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“On this site I aim to investigate the Technium. What does it want? Why do we embrace it? Is it possible to reject it? How does it relate to God, if at all? What kind of control do we really have on the pace and future path of the Technium itself?”
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” Starting May 31, visitors to New York’s Battery Maritime Building will be able to take part in Byrne’s interactive music installation called simply “Playing the Building.” Like its self-explanatory title implies, the Battery will be fitted with devices
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“What is technology? What does technology mean? Where does technology reside? One
notion of technology, which originated in the Greek téchnÄ“, points to the rational ability
to create and produce. Modern technology grew out of ancient téchnÄ“ by -
“A team of engineers at the University of California at Berkeley has developed a technique for transmitting medical images via cellphones.”
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“You’ve heard of user-generated content? Instead of people recording silly Web cam videos for YouTube or inventing frivolous advocacy groups on Facebook, they can help make the mobile Internet more useful.”
links for 2008-05-13
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“Almost unnoticed last week, the Government announced it had shaved another £1 billion off the cost of its proposed identity card scheme… It did so by deciding to let the “open market” capture citizens’ biometrics, effectively outsourcing the cost of e
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“Skyhook Wireless’ Wi-Fi Positioning System (WPS) is a software-only location solution that allows any Wi-Fi-enabled mobile device to determine its position with an accuracy of 20 meters. Unlike GPS receivers, which use satellites to determine their locat
links for 2008-05-10
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Drinking water everywhere? Self-healing spinal cords? An embedded super PDA that remembers all you hear or say? Lifespans stretching well past the century mark? Sounds like science fiction, but IBM scientists say that projects incubating in labs today mig
links for 2008-05-09
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“Situated Technologies: Toward the Sentient City – An exhibition critically exploring the evolving relationship between ubiquitous/pervasive computing and urban architecture”
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“Conflux is the annual New York festival for contemporary psychogeography, the investigation of everyday urban life through emerging artistic, technological and social practice. At Conflux, visual and sound artists, writers, urban adventurers and the publ
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“Professor Jonathan Zittrain says the latest must-have devices are sealed, “sterile” boxes that stifle creativity and turn consumers into passive users of technology… Unlike home computers, new Internet-enabled gadgets don’t lend themselves to the sort
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“our argument for a more “hope-
ful”research practice is both “ontological”(that urban technologies are, to
some degree, unstable and therefore precarious achievements) and “episte-
mological”(that our knowledge of the practices through
links for 2008-05-06
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An economist journo does a reasonable job linking ‘smart mobs’ to citizen science via Eric Paulos’ “Ergo” air quality sensing project and the broader urban atmospheres work.
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Jessica Kraft sez: “Who says you need a PhD in ecology or a research grant from NASA to make a scientific breakthrough? Citizen science is a growing movement of thousands of amateurs who collect, enter and classify data that would have taken researchers y
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Intel Berkeley’s “Participatory Urbanism” project, which is interlinked with the broader system of “Urban Atmospheres” projects, such as “Ergo”
links for 2008-05-02
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A Masters student’s project: “I came up with the idea of automating call queues for phone banks while trying to organize one for myself, it was a total hassle to find everyone’s phone number on a particular committee, so I built CommitteeCaller last sem
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“A Ghostbike is a junker bike that has been painted stark white and afixed to the site where a cyclist has been hit or killed by a car driver. Ghostbikes are intended to be memorials for the fallen and reminders to everyone to SHARE THE ROAD with one anot
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There was an interesting radio programme aired today about the influences of the political movements surrounding May ’68 upon and from French philosophy (partic. Ecole Superieur). It features interview excerpts with Badiou, Foucault, Henri-Levi, Ranciere
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“Cultural studies has historically concerned itself with the cultural practices of the everyday and the now. However, as a politically motivated discipline, cultural studies has an ongoing preoccupation with cultural, economic, and political change, and t
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“Cati Vaucelle, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab will present two recent projects developed for the Media Lab’s Tangible Media Group focused on Gesture Object Interfaces.
“At the Media Lab, the future is lived, not imagined. In
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BBC News journalist swans around PARC looking at ‘cool’ stuff…
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“Vapor is a survey of new art, architecture and design that takes our declining air quality as the subject matter, medium and metaphor for creative work. Often inspired by forms of activism, the works react to the sources of climate change through the use
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“By anticipatory governance, we mean the ability of a variety of stakeholders and the lay-public to prepare for the issues that NSE may present before those issues are manifest or reified in particular technologies.”
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Richard Donahue’s personal site
links for 2008-04-10
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The blur between future fictions popularised as such and those expounded as forecasts or predictions is a tricky space to navigate, as illustrated by an interview between ‘SF Signal’ and Prof. Michio Kaku
links for 2008-04-09
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“More than 1,000 youngsters are taking part in the two-year study into their physical activity and eating behaviour. Global Positioning System (GPS) watches and waist monitors are worn to measure their movements to and from school.”
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“The Digital Geographics Group at Microsoft Research India seeks to further the state-of-the-art in the representation, analysis, and visualization of digitized geographic information. As location-aware technologies such as GPS and geographic information
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Microsoft’s ubicomp research page (apparently)
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“Every object has a story to tell, and some of those stories are pretty important… the labels on objects only tell a part of that story”
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The Microsoft Community Technologies Group, which aims:
“To collect, measure, map, and explore data about social cyberspaces focusing on conversation and discussion environments.”
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“Origami is a code name for a small project with big plans. Our team wants to make Ultra-Mobile PCs a device you won’t leave home without, but we need your help…”
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Commentary on the Microsoft “vision of a future health service” video.
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A ‘future vision’ of banking, including ‘magical’ gadgets with all the fantastical bells and whistles one might desire, from Microsoft’s Industry Innovation Group
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“When Brian [Eno] first moved to New York City he found that in New York here and now meant this room and this five minutes, as opposed to the larger here and longer now that he was used to in England. We have since adopted the term as the title of our fo
links for 2008-04-08
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“The real-time city is now real! The increasing deployment of sensors and hand-held electronics in recent years is allowing a new approach to the study of the built environment. The way we describe and understand cities is being radically transformed – al
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An interesting precis of a recent talk given by a PhD candidate positively recounting future aspirations for the web: “The vision of the future described in the interview is beautiful. It’s one of the most clear explanations of the semantic web and what s