“And even if we don’t care about them having legal rights, there’s still good reason to treat AIs with respect. Think about the pets of neglectful owners, or the lovers who have never stayed with someone longer than a month; are they the pets or lovers you would choose? Think about the kind of people that bad parenting produces; are those the people you want to have as your friends or your employees? No matter what roles we assign AIs, I suspect they will do a better job if, at some point during their development, there were people who cared about them.”
“By not seeing borders, designers expand their possibilities at a time when websites are spilling off desktops onto streets and computing in public is becoming a behavioural norm. With the blurring of borders between disciplines, and across devices, time zones and communication spaces comes a new mode of collaboration. The changes necessitate a new form of collaborative enterprise - not just with team members, but with the target audience.”
The picturephone of the year 2012 as predicted by French chocolate company Lombart in 1912 (via paleofuture)
“In short I believe that the way our business now tends to make “being interesting” subordinate to “being logical” is the single greatest reason why a lot of advertising is awful.”
— Rory Sutherland - Who make better planners? Planners or creatives?
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.”
A Year’s Worth of Play All On One Map by Mudlark is an interactive map of London’s Underground showing all of the journeys made through each station in 2011 by people playing Chromaroma in the capital.
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.
Haptic Intelligentsia by Studio Homonculus is a human 3D printing machine that allows the user to tactually perceive the virtual object and to directly transform it into the physical. The user can freely move the extruding gun, which is attached to a haptic interface. When the tip of the gun is moved into a surface region of the virtual object, the interface generates forces under computer control, allowing the user to feel and touch the surface of the object.
