Did you know that everyone who visits the Stripe office in NYC gets to take home a Stripe Press book? (At the Zora office you get Zorb stickers which are also delightful)
My grandfather worked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard and my great uncle ran the physics program for the US Navy here. My dad grew up running around this neighborhood in the 60s before moving to California to work in aerospace. He transitioned his career to internet infrastructure a few years before the Web 1.0 boom, right around the time I was born. The Navy Yard used to be full of aircraft carriers and submarines. Now there鈥檚 a shiny modern WeWork where I design software on my laptop and take breaks to watch the clouds drift over the skyscrapers in Manhattan.
I like to think (and
the sooner the better!)
of a cybernetic meadow
where mammals and computers
live together in mutually
programming harmony
like pure water
touching clear sky.
I like to think
(right now, please!)
of a cybernetic forest
filled with pines and electronics
where deer stroll peacefully
past computers
as if they were flowers
with spinning blossoms.
I like to think
(it has to be!)
of a cybernetic ecology
where we are free of our labors
and joined back to nature,
returned to our mammal
brothers and sisters,
and all watched over
by machines of loving grace.
- Richard Brautigan, 1967
