July 2009
45 posts
6 Homes of the Future →
Here are 6 videos spanning 50 years of predictions about our glorious technological future at home. What I love about all of these are the incidental predictions that need to happen when the videos…
“A novel set in the “real world” now has to answer the question, “Which one?”
– The rule of exceptions « science fictional
South Africa's ATMs Get Weaponized with Pepper... →
“An additional 17 percent are sad because Dubai now looks like the kind of...”
– In Teetering Dubai, New Metro And World’s Tallest Building About To Debut (Photo Tour) » INFRASTRUCTURIST
“Often, it seems like the CEOs of newspaper companies are talking only among...”
– What a Persuasive-Technology Psychologist Can Tell Us About Paying for News Online
Broken Windows: A Terrorist Plot →
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Published as an article in 1982, the Broken Windows theory is the the idea that the little things are what make the difference between an…
[0907.3432] Fermi's Paradox - The Last Challenge... →
Very long. Very worth reading. The giga-scale thinking involved in Fermi’s paradox is a breath of fresh air if you’ve been spending weeks worrying about whatever little details in your tiny little life.
3 Stories About Regional Architecture →
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Over at Inventing Green, Alexis Madrigal looks at the adoption of air-conditioners. He talks about how the rise of electrical cooling seems…
3 Stories About Regional Architecture →
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Over at Inventing Green, Alexis Madrigal looks at the adoption of air-conditioners. He talks about how the rise of electrical cooling seems…
“…forming Tolkien-esque towns accessible through multiple airlocks…”
– BLDGBLOG: “Instant City” on Mars
Six Points On a Continuum: Cyborgs and Architects... →
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This’ll be the last explicit post about Cyborgs and Architects for awhile (here are parts 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5). Having set up and then…
axis mundi unveils conceptual design for MoMA... →
Cyborgs and Architects 5 →
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In 4 Jonah poked some holes the Architect half of the division I’d set up. I’d like to spend 5 looking at the Cyborg’s story.
In the first two…
“Detroit lost to a better, new product; newspapers, to the vague suggestion of...”
– Build the Wall : CJR
“The slope of progress can be changed by pouring money down it.”
– The Technium: Was Moore’s Law Inevitable?
“Indeed, familiarity breeds content.”
– Brian Eno, Wired 7.01: The Revenge of the Intuitive
“The shuttle is now too dangerous, too fragile and too expensive. Seven more...”
– RealClearPolitics - The Moon We Left Behind
“The very question begs another. If humans went extinct tomorrow, what evidence...”
– Strange Horizons Articles: Was There Ever a Dinosaur Civilization?, by Brian Trent
“But here’s the tricky part: the government won’t even say what those 1,370...”
– Canadian Lawyer Magazine - Censorship in the Internet age
“Even the choice of destination was parochial and impulsive; the moon, after all,...”
– Hilobrow | Middlebrow is not the solution
“He is using a fully-depreciated, 20-plus-year-old CNC...”
– The New American Post-Industrial Microenterprise | Think.Design | Fast Company
Cyborgs and Architects 4 →
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Impromptu guest post! I’m taking the liberty of reposting this comment about 3 by Jonah from still crapulent.
This cyborg-architecture…
“If the product is used as a tool, its interface should be as unintelligent as...”
– Unqualified Reservations: Wolfram Alpha and hubristic user interfaces
Cyborgs and Architects 3 →
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As I conceive it, the conflict of cyborgs and architecture is the story of nomads and homesteaders, recast in very 21st century terms. Cyborgs…
Cyborgs and Architects 2 →
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In the 1960s NASA was still entertaining the idea that humans might actually go to space and, you know, stay. While they were designing and…
Cyborgs and Architects →
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As part of the Cultural Theory program, I took a university course called Cyborgs. This was in 1999 and it was cutting edge to give a presentation…
WatchMatt Webb - Scope - reboot video ((Watch this.))
“When you turn on your MiFi and wait 30 seconds, it provides a personal,...”
– State of the Art - With a Private MiFi Hot Spot, Be Online Wherever You Like - NYTimes.com