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On Human Networks & Living Biosystems
Increasingly, we live in a world defined by flat networks. Folks like Clay Shirky, Ben Hammersley, and others have observed in great detail how the design patterns of the internet are challenging and...
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The Future of Facebook
I recently participated in the Future of Facebook project that Venessa Miemis & Alvis Brigis have launched as part of their efforts towards an Open Foresight platform. The full collection of...
View ArticleAmon Tobin ISAM – Mixed-Media Sound & Projection Mapping
I saw Amon Tobin’s ISAM project a week ago at The Warfield theater in San Francisco. Literally jaw-dropping. Visualizing ISAM from Leviathan on Vimeo. Leviathan worked with frequent collaborator and...
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Top Post Round-Up: OWS, Ubicomp, Hyperconnectivity, & Transhumanity
I’ve just returned from a very interesting workshop in Washington, D.C. about fast-moving change, asymmetric threats to security, and finding signals within the wall of noise thrown up by big data....
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A Few More Notes on Machine Aesthetics
Olympus glitch, from Year of the Glitch Scott Smith has a nice article about Our Complicated Love-Hate Relationship With Robots, exploring how robotics have been seeping into the public dialog of late....
View ArticleExtended Senses & Invisible Fences – Vid of My ARE2012 Talk
Extended Senses & Invisible Fences – Chris Arkenberg ARE2012 from chris 23 on Vimeo. A 15min presentation on the emerging ubicomp interface of the urban landscape Also, here’s the full slide deck.
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Valve signals hardware is the future of distribution
Gabe Newell, the co-founder and managing director at PC gaming powerhouse Valve Software, recently spoke with Kotaku about the shifting landscape of games distribution and his company’s move into the...
View ArticleVirtual Hitmen Hired To Curb Son’s Gaming Addiction
From China, this article tickles my sic-fi bone in just the right way. It’s one of those news bits that seems enfolded out of the future just to remind us how odd and accelerated we are in the present....
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Coherency in Contradiction
Coherency in Contradiction is the main research project I’ve been working on as a Research Fellow at the Deloitte Center for the Edge as part of the 2013 Shift Index. It’s just been published at...
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Cybernetic jurisdictions and the Things of Internets
She got a TV eye on me… Walled gardens are jurisdictions that exercise control over behaviors. Facebook determines what constitutes acceptable speech. Apple determines what applications are fit for...
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