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speculative alt.history via: albotas: Famicom Software For The Modern Age Morgan Conley’s Famicom Software Project explores what it would be like if the Nintendo Famicom was an actual personal computer system that required different cartridges for visiting websites and using programs. Check out the video below to see what PhotoShop would look like as an 8-bit…
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Hackers solve problems and build things, and they believe in freedom and voluntary mutual help. To be accepted as a hacker, you have to behave as though you have this kind of attitude yourself. And to behave as though you have the attitude, you have to really believe the attitude. But if you think of…
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Where do we draw the line between tinkerers and hackers? “The Tinkerers”: How corporations kill creativity – Salon.com Hacker = Tinkerer. Above is a quote from a well intended essay. The sentence betrays a lack of understanding of the history of hacking and can subvert the premise of the essay. It reinforces a culture of…
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The Office For Creative Research | Memoranda – The Office For Creative Research
The Office For Creative Research | Memoranda – The Office For Creative Research “Data and data processing tools (read software), provide a flat terrain across which disciplinary boundaries disappear. New forms of creativity are emergingfrom the cross-breeding made possible by new technologies and problems that inspired their creation. As of today, the Office for Creative…
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The Office For Creative Research | Memoranda – The Office For Creative Research
The Office For Creative Research | Memoranda – The Office For Creative Research “Data and data processing tools (read software), provide a flat terrain across which disciplinary boundaries disappear. New forms of creativity are emergingfrom the cross-breeding made possible by new technologies and problems that inspired their creation. As of today, the Office for Creative…
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The early case for telecommuting—made most prominently by Alvin Toffler in his best-selling The Third Wave in 1980—had a strong romantic flavor to it. For futurists like Toffler, the home office would be an “electronic cottage” that might “glue the family together again,” provide “greater community stability,” and even trigger a “renaissance among voluntary organizations.”…
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The early case for telecommuting—made most prominently by Alvin Toffler in his best-selling The Third Wave in 1980—had a strong romantic flavor to it. For futurists like Toffler, the home office would be an “electronic cottage” that might “glue the family together again,” provide “greater community stability,” and even trigger a “renaissance among voluntary organizations.”…
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studio630: How to Improve Architectural Education (In 12 Steps) 1. Obsess with keeping current. Provide a campus program for faculties and staff that updates the latest statistics and metrics about the design profession. For instance, compensation metrics and the business metrics of success. Bring students, faculty, and administration together to share knowledge on the current realities…
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Episode 69- The Brief and Tumultuous Life of the New UC Logo
99percentinvisible: **Subscribe to the 99% Invisible podcast in iTunes or the podcatcher of your choice.** If you’re not from California, or missed this bit of news, the University of California has a new logo. Or rather had a new logo. To be more precise they had a new “visual identity system,” which is the kind of entirely accurate but…
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nevver: and go.