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This terrifying video was filmed with the world’s first self-powered camera
This terrifying video was filmed with the world’s first self-powered camera 3dadditivism: This video isn’t just a little bit terrifying, it’s the product of a prototype camera that can continually power itself — without using a battery. When a camera sensor is exposed to light, the pixels use photodiodes to generate an electric current.
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Internet.org: delivering poor Internet to poor people
mostlysignssomeportents: Mark Zuckerberg’s Internet.org project bribes corrupt, non-neutral carriers in poor countries to exempt Facebook and other services of its choosing from their data-caps, giving the world’s poorest an Internet that’s been radically pruned to a sliver of what the rest of the world gets for free. Internet.org characterizes its goals as charitable and development-oriented.…
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mutualassureddistraction: The Betrayal by Technology: A Portrait of Jacques Ellul
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Artists are a type of worker. What makes our society different from those that came before is that now, because we are no longer hunter-gatherers or peasant farmers, if we want to eat and pay rent we have to go out and get jobs. What is the job of the artist? You might think that…
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“Usually in Peru, our schools are like a jail,” says Innova founder Yzusqui Chessman. “But [Innova] schools . . . have big transparency, many colors, and bandwidth throughout.” Transparency and Wi-Fi for the middle class, while everyone else attends jail-like schools? Edutopia | Jacobin
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It’s not surprising, then, that when Carlos Rodríguez-Pastor Persivale, the billionaire son of an elite Peruvian banking family, decided to expand his empire of restaurants and movie theaters by buying up a chain of for-profit English-language elementary schools, his first step was to contact IDEO and commission them to design everything: the buildings, the budget,…
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Accounting classes don’t teach you to make art.
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L.A. school district ditches iPad curriculum, seeks refund from Apple
mostlysignssomeportents: Nearly a year ago, L.A. Unified sent Apple a letter demanding that it address problems with the Pearson curriculum. “Only two schools of 69 in the Instructional Technology Initiative … use Pearson regularly,” according to an internal March report from project director Bernadette Lucas. “Any given class typically experiences one problem or more daily.…
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Broadening the geopolitics still further is Gangjian Cui’s installation Rise of the Plasticsmith. He anticipates a time 50 years hence when the scarcity of oil will mean that cities such as his native Daqing, a community in north-east China built entirely on the industrial production of plastic, will be facing terminal decline. The artist posits…
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I don’t believe that making games, critiquing games or playing games should be a privilege reserved for people who can afford it. Maddy Myers, Paste Magazine (via discovergames)