February 2012
24 posts
“The adjacent possible is a kind of shadow future, hovering on the edges of the...”
– Steven Johnson (via inthenoosphere)
“Andy Newberg, a neuroscientist/physician with a background in space medicine, is...”
– Space Euphoria: Do Our Brains Change When We Travel in Outer Space? (via slavin)
A Momentary Flow: Single-atom transistor is ‘end... →
wildcat2030:
Via Scoop.it - Knowmads, Infocology of the future The smallest transistor ever built has been created using a single phosphorous atom by an international team of researchers at the University of New South Wales, Purdue University and the University of Melbourne.The latest Intel chip, the…
http://www.pwrshare.info/2/graham-digital-divide.pd... →
It is frequently argued that the ‘digital divide’ is one of the most significant development issues facing impoverished regions of the world. Yet, even though the term is inherently spatial, there have been no sustained efforts to examine the geographic assumptions underlying discourses of the ‘digital divide.’ This article traces the history of the term, reviewing some of its tangible...
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“Every form of media in some sense has [an] ability to displace people in their...”
– Will Wright
Handy Vandal’s Almanac » Blog Archive » Will Wright on video game addiction - Resources for Game Designers
Alexander Klöpping: Mogelijk was heel KPN in... →
alexandernl:
KPN was altijd de degelijke provider. Bellen en internetten zonder opsmuk. Met betrouwbare dienstverlening, sympathieke reclames en overzichtelijke Primafoon-winkels. Duidelijk, ultiem Nederlands, en zonder fratsen.
Het betrouwbare imago van KPN heeft deze week een enorme klap gekregen. Woensdag…
A Momentary Flow: Biological computer encrypts and... →
wildcat2030:
Via Scoop.it - Knowmads, Infocology of the future Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute in California and the Technion — Israel Institute of Technology — have developed a “biological computer” made entirely from biomolecules that is capable of deciphering images encrypted on DNA…
WatchNo Clipping (by James George)
“Maybe you don’t need a new house. Maybe you need to leave your wife.”
– Cedric Price
January 2012
13 posts
Click here to stop the newest threat to Internet... →
A new global treaty could allow corporations to police what we do on the Internet. Last week we successfully pushed back the US censorship bills — if we act now, we can get the EU Parliament to bury this new threat — add your voice now!
Space in Theory; Kristeva Foucault Deleuze... →
Postmodern Geographies The Reassertion of Space in... →
Lapidarium notes: ‘To understand is to perceive... →
aminotes:
‘To understand is to perceive patterns’
“Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.”
— James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood, Pantheon, 2011
“Humans are pattern-seeking story-telling animals, and…
“ “There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect...”
– Chuck Palahniuk, American transgressional fiction novelist and freelance journalist, Survivor, W. W. Norton, 1999. (Illustration: Termes Thoughts) See also: ☞ ‘To understand is to perceive patterns’ (via amiquote)
WatchRave Against the Machine (by …FIN)
December 2011
13 posts
Watchcuriositycounts:
Robot Wars – fascinating and thought-provoking Al Jazeera Faultlines segment on robot ethics and war (via)
Watch(via George Dyson at the birth of the computer | Video on TED.com)
Chris Anderson: Why the Internet of Things finally... →
smarterplanet:
After a decade of hearing about “the Internet of things”, where everything will have an IP address, I’m starting to finally believe it. What’s changed? The Open Hardware movement, which is doing for connected devices what the Web did for information. The old vision of the Internet of Things came to us from the likes of Cisco and Nokia, which were trying to promote end-to-end...
Bid to program new life forms with 'operating... →
openscience:
“Now imagine trying to design a similar operating system not for a laptop, a PC or even a smartphone, but rather for something much, much tinier — a living biological cell. This is exactly what a group of scientists at the University of Nottingham, in England, will attempt to do as part of a five-year, $1.58 million research project that has been aptly named AudACiOus — which,...
The Tascam iOS microphone is a beast
bitshare:
If you are in the sound recording industry of any magnitude, let me introduce you to this beastly looking thing, which looks like a bazooka hanging off the end of an iPhone.
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