January 2012
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“Robots can be said to have their own culture precisely because they don’t need...”
– Stuart Geiger - The ethnography of robots
Jan 27th
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Jan 27th
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“He found this response of “it’s old” (and therefore it’s...”
– John Maeda - Old vs New vs Good
Jan 27th
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Jan 27th
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Jan 27th
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Jan 26th
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“We believe that the next step in copying will be made from digital form into...”
– The Pirate Bay - Evolution: New Category
Jan 24th
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Jan 19th
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Jan 19th
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Jan 19th
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Jan 19th
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“Pretty much every TV at CES had the same functionality: Wi-Fi. Gesture control....”
– Chris Heathcote - Sand in the Vaseline
Jan 19th
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Jan 17th
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“Nine-fifteen, sang the clock, time to clean. Out of warrens in the wall, tiny...”
– Ray Bradbury - There Will Come Soft Rains
Jan 17th
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Jan 15th
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“In this electric age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the...”
– Marshall McLuhan - Understanding Media
Jan 15th
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“There be those who say that things and places have souls, and there be those who...”
– H.P. Lovecraft
Jan 14th
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“It starts off with “huh?”, a sense of mystification about what the algorithm...”
– Greg Borenstein - Machine Pareidolia: Hello Little Fella meets FaceTracker
Jan 14th
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Jan 14th
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“The Techno Rebels are, whether they recognise it or not, agents of the Third...”
– Alvin Toffler - The Third Wave (1980)
Jan 14th
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“I don’t like [the Turing Test] that much, in part because I don’t...”
– Peter Norvig - Google’s go-to AI guy sees phones getting much smarter
Jan 13th
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Jan 11th
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Jan 9th
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“And even if we don’t care about them having legal rights, there’s still good...”
– Ted Chiang
Jan 9th
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December 2011
22 posts
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“By not seeing borders, designers expand their possibilities at a time when...”
– Liz Danzico - Where The Borders Are
Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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“In short I believe that the way our business now tends to make “being...”
– Rory Sutherland - Who make better planners? Planners or creatives?
Dec 19th
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Alley Posts by James George is “an old tourist movie from the future. filmed in an evening walking the streets of Barcelona with a handheld 3d scanner.”
Dec 19th
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Dec 16th
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reaDIYmate is about assembling your own wifi-connected gizmo in a few minutes. Personalize its shape. Change its behaviour on the web or your iPhone. Have it interact with your digital life and other reaDIYmate things in the real world. www.readiymate.com
Dec 16th
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Dec 15th
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Dec 15th
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Dec 15th
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Dec 14th
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Sine Sole Soleo (without the sun I’m silent) by Daniel Soltis (whilst at Tinker) is a kinetic sundial that responds to light from any direction, adjusting its position until a shadow falls on the correct time.
Dec 13th
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“Thousands of Twitter accounts apparently created in advance to blast automated...”
– Twitter Bots Drown Out Anti-Kremlin Tweets
Dec 9th
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Dec 9th
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Dec 6th
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Dec 6th
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Dec 5th
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Dec 5th
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Dec 2nd
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Dec 2nd
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Dec 1st
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Dec 1st
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Dec 1st
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November 2011
43 posts
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Nov 29th
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Nov 28th
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Nov 28th
32 notes
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Nov 28th