“Greater than zero, less than Infin­i­ty” is a way of look­ing at life.

There is always some­thing more than noth­ing, and always some­thing less than infi­nite; any­thing is pos­si­ble, while improb­a­ble, yes, but always possible.

I have been in com­put­ing for 26+ years offi­cial­ly and grew up and start­ed tin­ker­ing with sys­tems in the ear­ly ’80s with a C64; to say that a great deal has changed is an under­state­ment; I would har­bour a guess that some of the read­ers of this are too young to remem­ber a C64.

The dig­i­tal world has grown in com­plex ways and has become an enti­ty — it ebbs and flows, con­nects us in dynam­ic ways and has its share of pit­falls and trea­sures. I have always liked the fol­low­ing quote from Tron, and while it may seem cliché, I have often thought about the dig­i­tal world similarly.

The Grid. A dig­i­tal fron­tier. I tried to pic­ture clus­ters of infor­ma­tion as they moved through the com­put­er. What did they look like? Ships? motor­cy­cles? Were the cir­cuits like free­ways? I kept dream­ing of a world I thought I’d nev­er see. And then, one day…

- Kevin Fly­nn (Tron 2010)

Enjoy the arti­cles; some of them are tech­ni­cal, oth­ers opin­ion pieces and some project documents.

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