Tanuj

“Ubuntu”, have you heard of it ? It means "I am because we are," or "humanity towards others,". In Xhosa, it is "umntu ngumntu ngabantu", but is often used in a more philosophical sense to mean "the belief in a universal bond of sharing that connects all humanity."

“Histography" is interactive timeline that spans across 14 billion years of history, from the Big Bang to 2015.

When you liberate programming from the requirement to be general and professional and scalable, it becomes a different activity altogether, just as cooking at home is really nothing like cooking in a commercial kitchen. I can report to you: not only is this different activity rewarding in almost exactly the same way that cooking for someone you... See more

It seems very unlikely that 200 trillion, trillion stars have been made for us. In a way, it feels like the cruelest joke in existence has been played on us. We became self-aware only to realize this story is not about us.

Permacomputing asks the question whether we can rethink computing in the same way as permaculture rethinks agriculture. Is there even place for high technology (such as computing) in a world where human civilizations contribute to the well-being of the biosphere rather than destroy it? Permacomputing wants to imagine such a place and take steps... See more