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Digital games are important not only because of their cultural ubiquity or their sales figures but for what they can offer as a space…

January 25 2012, 4:50am | Comments

Twitter Links The Pirate Bay - Physibles

Today most data is born digitally. It's not about the transition from analog to digital anymore. We don't talk about how to rip anything…

January 24 2012, 3:11pm | Comments

Link Kids, unlike adults, think technology is fundamentally human

With children so easy to embrace robotics, it’s clear that there’s a ton of potential for integrating intelligent technologies into learning environments. Besides, the idea of “exploring and creating” sounds…

January 19 2012, 3:13am | Comments

Link Kopimism: the world's newest religion explained

Isak Gerson is spiritual leader of the world's newest religion, Kopimism, devoted to file-sharing. On 5 January the Church of Kopimism was formally recognised as a religion by the Swedish…

January 15 2012, 2:32pm | Comments

Link The Era of Networked Science

The Internet may well have its downsides, but it also has the potential to make us collectively smarter, according to open-science advocate Michael Nielsen. In Reinventing Discovery: The New Era…

January 13 2012, 3:41am | Comments

Findings quote from High Techne - Rutsky

The position of human beings in relation to this techno-cultural un-conscious cannot, therefore, be that of the analyst (or theorist) who, standing outside this space, presumes to know or control it.It must in-stead be a relation of connection…

January 6 2012, 8:52am | Comments

Twitter Links File Sharing Is Now an Official Religion In Sweden

The Missionary Church of Kopimism: "I think that more people will have the courage to step out as Kopimists. Maybe not in the public,…

January 4 2012, 10:52am | Comments

Link It’s Only Humanist

To me it tastes like a desire to locate man’s place in a world that he perceives primarily with the aid of machines. The art of the Greeks has been…

January 4 2012, 10:16am | Comments

Link Human Brain Is Limiting Global Data Growth

Evidence has emerged that the brain's capacity to absorb information is limiting the amount of data humanity can produce

December 9 2011, 9:35am | Comments

Link A computer that thinks like the universe

For years, excitement about quantum computing has been growing among scientists and tech visionaries. Quantum computers, if they succeed, promise to make a whole new range of problems accessible to…

December 3 2011, 3:10am | Comments

Link Tom McCarthy: My desktop

I must belong to the only generation of writers who've written with all three of inkpen, typewriter and computer. It definitely matters: the technology colours not only the rhythm but…

November 27 2011, 10:34am | Comments

Twitter Links On Victor Tausk's 'The Influencing Machine'

Influencing Machines are described by their troubled inventors as complex structures, constructed of “boxes, cranks, levers, wheels, buttons, wires, batteries and the like.” Sometimes…

October 25 2011, 3:21am | Comments

Link The Constraint Histories of Digital Games

Attempts to provide a taxonomy of game genres founder on the lack of consistent criteria, and usually have to be arbitrarily assigned. Connecting ‘shooters’ into a lineage suggests scrolling shooters…

October 19 2011, 3:25am | Comments

Link The Great Tech War Of 2012

And as every sci-fi nerd knows, you totally need a tricked-out battleship if you're about to engage in serious battle. To state this as clearly as possible: The four American…

October 17 2011, 12:25pm | Comments

Link Do Androids Dream of Electric Authors?

But the invasion of robot-books is unsettling for another reason. I think we can all agree that it’s O.K. for robots to take over unpleasant jobs — like cleaning up…

October 16 2011, 7:04am | Comments

Link Innovation Starvation

SF has changed over the span of time I am talking about—from the 1950s (the era of the development of nuclear power, jet airplanes, the space race, and the computer)…

October 2 2011, 4:47am | Comments

Link On Science Transfer

“Faster.” Could any other word better capture the reigning paradox of our age? The world today—whether measured in technological or ecological terms—appears to be changing more rapidly than ever before.…

September 29 2011, 4:01am | Comments

Twitter Links How the refrigerator got its hum

The "history of technology is a history of failed machines; of routes we didn’t take, not the ones we did"

September 26 2011, 4:54am | Comments

Link The ancient cloud

The crowd-sourced, wikinomic cloud is the new, new thing that all management consultants are now telling their clients to embrace. Yet the cloud is not a new thing at all.…

