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Video games are more prone than other media to obsolescence. With each new generation of hardware and software, scores of titles are made unplayable. Music has suffered similarly, of course: vinyl morphed into cassette into CD into digital audio. But music, like films and books, is easily transferred to new formats. Video games, which rely…
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fyprocessing: Every river in the United States Ben Fry and Fathom Design.
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Bruce Sterling’s wonderful novella Kiosk in podcast form [2010]
Bruce Sterling’s wonderful novella Kiosk in podcast form [2010] mostlysignssomeportents: Tony sez, “StarShipSofa’s latest podcast installment is ‘Kiosk’, the novella written by the SF great, Bruce Sterling. Narrated by the brilliant Peter Cavell, ‘Kiosk’ is a tale easily relatable to the 21st century. Sterling’s novella focuses on a Borislav who runs a little kiosk in…
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Forget Wearable Tech. People Really Want Better Batteries.
Forget Wearable Tech. People Really Want Better Batteries. The reporting on this is sloppy, drawing conclusions from an ad hoc marketing survey with few data points. Nevertheless, it will be repeated as a sure indicator of where we should be exploring. Focus grouping the future gives us more of what we already know we want…
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3dprintart: Oliver van Herp spent two years working on a 3D printer and 3D printing process that could make large and medium scale functional 3D printed ceramics.
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ejhill: Photo: Piero Viti, Venice, Italy, December 2014 My Wishes for 2015Guillermo Gómez-Peña I wish to live life as if I had no fear, as if there was no war, no danger; as if governments and crime cartels didn’t exist. I wish to live life by the strange rules of poetry, performance art & quantum physics. I…