Notes on fiction, technology, engineering, memory, faith, music and the decisions behind the books.
A working rule for Sleepless: new material must add a new event, consequence, relationship, decision, visual image or piece of character life. If it performs the same dramatic job as something already on the page, consolidate it.
Computing history is not a straight line from primitive to advanced. It is a long sequence of human needs, failures, standards, rivalries, inventions and second attempts.
World-changing technology matters more when it reaches the kitchen table, the school run, the hospital corridor, the pub bill and the private choice nobody can outsource.