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October 20, 2025

Resonant Thoughts: Tim Berners-Lee’s “This Is for Everyone” (2025)

“What I was beginning to see was that information was meaningless in isolation. Instead, what truly mattered was the relationship between one piece of information and the next. Context…” (59). “What you wanted, instead, was to encourage new and unexpected relationships between pieces of information to flourish. And, to do that, you had to let Continue reading

Resonant Thoughts

AI, artificial-intelligence, history, internet, technology
December 8, 2023

Curating The Week: Nostalgia, AI’s Influence On Programming, Making An Album A Day

• An essay on nostalgia. “Much as the pocket calculator long ago caused arithmetic skills to atrophy, newer technologies have made history ubiquitous instead of chronological, let alone explanatory. Mashups are now constructed with no real deliberateness but as part of a steady acquisitive spree through the videos that crowd our screens. We doomscroll and Continue reading

Curating The Week

AI, amanda-tyler, history, music production, nostalgia, novel, programming, publishing, writers

Thomas Brett is a musician and writer who holds a PhD in ethnomusicology from New York University. He is the author of Principles of Electronic Music Production and The Creative Electronic Music Producer, a book described by Sound On Sound magazine as “a deep philosophical analysis of the various creative inspirations, ideas and processes involved in producing electronic music.” His essays have appeared in the journals Popular Music and Popular Music and Society, as well as edited collections by Routledge, Oxford, and Cambridge University presses. Thomas has played percussion on Broadway since 1997 and writes about music at brettworks.com.

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Resonant Thoughts: Tim Berners-Lee’s “This Is for Everyone” (2025)

Curating The Week: Nostalgia, AI’s Influence On Programming, Making An Album A Day