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We felt that the issues that women are dealing with are so distinct, right? It’s often related to the woman’s appearance, it’s very much related to the woman’s being as a sexual person — determining whether or not they are interested in having sex with that woman, and that’s her only value. I really wanted…
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Here’s how it went down: Schmidt, Isaacson and Smith were onstage together for a panel called “How Innovation Happens.” One of the recurring themes of their hourlong talk was diversity in tech, and how the U.S. government and companies like Google can get more women and minorities involved. Both men interrupted Smith several times —…
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syfycity: Easy Ice is in my stub.
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“It’s a $1 billion gadget…”
“It’s a $1 billion gadget…” parislemon: Cliff Kuang: A few years ago, the CEO of Vertu was showing me the company’s newest $8,000 phone, bragging that the gadget was far more substantial and well-made that any $500 iPhone could hope to be. I stopped him short, pointing out that the iPhone isn’t a $500 gadget.…
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valentinedelandro: Bitch Planet sketchbook: Working out ideas for the Non-Compliant symbol.
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¡Peligro! Rio Bravo, sketch circa 1998, El Paso, Texas USA. rafaelfajardo. Sketch for a proposed work to be deployed along the US-Mexico border in response to the continued engineering of the northern bank of the <i>Rio Bravo Del Norte</i> in order to create turbulent currents and undertows. In the US the river is known as…
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Design fiction’s efforts to create imaginative realisations of technology, which consciously try to evoke discussion that avoids polarising opinion, have a key ingredient, I think. Unlike the new worlds of sci-fi novels, or the ultra-detailed visuals of futuristic cinema, their stories are unfinished. Minority Report is not about critical design because its narrative is closed.…
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The ties between scientific speculation, technological imagination and sci-fi are close, and complex, even if genuinely new ideas most often come up in the tech arena first. Arthur C Clarke is often cited as a techno-visionary for his ideas about geostationary communication satellites, but these were first outlined in 1945 in a technical essay, not…