Hello!
Welcome to my blog!
My first real connection with the Internet was in 1994, the year after its invention, when I published my first website. That was the year I began writing Internet for Kids. It took a little convincing my editor that the Internet was something viable. Most “experts” dismissed it as a passing fad. Both Newsweek and Time delegated it to being in the class of the hula-hoop and much ado about nothing. Even Bill Gates and Microsoft were uncertain to its potential. Of course Bill was the person who once boldly predicted that 64k of memory was all a computer would ever need.
Looking back I see that I’ve survived the boom and bust years of the net. Today, like computers, which were also initially dismissed as unnecessary (as was the telephone). The Internet is everywhere. I have a Dominican priest friend who is in a remote past of Guatemala and we exchange emails like he was just down the street. The registered population of My Space is currently over 80 million, more than the states of California and New York combined.
So what’s it all mean? I doubt that anyone today has any idea of what the next twenty or a hundred years holds. It will definitely not be what we expect. My own suspicion is that the Internet will continue to grow—on its own, becoming a new form of artificial intelligence, or more probably an alien intelligence. Which is what I’m now exploring in my current in work novel, Mindwave (formally titled Mindworm), and is the reason the book is taking so long to complete, optimistically by the end of 2006.
On these pages I’ll talk about the Internet, the craft writing, my experiences growing up in the Pacific Northwest, and my later adventures down south in Hollywood as a scriptwriter, and what it feels like being back home again in Seattle—which, thanks to Microsoft, has become the new Mecca of the Internet and is also flourishing as a film community. Which has inspired me to get back to writing screenplays as well as books.
My first real connection with the Internet was in 1994, the year after its invention, when I published my first website. That was the year I began writing Internet for Kids. It took a little convincing my editor that the Internet was something viable. Most “experts” dismissed it as a passing fad. Both Newsweek and Time delegated it to being in the class of the hula-hoop and much ado about nothing. Even Bill Gates and Microsoft were uncertain to its potential. Of course Bill was the person who once boldly predicted that 64k of memory was all a computer would ever need.
Looking back I see that I’ve survived the boom and bust years of the net. Today, like computers, which were also initially dismissed as unnecessary (as was the telephone). The Internet is everywhere. I have a Dominican priest friend who is in a remote past of Guatemala and we exchange emails like he was just down the street. The registered population of My Space is currently over 80 million, more than the states of California and New York combined.
So what’s it all mean? I doubt that anyone today has any idea of what the next twenty or a hundred years holds. It will definitely not be what we expect. My own suspicion is that the Internet will continue to grow—on its own, becoming a new form of artificial intelligence, or more probably an alien intelligence. Which is what I’m now exploring in my current in work novel, Mindwave (formally titled Mindworm), and is the reason the book is taking so long to complete, optimistically by the end of 2006.
On these pages I’ll talk about the Internet, the craft writing, my experiences growing up in the Pacific Northwest, and my later adventures down south in Hollywood as a scriptwriter, and what it feels like being back home again in Seattle—which, thanks to Microsoft, has become the new Mecca of the Internet and is also flourishing as a film community. Which has inspired me to get back to writing screenplays as well as books.
posted by TIMETREKS at
7:52 AM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home