As We May Think
As the scientist of the future moves about the laboratory or the field, every time he looks at something worthy of the record, he trips the shutter and in it goes, without even an audible click.
As We May Think
Our experience and cynicism teach us that this is a panopticon dystopia, not something to be marvelled at. Need to re-assess?
The lens is of universal focus, down to any distance accommodated by the unaided eye, simply because it is of short focal length.
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This was desirable to Bush, and presumably, his contemporaries. Soft focus/out-of-focus areas were not then desirable or being used as artistic tools with the justification of drawing compositional attention more efficiently.
The world has arrived at an age of cheap complex devices of great reliability; and something is bound to come of it.
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What has been produced from the availability of these cheap complex devices?
Moreover, it would have been subject to frequent breakdown, so that it could not have been depended upon; for at that time and long after, complexity and unreliability were synonymous.
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Do new media and technologies succeed when they meet a moment that they can be manufactured or spread reliably?
It is the physicists who have been thrown most violently off stride, who have left academic pursuits for the making of strange destructive gadgets, who have had to devise new methods for their unanticipated assignments. They have done their part on the devices that made it possible to turn back the enemy, have worked in combined effort with the... See more
As We May Think
Are projects like AI enticing to developers and architects because they are the only projects actually worthy of their best effort?