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When you think of that city, a gateway to the beautiful Rocky Mountains, what mood or spirit comes to mind? We’re stumped, too, but Chadwick John Friedman isn’t. Friedman, who refers to himself on his website simply as “Chadwick John,” a specialist in emergent digital practices with the University of Denver, has created a device…
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prostheticknowledge: The 3D Additivist Manifesto Project from Moreshin Allahyari and Daniel Rourke takes a Modernist direction to call for new art to be made with contemporary tools: The 3D Additivist Manifesto blurs the boundaries between art, engineering, science fiction, and digital aesthetics. We call for you – artists, activists, designers, and critical engineers – to…
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2015 Will Be The ‘Summer of Minecraft’
nprplays: If there is one video game that parents the world over support more than any other, it has to be the building game Minecraft. Since its launch it has become a behemoth in the industry, last year selling to Microsoft for $2.5 billion. But the worth of Minecraft can’t just be calculated in dollars,…
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Mapping the Sneakernet
thenewinquiry: By AN XIAO MINA Digital media travels hand to hand, phone to phone across vast cartographies invisible to Big Data I stood at the corner of Market Street and 4th Avenue, at the edge of San Francisco’s technology-startup neighborhood. An older Chinese woman—let’s call her Fei—approached my friend and me, asking for directions in…
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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 —…