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it successfully ties science fiction icons to the questions that haunted us 200 years ago and now alike, about what it means to be human, about whether there are places that science shouldn’t venture. But it does fall into one easy trap: portraying these fiction writers as “prophets” in the first place. Ridley Scott’s Prophets…
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nevver: Building Blocks Smartphone
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http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1 newyorker: newyorker: The most remarkable use of screens I’ve seen recently was at a Portishead show in October. The band finished their world tour two weekends ago, in Australia, and the band’s visual director, John Minton, agreed to answer questions and provide the one-minute collage you see below. What you see [above] isn’t footage…
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damiensaatdjian: Martin CreedWork No. 227, 2000The lights going on and off5 seconds on / 5 seconds offThe Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2007 algorithmic art?
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But the thought leaders on talk radio and Fox do more than shape opinion. Backed by their own wing of the book-publishing industry and supported by think tanks that increasingly function as public-relations agencies, conservatives have built a whole alternative knowledge system, with its own facts, its own history, its own laws of economics. Outside…
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8bitfuture: Kinect 2 accurate enough to lip read. Sources close to website Eurogamer have revealed the next generation Kinect device will be so accurate it can read your lips, along with improved cameras, motion sensing, and voice recognition. It will also track the pitch and volume of player voices and facial characteristics to measure different…
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electrikmuse: Illustration of Vogel’s formula of the pattern of sunflower florets.For n=1 to 500, using the polar coordinates equations: r = c√n and θ = n(137.5°) Where 137.5° is 55/144 of a circular angle, and 55 & 144 are both Fibonacci numbers – the exact angle should technically be 360/((sqrt(5)+1)/2)+1), or 137.507764…). Can be produced…
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The basic rule of economics after the Industrial Revolution is: if a task can be automated, it will be. Or to put it differently, if a worker can be replaced by a machine, he will be. Call it the principle of expendability. The only thing that has changed since the first power loom is the…
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Why Boing Boing’s Xeni Jardin shared her breast-cancer diagnosis
Why Boing Boing’s Xeni Jardin shared her breast-cancer diagnosis