Drupal musings 16: 1% digital and analogue memories

At Drupalcon in his keynotes Dries Buytaert has highlighted that Drupal now powers approximately 1% of the web. While 1% is not much especially given the total size of the internet with its day on day, hour by hour growth this is nonetheless a significant milestone. Especially when Dries speculates on the growth of Drupal projected ahead to 2020.

Like all digital media Drupal is a tool that extends our personal and cultural memories. As all the keynotes showed Drupal, PHP, HTML[5] all have histories of their own and a role to play in providing a surrogate memory. The media and technology [IBM] regularly predict how technology will change our lives, including how we remember.

Amid such speculation memory still makes us who we are. You and I have a yesterday, today - and we pray - a tomorrow.

This is the bootstrap that counts

Bootstrapping or booting refers to a group of metaphors that share a common meaning:

a self-sustaining process that proceeds without external help. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrap

Striking then the news this week that - dementia costs 'equal to 1% of global GDP'.

Knowledge site 'Pass It Along' [IBM] & 6 New Scientist Autumn Specials

There is a new beta site for software and systems developers... by IBM 'Pass It Along' for sharing knowledge and expertise:




Also received - news of 6 weeks of New Scientist Autumn Specials:

Starting this week and running until 25th October issue, New Scientist will be featuring a series of special reports:

Sept 20th - Future car: electric or hydrogen?

Sept 27th - The seven biggest mysteries about the Earth

Oct 4th - Outer limits of the brain

Oct 11th - What would a world run on renewable energy look like?

Oct 18th - Excess: why we need a new economic model

Oct 25th - Defeating cancer