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Clive Thompson
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Clive Thompson writes collision detection, a personal blog at collisiondetection.net about culture, writing and politics. Since 2008, 23 different Hacker News readers have linked it 26 times, most often “Wired Love: a novel from 1880 that could have been written last week ”. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Clive Thompson's blog for posts on the 1880 telegraph romance novel Wired Love, phones and casual reading, the Gillette razor singularity joke, and research summaries.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A weblog about politics, technology, and culture
Most-linked posts?
- Wired Love: a novel from 1880 that could have been written last week 4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2013-07-29
- We're all cyborgs now3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2010-02-01
- Why 18th century books looked like smartphone screens (2014)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-02-03
What Hacker News says?
Smartphones are actually a terrific medium for casual reading [1]. [1]: http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2014/02/_thats...
Comment linking /mt/archives/2014/02/_thats_one_of_t.php
on “Atari co-founder: mobile games make me want to throw my phone”Submitted Wired Love: a novel from 1880 that could have been written last week as a story · 155 points
HN discussionDid you ever read the book Wired Love? It's about two telegraph operators falling in love via morse code. It's from the late 1800's. http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2013/07/wired_...
Comment linking /mt/archives/2013/07/wired_love_a_ta.php
on “Show HN: App for Falling in Love”Submitted Why 18th century books looked like smartphone screens (2014) as a story · 106 points
HN discussionThe Gilette Singularity The interesting curve is the hyperbolic one, for two reasons: One, it matches the real-world data. And two, it goes to infinity in 2015. And how are you going to get an asymptotically-accelerating number of blades onto a razor? Why, you’d need godlike super-technology to do that. http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2006/06/the_gi...
Comment linking /mt/archives/2006/06/the_gillette_si.php
on “Solve your first world problems”Submitted Study: Teams work best when members are physically close together as a story · 65 points
HN discussionBetter to read the original article: http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2013/07/wired_... and not the Boing Boing summary.
Comment linking /mt/archives/2013/07/wired_love_a_ta.php
on “Wired Love: a novel from 1880 that could have been written last week ”Submitted Why "trending topics" are so spectacularly useless as a story · 20 points
HN discussion> Human grandmasters don’t work that way. They do not necessarily “see” the game several moves out. Indeed, they can’t — as Kasparov points out, chess is so complex that “a player looking eight moves ahead [faces] as many possible games as there are stars in the galaxy.”... “As for how many moves ahead a grandmaster sees,” as Kasparov concludes, the real answer is: “Just one, the best one.” http://www.collisiondetec…
Comment linking /mt/archives/2010/02/why_cyborgs_are.php
on “Garry Kasparov defeats Alan Turing in chess in 15 moves”Submitted At Amherst college, 1% of first-year students have landlines, 99% have Facebook accounts as a story · 17 points
HN discussionThere's a charming book about a long-distance relationship between telegraph operators called Wired Love by Ella Cheever Thayer. The writing itself isn't anything special, but it is remarkably prescient. Here's a particularly insightful quotation: > ... we will soon be able to do everything by electricity; who knows but some genius will invent something for the especial use of lovers? something, for instance, to car…
Comment linking /mt/archives/2013/07/wired_love_a_ta.php
on ““U Tr?”: Abbreviations Used by Early-20th-Century Telegraph Operators”Submitted Sex chat bots that pass the turing test? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI liked Clive Thompson's summary of the paper: http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2008/01/this_m...
Comment linking /mt/archives/2008/01/this_means_that.html
on “Engineers of Jihad | The Oxford Study on "Engineering Mindset" and Terrorism [pdf]”Submitted Molecular secrets of the iron-plated snail as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted We're all cyborgs now as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted What 'Sent From My iPhone' Really Means as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How DIYers Just Might Revive Western Innovation as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The neurobiology of the Mona Lisa's smile as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How “making” leads to “fixing” as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Should automobile software be open-sourced? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 41% of museums don't know how dogs actually walk as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Will the word processor destroy our ability to think? (2010) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gary Kasparov, Cyborg as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why 18th century books looked like smartphone screens as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How tweets and the web can boost the power of long-form thinking as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Clive Thompson: Paper explains how the "engineering mentality" produces terrorists as a story · 1 points
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