Comments on: On the necessity of windows http://it.gen.nz/2008/11/03/on-the-necessity-of-windows/ Writings on technology and society from Wellington, New Zealand Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:57:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: colin http://it.gen.nz/2008/11/03/on-the-necessity-of-windows/comment-page-1/#comment-1213 colin Sun, 16 Nov 2008 21:50:49 +0000 http://it.gen.nz/?p=339#comment-1213 Alisdair Sorry, your comment got caught in my spam trap. Yes, I well remember and enjoyed Bob Shaw's notions about Slow Glass. I liked the way he took one technical innovation and tried to explore the social implications. Cheers Colin Alisdair

Sorry, your comment got caught in my spam trap.

Yes, I well remember and enjoyed Bob Shaw’s notions about Slow Glass. I liked the way he took one technical innovation and tried to explore the social implications.

Cheers

Colin

]]> By: Alisdair McKenzie http://it.gen.nz/2008/11/03/on-the-necessity-of-windows/comment-page-1/#comment-1178 Alisdair McKenzie Thu, 06 Nov 2008 22:59:15 +0000 http://it.gen.nz/?p=339#comment-1178 Sounds like an ideal opportunity for a "Slow Glass" salesman so that you could have a view if you were suffering from insomnia or claustrophobia. See Bob Shaw's "Light of other Days" at http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/classics/classics_archive/shaw/shaw1.html and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_light Sounds like an ideal opportunity for a “Slow Glass” salesman so that you could have a view if you were suffering from insomnia or claustrophobia.

See Bob Shaw’s “Light of other Days” at

http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/classics/classics_archive/shaw/shaw1.html

and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_light

]]> By: Tim McKenzie http://it.gen.nz/2008/11/03/on-the-necessity-of-windows/comment-page-1/#comment-1167 Tim McKenzie Tue, 04 Nov 2008 03:53:07 +0000 http://it.gen.nz/?p=339#comment-1167 I once had a window-less office at a university. It wasn't a pleasant room to be in. It might have been less unpleasant if all I ever did in there was sleep. (I remember only one occasion when I did sleep in there.) I once had a window-less office at a university. It wasn’t a pleasant room to be in. It might have been less unpleasant if all I ever did in there was sleep. (I remember only one occasion when I did sleep in there.)

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