings and goings there seems like the right thing to do.

Particularly under circumstances such as these, when old haunts are seen being blitzed again, I take leisurely strolls down memory lane preferring my own sentimental journey to the path of degradation which has led to the present day blighting of Blighty.

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Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love, and avoid others, like loneliness. We eat specific foods to enjoy their fleeting presence on our tongues. We read for the pleasure of thinking another person’s thoughts. Every waking moment—and even in our dreams—we struggle to direct the flow of sensation, emotion, and cognition toward states of consciousness that we value.

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