Fravia died on Sunday, 3rd May 2009

http://www.fravia.com/

by mpk • 17 years ago

40 18 17 years ago

mpk• 17 years ago

.. and I am sad. A great man has passed.

There's days that I wish that people like Ray Kurzweil are correct about the Singularity. When that day comes, what we cherish the most will no longer be lost unwillingly.

tdavis4• 17 years ago

At which point we will cease to cherish it.

gort• 17 years ago

Fine. That which is important shouldn't be fragile enough to need cherishing.

byrneseyeview• 17 years ago

You don't cherish things like clean water and computers?

staunch• 17 years ago

I frequently wish that I was born a few hundred years later than I was. Then I remind myself that I'm lucky I wasn't born a few hundred years earlier. Which isn't quite enough to balance out my disappointment at being in this time.

phugoid• 17 years ago

At any point in time, there were always skilled technical people pushing the edge of their trade. I had the privilege of visiting a Viking museum in Oslo, where I had an epiphany.

Did you know that 1000 years ago, viking smiths were smelting iron from bog peat, and making swords from it?

http://www.hurstwic.org/history/articles/manufacturing/text/...

And then you have their outrageously sophisticated and evolved ships. I'd like to think that if I lived back there, I would have gotten involved with something like that.

tdavis4• 17 years ago

You're only disappointed because you're looking at the future from a perspective of the present. People from the future won't understand why you think you're missing what they have.

If you're disappointed by the generation in which you live, you're doing it wrong. When you talk on a cell phone? That shit is being sent to outer space! Incomprehensible!

brfox• 17 years ago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fravia

pygy• 17 years ago

If you don't have the time to contribute to the article, but know about some source of information about him (required to add anything to a Wikipedia biography), please drop them here :

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Fravia&ac...

(link to the input form of the proper section in the talk page).

damir• 17 years ago

I've learned a lot from his pages... Thanks Fravia!

jgrant27• 17 years ago

Awful news, another great mind and soul has left us ...

Guatejon• 17 years ago

How sad. I learned so much about searching the web from him. I always found his web site painful to use but the time spent there was very rewarding.

dynamicA4• 17 years ago

That sent shivers down my spine. I attended a lecture of his in 2003 in London. On the train there he sat onfront of me, at the time I had no idea who he was, I had never seen or heard of him, but for some reason, I just knew he was going to be talking at the series of lectures I was heading to. Don't ask me how. It was really weird. Anyway, his lecture was fascinating. Truely. For several years after I read his site and learnt incredible things. I hadn't been to the site for a few years and for some reason he popped into my head last weekend and so I went pocking about the site again. Just checked my browser history, it was the 2nd May, the day before he died. The first two lines of a Bob Marley song come to mind "Theres a natural mystic blowing through the air; If you listen carefully now you will hear". I have no doubt there was something special about the Fravia chap. RIP.

gourneau• 17 years ago

He was a good human. I just realized that I have benefited from his works in the past, after watching this video about using RFID tracking for omniscient like marketing metrics: http://www.boingboing.net/2009/05/08/rfids-on-the-brain.html

Which reminded me of this article on his site (that I found via "reality hacking" on the wikipedia) http://www.searchlores.org/realicra/slaves.htm

It was so powerful to me then that I recall wondering around campus slightly dazed and confused afterwards.

He will be missed.

Fravia died on Sunday, 3rd May 2009

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