Re: the organizational invariance principle

From: dwayne (dwayne@pobox.com)
Date: Mon Apr 01 2002 - 02:31:32 MST


Damien Broderick wrote:

> [now seriously thinking of globally changing the term `Spike' into
> `Singularity' in any translations of my damned book, if my agent finally
> manages to stir any interest in Europe, Russia or Japan]

yeah, do it, it's a nice term, your one, but otherwise we're promoting at
cross-purposes and Vinge had a bit of a head start.

BBC yesterday credited Jaron Lanier with coining "Virtual Reality"

When did you first publish this phrase?
I'll happily send them a correction-type email if you provide details. Maybe
enough of us can reverse this shocking miscarriage of thingy.

Dwayne



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