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Warren Ellis
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Warren Ellis's personal blog at warrenellis.com covers writing and culture. Since 2007, 29 different Hacker News readers have linked it 31 times, most often “How To See The Future”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (10) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers cite Ellis's essay 'How to See the Future' on why the present looks dull, plus posts on Facebook, TED, writing tools and his Orbital Operations newsletter. Most links are passing references.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 10 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Warren Ellis is the award-winning writer of graphic novels like TRANSMETROPOLITAN, FELL, TREES and PLANETARY, and the author of the New York
Most-linked posts?
- How To See The Future6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2012-09-09
- Warren Ellis on the Social Web: End Of The First Cycle2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-12-19
- Unsocial Media: The Uselessness Of Facebook And Google+ 2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-10-17
What Hacker News says?
I’m always reminded of Warren Ellis’ talk “How to see the Future” when I read stuff like this. We have to strive to reduce the banality with which we view the world, and things like this go a long way. http://www.warrenellis.com/how-to-see-the-future/
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on “Hayabusa2 is leaving the asteroid Ryugu and heading back to Earth”Submitted How To See The Future as a story · 60 points
HN discussionAuthor Warren Ellis also noticed this recently when digging into how to promote his new book: http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=14404 His conclusion? Not Facebook
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on “Facebook, I want my friends back”Submitted Sometimes I Think About Reinstating the Comments System as a story · 46 points
HN discussionI'm not the only person who thinks so: "Clay Shirky looked like Tom Hanks but I didn't ask him about his latest movie role (I hope)." ( http://terranova.blogs.com/terra_nova/2003/11/usercreated_co... ) "If Shirky ever has a movie made of his life, it’ll have to be Tom Hanks that stars. I think he sounds and looks a lot like Shirky!" ( http://blogs.technet.com/johmar/archive/2008/09/18/web-2-0-e... ) "Imagine hair on…
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on “Love, Internet Style”Submitted Peak plastic as a story · 42 points
HN discussionOr haunted beef: http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=12765
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on “The brain's 5-million core, 9 Hz computer”Submitted Dear OpenOffice as a story · 36 points
HN discussion...and another starts to use it http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=13077
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on “A writer leaves Microsoft Word”Submitted Robert Scoble's Facebook Cortex as a story · 32 points
HN discussionNo problemo. I remember reading it at work when it came out, thinking...what the heck IS this thing? It came to me originally from the mailing list of Warren Ellis, a cranky, foul-mouthed British comic book writer who hates and despises everything he sees, hears, and reads. That morning he sent an e-mail out to the 12,000 people on his mailing list saying: "Here's something that isn't terrible. In fact, it might be…
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on “College dropout makes $100,000 a year, with a two-day workweek”Submitted How To Sell A Digital Comic as a story · 30 points
HN discussionhttp://www.warrenellis.com/?p=14314
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on “TED talks are lying”Submitted Square credit card app forbids purchase of "occult materials" in EULA as a story · 30 points
HN discussionI read some musings by Warren Ellis [1] which brushed up against easier space travel, very briefly: "The Olympus Mons mountain on Mars is so tall and yet so gently sloped that, were you suited and supplied correctly, ascending it would allow you to walk most of the way to space. Mars has a big, puffy atmosphere, taller than ours, but there’s barely anything to it at that level. 30 Pascals of pressure, which is what…
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on “Spaceflight from Super-Earths is difficult”Submitted How To See The Future as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThis is utter bullshit. Warren Ellis's excelent "How to see the future"[1], addresses why we're perpetually bored by the times we live in, and are always nostalgic about some bygone golden age: ...We look at the present day through a rear-view mirror. This is something Marshall McLuhan said back in the Sixties, when the world was in the grip of authentic- seeming future narratives. He said, “We look at the present t…
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on “When Will This Low-Innovation Era End?”Submitted Unsocial Media: The Uselessness Of Facebook And Google+ as a story · 3 points
HN discussionOrbital Operations by Warren Ellis http://www.warrenellis.com/orbital-operations-a-new-newslett... Various musings from author Warren Ellis - comic books, script writing, weird fiction are probably the mainstays but it can include all sorts.
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on “Ask HN: What are your favorite email newsletters?”Submitted Visualizing RFID fields as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to See the Future as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Warren Ellis: How To See The Future as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is magazine publishing dying? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Patchwork Years as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Warren Ellis on internet "Burst Culture" as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Social Web: End Of The First Cycle as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rachel Armstrong, on Where The Future Went as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How To See The Future as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Warren Ellis on the Social Web: End Of The First Cycle as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How the Internet deletes hype as a story · 1 points
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