Dateline: above the garage in Portsmouth RI, 22 May 2004
Got a slew of articles I wanted to blog, but as I got a reminder email from one Terry Cochran of Intervention Magazine that I seemed to review every other review but his, maybe I posted the good ones!
Thing was, I really liked his review (he emailed me for a quick interview that he embedded within), so I sure as heck wasn’t ignoring his because I thought it was unfavorable. I remember starting to pen that “reviewing the review,” because I remember typing “who have thunk there was such a thing as Intervention Magazine?” But I must have simply walked away from that file on one of my computers, because I never did seem to finish it.
That’s the pace I’m running at right now: I’m losing track of the appearances versus reviews versus posts versus speeches. While you want to take advantage of everything, it does tend to blur, so I’ll put aside the articles tonight (hopefully getting to them tomorrow) and I’ll review three reviews (one formal, one impromptu one via a blog, and a new one on Amazon). All seem to worry about the same thing: too much cost in implementing my vision. But in my mind, each writer is guilty of extrapolating too much from today in a linear fashion for all the tomorrows they can imagine. But I doth protest too much: the book was designed exactly for triggering these sorts of debates and questions, so I can’t complain about the points they raise.
Rather than blanket them all with one come back, let me respond to each in turn as best I can. I make the title reference above because it’s late and I have to get up very early tomorrow morning to drive to Watertown again to do a live remote for the Philly ABC Station’s 8am Sunday news interview program. I’m lugging my kids along and combining it with a trip to the science museum in Boston.
The three reviews are:
Terry Cochran’s formal review in Intervention Magazine (source url)
James Moore’s informal review in his blog (Jim Moore's cybernetics, politics, emergence, etc. (source url)
James Kielland’s posted review on the Amazon page for my book (source url)
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