User:Kessler
Intro[edit]
My name is Jack Kessler. My primary interests are digital information, France, and globalization. Interests in the recent past have included geology, J.S. Bach, and Homer. The more distant past gets to politics, old maps, London, Spain, and Tamil Nadu. Earlier than that gets to The Sixties, and George Carlin figured nobody who was there remembers those... :-O
I've formally studied philosophy and city planning and "library and information studies". During the 1990s I was an Internet consultant, speaking / teaching / writing about the then-new Internet. Now I mostly just write about it. I have lived in California and New England, and in the UK, France, and Spain. For 15 years I was in business, traveling annually to my favorite part of the world, which was then and still is southern India.
Libraries interest me very much, particularly the application of older print library paradigms to the newer online digital information techniques, and whether that works or not: the Internet has needed a good "index" for a long time, now, and it seems to me that "Wikipedia" might be one.
email: kessler@well.com
Favorite Quotes[edit]
Current political:
- "[This Constitution] can only end in Despotism... when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic Government, being incapable of any other..." -- Ben Franklin, at the close of the Constitutional Convention, 1787.
- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Ben again, motto of An historical review of the constitution and government of Pennsylvania from its origin (1759) -- aka "The price of liberty is eternal vigilance", which I once tried to hunt down and had to conclude it is apocryphal, but still true.
- "The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money." -- Tocqueville.
General life-enhancing:
- Online, adj.: The idea that a human being should always be accessible to a computer.
Lady Ada's First Rule of Cybernetic Entymology:
- There's always one more bug...
Shortcuts[edit]
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