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When you coined the word “cyberspace,” did you envision that the term might be your lasting legacy?
Not at all. I thought the book would be despised to the extent that it wasn’t ignored. Now, on a good day, my career seems so utterly unlikely that I wonder if I’m not about to snap out of a DMT blackout and discover that I’m not actually a famous writer of William Gibson novels but that I’m working at a used-book shop that smells of cat pee and drinking beer out of a cracked coffee mug.

via Rolling Stone

I always felt the axiom “If you haven’t made your scientific breakthrough by 40, you never will” rang true. Well this super fantastic article entitled Age and the entrepreneur, part 1: Some data, covers this very topic. The focus of the article is a University paper which conducted a rigorous study of creative individuals throughout history and made some interesting discoveries.

For centuries, thinkers have speculated about the association between a person’s age and exceptional accomplishment: Is there an optimal age for a person to make a lasting contribution to human culture or society? When during the life span can we expect an individual to be most prolific or influential?

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Saw this by way of BoingBoing, from Kottke.org:

Now that the NY Times has discontinued their Times Select subscription program and made much more of their 150+ years of content available for anyone to read and link to, let’s take a look at some of the more notable items that the non-subscriber has been missing.

What a wonderful video! It’s an animated version of the Bayeux Tapestry. Starts about halfway through the original work at the appearence of Halley’s Comet and concludes at the Battle of Hastings in 1066.