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The most fundamental software infrastructure has become commoditized to the point where most of the innovation is now created at the interface with end users. In the consumer internet world in particular, the marginal cost of software is zero, and design is now the differentiator.
... While texts often build and maintain an internal and pre-set collection of references in the form of footnotes, prior foundational texts, or subtle cultural “calls” to “events or people or tropes of the time and place the text was written,” it’s a far more personal practice to form one’s own links in an inter-textual manner.... See more
I’d like to think
Édouard Urcades
“I oftentimes describe rap music as the post-occupancy evaluation of modernism ... saying that once we design and construct a space, we oftentimes go back and see how successful that architecture may have been, and that evaluation allows us to design the next space even better. That hasn't happened with public housing, or it's happening on a very s... See more
Can Hip-Hop Inspire A New Generation Of Architects?
“we carry ancient beaches in our
pockets, transformed into prediction engines, each grain calculating our next desire.”
pockets, transformed into prediction engines, each grain calculating our next desire.”