Bookmarks => Curated search results with a user-centric taxonomy

Admittedly, in our modern post-Information Scarcity era, a quick google search is usually the first step towards answering a question... but if one has a body of knowledge one regularly visits, there is a place for having one's own curated collection, ,and a taxonomy that makes finding things (and seeing the associations between items) quick and easy.

1. 1. Is Pinboard worth the $11 / month?
2. 2. Which sites, if any, are the modern-day equivalent of del.icio.us - an easy place to store and share one's links with a tagging taxonomy?

The point of home automation is to (a) integrate various technologies around the home while (b) providing a convenient, intuitive, easy to use interface for doing so. I'm sure the same objections were made in the past about *every* technological advance...

• "Use fire to provide light at night? Just go to sleep, like everyone else does."
• "Cook your meat? Just eat it raw, like everyone else does."
• "Domesticate and ride a horse? Just walk, like everyone else does."

There are legitimate concerns when it comes to the hows and whys of home automation... but this reflexive nay-saying isn't among them. It's just lazy objection for objection's sake.

You have the amazing ability to share words with the entire planet... and you chose to squander it on the above.

We have someone charged with educating children. Her way of fulfilling that responsibility is to have pages torn out of textbooks.

In what universe does that constitute the legitimate fulfillment of her responsibilities?

You mean, by fighting for individual rights and freedoms? Do tell...

Also, with Google Docs I have full access to my content anywhere, on any device... and, again, all for free. Desktop software, in these respects, is hardly superior.

And yet, I use Google Docs on a regular basis... and find it sufficiently powerful, reliable, free, and with the features I need. If you'd like to create a competing product, please do... otherwise, just what are you bringing to the table?

At least, for now...

The general idea is appealing: An especially easy to see/access interface to one's phone, one that takes the role traditionally held by a wristwatch and builds on it.

But, given the cost, and given the limitations of a postage-stamp-sized interface, I just don't see any "killer apps" for smart watches that justify that cost.

By your "argument", we shouldn't have children, lest they surpass us one day.

Let's make a slight change to your sentence:

or how about:

Do you see my point?

You want the rest of humanity to put itself into the few boxes you happen to be comfortable with. Can you give us a good reason (aside from inconvenience for database maintainers... and no, that's not a good reason) why anyone should feel obliged to agree with you?

What, in your opinion, stands in the way of such a world happening? I don't necessarily believe it will as written in this story, either, but I'm interested in hearing your particular reasons for doubt.

Certainly, we are in a post-Information Scarcity era... and I love it!

The question you need to ask yourself is this: Do I passively let the collapse happen, or do I have the intellect, courage, and will to do something, however small, to fight for a better future? Will I light a candle, or curse the darkness?

You've got a few things wrong with your statement... Socialism is an economic system in which there is social ownership of the means of production, and co-operative management of the economy. What the Federation seems to be (they never have given a coherent picture of their economics) is more a post-Scarcity economy with a partly Democratic / party Anarchic political system... but it isn't Socialism. And, given the pace at which automation is replacing labor, there will come a time when there aren't enough jobs because the tasks that need to get done are getting done... without humans needing to be "in the loop." What will we do then? I vote for giving - yes, giving - everyone enough to give them shelter, food to keep them healthy, and access to medical care and education. We'll have enough surplus output to easily manage that. We can work towards the description of society given by Captain Picard in "The Neutral Zone":

"People are no longer obsessed with the accumulation of things. We've eliminated hunger, want, the need for possessions. We've grown out of our infancy."