Matthew Royal > Recent Status Updates

"The development of the airplane will again alter the map of civilization.... Countries like England and France will lose the commercial advantage of abundant coast lines conveniently indented; countries like Russia, China, and Brazil, which were hampered by the excess of their land mass over their coasts, will cancel part of that handicap by taking to the air."

Love the idea of different levels of AIs fitting into existing human caste systems.

"bitter sediments at the bottom of his nature"

Skipped ahead and read Chapters 14 and 15 on Modeling processes and best practices -- this is the stuff I was looking for when I bought the book! Reading the rest of the RDFS and OWL stuff as a review.

I love how Type A following her bliss is: not running off to Bali to find herself, but creating a 5 page Todo list with life goals and self-actualization ideas, and knocking items off it with prejudice.