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How do you define “techno-craft?” It’s all these new ways in which people are bringing the notion of craft into design, the notion of self-made, self-crafted, self-developed products and software. The big phenomenon that the show is trying to explain and walk visitors through is this notion that while a lot of people said craft…
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Angry Birds is a so-called physics game, which suggests education, and also a puzzle in reverse, as you must destroy something by figuring out how its pieces come apart. Your tools are these birds — the victims of the theft, but also your cannon fodder. Each bird that is launched dies. Though there’s no blood,…
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A novel idea in digital entertainment: Sifteo cubes are small, playful computers with full-color displays that wirelessly connect to your computer. The cubes are aware of one another’s presence and react differently based on proximity, arrangement and motion. They’re designed as a platform, so they can run a number of software games from Sifteo and…
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*I used to have a lot of hope in crowdsourced collective intelligence, but I’ve come to realize that these networked wisdom-of-crowds entities are not very bright… they’re about as “smart” as, say, the helpful and publicly-minded Rotary Club. The WELL: State of the World 2011: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky
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“In essence, we brainstormed the question, ‘What would we do if the goal was to aggressively cannibalize ourselves?’ ” What that meant more than anything else was forcing one of the nation’s oldest magazines to stop thinking of itself as a printed product. Separations between the digital and print staffs in both business and editorial…
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But mostly my skepticism stemmed from the suspicion that the World Wide Web wasn’t, in essence, much more than a gigantic, unthinking Xerox machine (albeit with inhuman “memory”), and thus posed the same old threat to copyright and to the livelihoods of writers and publishers alike. I Won’t Hug This File — I Won’t Even…
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Maggie Koerth-Baker at 4:37 PM Tuesday, Jan 18, 2011 The Atlantic turned its first profit in at least a decade, largely thanks to embracing the Internet. The owner of longtime rival magazine Harpers—who hates the Internet with burning fire of 10,000 suns and is, thus, not at all likely to be biased in his assessment…