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"You can choose to sleepwalk through life and accept the path that's been laid out for you. You can choose to accept the world as it is. But you don't have to. If there's something in the world you feel is wrong, and you have a vision for what a better world could be, you can find your guiding principle, and fight for a cause."
Rui Oliveira • Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle
PERPETUAL TRANSFORMATION... AND TO WHAT END
The reason I write about technology, is to provide a trail of my thoughts as we work through what it means to be molded by the tools we seek to mold.
We are absolutely massaged over by technology. And the internet, what has taken over more of our perceived reality than the truly experienced physical... See more
The reason I write about technology, is to provide a trail of my thoughts as we work through what it means to be molded by the tools we seek to mold.
We are absolutely massaged over by technology. And the internet, what has taken over more of our perceived reality than the truly experienced physical... See more
Reggie James • Rough Notes: Memory, Identity, and Transformation
Innovating within an existing platform is always a challenge, because as media theorist Marshall McLuhan argued decades ago, ‘the medium is the message’. TikTok and Twitter/X have short-form content built into the design of the platform, which prevents depth. As I explore in The Bigger Picture, this also leads to what philosopher C. Thi Nguyen... See more
Alexander Beiner • Myth and Metrics: How Social Media Robs Us of Ritual, and How to Revive It
On how kids create models of communities using rap lyrics
MF: “They literally create a community that the density and the scale is based on their favorite rapper. So when we talk about heights, they're not picking an arbitrary height, say I want a building that’s five stories or a building that’s 13 stories. If your favorite rapper is Lupe Fiasco,... See more
MF: “They literally create a community that the density and the scale is based on their favorite rapper. So when we talk about heights, they're not picking an arbitrary height, say I want a building that’s five stories or a building that’s 13 stories. If your favorite rapper is Lupe Fiasco,... See more
Michael Ford • Can Hip-Hop Inspire A New Generation Of Architects?
By enshrining trade-offs in the mode of thinking of policymakers, and business people, and problem solvers, what you’ve actually done is create an incredibly infertile ground for creative ideas . Because you basically treat the trade-off as if it’s kind of just part of the system. I have to ask the question of this kind of obsession with... See more
Kris Abdelmessih • The Third Eye
What are the major challenges we face?... See more
Let’s go for global warming, peak oil and ubiquitous computing.
Ubiquitous computing?
Totally ubiquitous computing. One of the things our grandchildren will find quaintest about us is that we distinguish the digital from the real, the virtual from the real. In the future, that will become literally
William Gibson: The Rolling Stone 40th Anniversary Interview - The Travelin' Librarian
William Gibson: The Rolling Stone 40th Anniversary Interview