September 24 2011, 8:50am | Comments

Link How Can We Understand Code as a "Critical…

The working definition for Critical Code Studies (CCS) is "the application of humanities style hermeneutics to the interpretation of computer source code." However, lately, I have found it more useful…

September 21 2011, 4:23am | Comments

Twitter Links The Mechanic Muse — From Scroll to Screen

The Mechanic Muse: a brief history of reading devices from scroll to screen http://t.co/0bYUTKp4 #x #technology #reading #codex #search

September 20 2011, 8:45pm | Comments

Link How Can We Understand Code as a "Critical…

The working definition for Critical Code Studies (CCS) is "the application of humanities style hermeneutics to the interpretation of computer source code." However, lately, I have found it more useful…

September 20 2011, 10:26am | Comments

Twitter Links The Mechanic Muse — From Scroll to Screen - NYTimes.com

The Mechanic Muse: a brief history of reading devices from scroll to screen http://t.co/0bYUTKp4 #x #technology #reading #codex #search

September 19 2011, 1:29am | Comments

Twitter Links From Scroll to Screen

The Mechanic Muse: a brief history of reading devices from scroll to screen

September 16 2011, 6:52am | Comments

Twitter Links How Star Trek artists imagined the iPad... 23 years ago

Warning: Contains obligatory reference to Minority Report's Tom-Cruise-Swishy-Hands-Sequence

August 30 2011, 10:44am | Comments

Twitter Links Implications of 'uplifting'

Is it Ethical to Make Animals as Smart as People?

August 30 2011, 5:52am | Comments

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August 22 2011, 5:10pm | Comments

Link Inside the Internet Art Bubble

The internet finally seems to have made a dint in New York's institutional art world. Cory Arcangel, an artist who began his career manipulating old computer technologies and critiquing web…

August 17 2011, 6:26am | Comments

Link Our Emergent Digital Future

What will the digital world look like in ten years? The trends are already clear. Capacities in bandwidth and storage will continue on their exponential path. The explosion in the…

August 14 2011, 4:32am | Comments

Link Digital tendencies

From 1961 to 1973, a loosely organized group of artists and scientists coalesced around the radical idea that the emerging technology of the computer could be used to make a…

August 12 2011, 4:59am | Comments

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August 12 2011, 2:05am | Comments

Link Accuracy takes power: one man's 3GHz quest to…

Emulators for playing older games are immensely popular online, with regular arguments breaking out over which emulator is best for which game. Today we present another point of view from…

August 11 2011, 4:25am | Comments

Twitter Links Digital Decay (2001): by Bruce Sterling

"Entropy requires no maintenance. Entropy has its own poetry."

August 10 2011, 9:59am | Comments

Link Brute force or intelligence? The slow rise of…

When you visit the History of Computer Chess exhibit at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, the first machine you see is "The Turk." In 1770, a Hungarian…

August 8 2011, 8:39am | Comments

Link Traces of humanity

What aliens could learn from the stuff we’ve left in space Even in space, where none of us live, some of what we’ve left is space junk: stuff orbiting the…

August 7 2011, 3:32pm | Comments

Link How Google Dominates Us

Most of the time Google does not actually have the answers. When people say, “I looked it up on Google,” they are committing a solecism. When they try to erase…

July 31 2011, 6:17pm | Comments

Link Drone Ethnography

Suppose you wanted to build your own drone—well, hold on a minute—why do you want to build your own drone? What do you mean, “why?” The answer is, you'd go…

July 24 2011, 5:14pm | Comments

Tumblr The Objectuals

July 22 2011, 1:47am | Comments

Twitter Links Poor memory? Blame Google

Poor #memory? Blame #Google #ExtendedMind #science #technology #mind #Internet #fb

July 16 2011, 6:27am | Comments

Link How Digital Detectives Deciphered Stuxnet, the Most Menacing…

On June 17, 2010, Sergey Ulasen was in his office in Belarus sifting through e-mail when a report caught his eye. A computer belonging to a customer in Iran was…

July 13 2011, 3:09am | Comments

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