I’m winding down for the winterval so here’s some things I pressed ‘favourite’ for on Twitter but haven’t really had the time or inclination to blog about…
David Link’s Monster Resurrection: an archaeology of calculating machines @ ZKM
Monetesing music – Andrew Leyshon
Rachel O’Dwyer on block chains – talk for Programmable Cities: ‘governance by design’
Imogen Heap on dot-music and Mycelia
Educating the Smart City – paper in Big data & Society by Ben Williamson
The sad economics of being famous on the internet –Gaby Dunn
List of OA journals in my field – geography, political ecology, social science – Simon Batterbury
Machines Reshape More Jobs Than They Destroy –– “Fewer than 5 percent of jobs are likely to be completely replaced by computers, according to a recent report by McKinsey & Company consulting firm.”
Academics & journalists use word “algorithms” to talk about #BigData in society because they don’t know how tech works (machine learning)
– manovich (@manovich) December 11, 2015
@manovich I would like to see #algorithm specified every time, so not “machine learning” but, say, “k nearest neighbour” #WhichAlgorithm
– Louise Amoore (@AmooreLouise) December 11, 2015
Ad Boycott https://t.co/8g3kPwvy0K pic.twitter.com/p164rmddKL
– MIT Tech Review (@techreview) December 13, 2015
The internet consumes about 9.2% of the world’s electricity. (Sources: https://t.co/hK7kf03tag // https://t.co/eak4PwM8MI )
– Nick Srnicek (@n_srnck) December 18, 2015
“A universal system of geography” | spotted in the Port #QMULMumbai2015pic.twitter.com/BUceasztsX
– Stephen Taylor (@w_s_taylor) December 15, 2015
Watch this amazing timelapse of a unique piece of street art created in Bristol to launch the 2016 #6MusicFestival https://t.co/iHAEcAw3jQ
– BBC Radio 6 Music (@BBC6Music) December 16, 2015
This has been tweeted a lot, talk at Google by Yuval Harari Techno-Religions and Silicon Prophets
and… the trailer for Highrise: