Month: February 2013

  • thegetty: Is art history dead? Is the digital revolution passing art historians by? What is the future of publishing in art history? We’ll be exploring these topics next week on The Getty Iris, and we’re kicking off with a short Google+ Hangout, “Resuscitating Art History,” on Monday, March 4, at 4:00 p.m. PST. We’d like to…

  • Complexity theorists tend to ascribe to Popper’s (1957) notion that the future is fundamentally unpredictable or at least unknowable for non-trivial systems of interest—in our case human systems—and broadly speaking, the longer the time scale for prediction, the less predictable the outcome. This makes cities— which are about as long term as physical products can…

  • Restoring the World’s oldest Digital Computer

    Restoring the World’s oldest Digital Computer The restored Witch Computer fully working at Bletchley Park

  • Time to Model All Life on Earth

    Time to Model All Life on Earth Drew W Purves, Jorn P W Scharlemann, Mike Harfoot, Tim Newbold, Derek Tittensor, Jon Hutton, and Stephen Emmott 17 January 2013 To help transform our understanding of the biosphere, ecologists — like climate scientists — should simulate whole ecosystems, argue Drew Purves and colleagues. In: Nature Publisher: Nature…

  • Micro Stories and Mega Stories – Microsoft Research

    Micro Stories and Mega Stories – Microsoft Research Micro Stories and Mega Stories Ramesh Jain and Malcolm Slaney January 2013 Technology, especially multimedia technology, is changing the way we tell stories. We are all familiar with letters, articles, and books, but new Internet technology has led to two novel forms of storytelling that we call…

  • emergentfutures: “The business community focuses on managing uncertainty. That’s actually a bit of a canard. In an increasingly turbulent and interconnected world, ambiguity is rising to unprecedented levels. That’s something our current systems can’t handle. There’s a difference between the kind of problems that companies, institutions, and governments are able to solve and the ones…

  • nevver: Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, Illustrated Scroll 2

  • image via @darthjulian, julian: Mobile Computing Posture on Flickr.

  • Making it in Indie Games: Starter Guide

    makegames: Every now and then someone will ask me for advice on making it as a professional indie game developer. First, it’s a huge honor to be asked that. So I want to say “Thank you!” Second… damn, if I really want to help out it’s a serious endeavor. Of course, I could always say…