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If a reader would like to read one of your books, but is unfamiliar with your oeuvre, which of your 50 books would you recommend they begin with, and why? Let us ask what kind of a reader we are talking about. If it is a young man, they should start with Oryx and Crake.…
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stavingdarkness: “when she was 7, a boy pushed her on the playground she fell headfirst into the dirt and came up with a mouthful of gravel and lines of blood chasing each other down her legs when she told her teacher what happened, she laughed and said ‘boys will be boys honey don’t let it…
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When we realize that coding is a creative act, we not only value that part of the coder’s labor, but we also realize that the technologies in which we swim have assumptions and ideologies behind them that, perhaps, we should challenge. Michael Widner in “First Stanford code poetry slam reveals the literary side of computer code”,…
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towerofsleep: Learning to Live With MoMA | Blog | Frieze Publishing Rather than wishing beyond hope that MoMA will change, then, now is time to learn how to live with MoMA – the way we live with a broken healthcare system, say, or climate change. We can all imagine better ways to manage healthcare or…
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lifeandcode: nst-online: California regulator seeks to shut down ‘learn to code’ bootcamps So is this like food vendors setting up shop out on the street and just getting to selling? Many industries lobby for regulations that limit the number of people who can do a certain kind of work as a way of keeping prices…
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rotwelt: Etchings for Jorge Luis Borges Library of Babel Erik Desmazières
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But as futurist Sarah DaVanzo tells me, Her is anything but sci-fi. It’s our future and it’s coming sooner than we think. How Infinite Information Will Warp And Change Human Relationships (via futuristgerd)
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azspot: Meet The People Who Want To Print A Home In A Day
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emergentfutures: Your Next Job Application Could Involve a Video Game Brynjolfsson is advising one start-up that hopes to revolutionize what might be called the human-capital-allocation market. The company, Knack, uses video games as a screening device to determine how creative, cautious, adept at multitasking or easily distracted, among other attributes, potential job applicants are. Its…
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my wife shared this with me, said it accurately depicts my state of being lately, I’m the tenured one.