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Posted 5 days ago
Flooded London: Media designers Squint/Opera have come up with a project they call Flooded London: 2090, a set of illustrations of London in a late global warming world. As a piece of anticipatory
Tags: system
Posted 1 week ago
A few people have asked me what I thought of Karl Schroeder's recent article at Worldchanging, No Time for the Singularity. Karl argues that we can't count on super-intelligent AIs to save us from e
Posted 1 week ago
As anyone who has built a tower out of blocks or LEGO knows, as they get taller, the more small movements at the base can be magnified into catastrophic motion at the top. This is just as true for sky
Posted 1 week ago
This happened a couple of years ago, but I was just reminded of it again recently (and it didn't receive the attention it deserves).The story of the Guiding Hand Social Club and the Valentine Operativ
Posted 1 week ago
Nice little future you got there. Hate to see something bad happen to it.The blending of the physical and immersive digital worlds -- the metaverse -- inevitably produces bizarre results. I've noted (
Posted 2 weeks ago
Here's the talk I gave at Moodle Moot San Francisco last week. It runs about 70 minutes -- yeah, I spoke for over an hour -- and the slides aren't visible. Fortunately, I really only use slides for il
Posted 2 weeks ago
Okay, back from DC and a long weekend trip away. Rested and ready, as it were. Here are a few items piled up in the old Intertube drift net. More serious stuff coming. My Old Workplace: Stephen Colber
Posted 3 weeks ago
What happens when not only have the tools of documenting the world become democratized, so too have the tools for manipulating our interpretations of reality?The rise of technologies of ubiquitous per
Posted 4 weeks ago
I spent the last few days in Washington, DC, a guest of the National Endowment for the Arts. Not many people know this, but design -- particularly architectural and built-environment design -- falls w
Tags: program
Posted 4 weeks ago
Doesn't matter whether you were for him or for someone else, today is truly an inflection point in history. It's the delivery of a promise made in the years long past and sometimes thought abandoned.
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