[ExI] Vinge finally cracks the NYT

[hkhenson]

At 04:18 PM 8/26/2008, Emlyn wrote:

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>I can't really explain this, but I've been getting a sense of ...
>momentum in the online environment recently. It feels different to
>what we've seen before, like isolated strands are starting to lock
>together, feedback loops kicking off. Like the point in a film where
>the urgent, tension building music begins, very quietly, so you'd
>barely sense it. I really don't have anything much very concrete to
>add, except that the free culture movement seems important to it.

That's the characteristic of exponential social trends.

This is slowly starting to get attention.

http://htyp.org/Dollar_a_gallon_gasoline

Keith