From the monthly archives: November 2008
Cory Doctorow: willing science fiction into fact | Guardian Doctorow interviewed on his book 'Little Brother': "I'm a presentist," he says, smiling broadly as he leans back in his chair. "All science fiction writers, whether they admit it or not, are writing metaphorically about the present. To extrapolate the future is really to comment [...]
Pasta&Vinegar » Blog Archive » blended ecologies pics Nova highlights Bleeker's participation in the IFTF 'Blended Realities' programme, incl. pics. (tags: iftf blended-realities ubicomp futurism anticipation foresight vision) kashklash:: exchanging the future "KashKlash is a space to share thoughts on, and to shape, the future; a [...]
Towards the end of a recent meeting with my supervisors I was asked a question that went something along the lines of: “do you buy the argument that if something is computational, that it is then necessarily reductive?” An excellent question I think. I suggested at the time, and still believe, there [...]
The central quote, by Robert Noyce, from this exhibit at the Intel museum is: “Optimism is the central ingredient for innovation. How else can the individual welcome change over security, adventure over staying in safe places”.
Image taken from Tacita Dean – Disappearance at Sea
In September 1991 Scientific American had a special issue focussing on ‘Communications, Computers and Networks’. An impressive array of articles were collected in this issue, including Mark Weiser’s ‘The Computer for the 21st Century‘, which is often referred to as [...]
The Long Road To The Laptop: – BusinessWeek Marvelous cartoon biography of Alan Kay's vision of the dynabook, the first notion of a 'portable' personal computer. Alan Kay was the Xerox PARC chap that said 'Look, the best way to predict the future is to invent it'. (tags: computing futurism comics [...]
Joseph Lambert has created, for Business Week, a marvelous cartoon, following Steve Hamm’s new book, charting Alan Kay’s significant role in the development of the personal computer and, [...]
A Media Uncertainty Principle — Jasny et al. 283 (5407): 1453 — Science "The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, stated simply, holds that the act of observing an electron perturbs it so that its position and momentum cannot be measured simultaneously. A modest logical extrapolation might engender a Media Uncertainty Principle: when the mass media cover [...]
Celebrating the UK's computer pioneers Proof positive that Britain played a big part in the development of the modern computer. (tags: computing history UK)
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