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mostlysignssomeportents: Bruce Sterling’s closing remarks from SXSW Interactive: who isn’t in the room? As ever, Bruce Sterling’s closing remarks to the SXSW Interactive festival were a barn-burner; in them, Sterling rattles off a list of people who should be in the room, either because they know something that is lost on mainstream geekdom, or because they…
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uncrate: Hemisferio Criativo Nimbus E-Car
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The moral of this story should be obvious by now: as with the car on a slush-covered highway, any fool can get it to spin out, but that same fool is then unlikely to have the presence of mind, the skill and the steel nerves to keep it from hitting one of the barriers. Same…
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arkitektonas: Amphitheater of Parque Villa Lobos, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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savedbythe-bellhooks: Source: Teaching To Transgress: Education As A Practice Of Freedom by bell hooks
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IT feudalism: the surveillance state and wealth gaps [please share!]
mostlysignssomeportents: My latest Guardian column examines the relationship between technology, surveillance and wealth disparity — specifically the way that cheap mass surveillance makes it possible to sustain more unequal societies because it makes it cheaper to find and catch the dissidents who foment rebellion over the creation of hereditary elites. Social stability comes at the…
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Why It’s Almost Impossible To Teach a Robot To Do Your Laundry
Why It’s Almost Impossible To Teach a Robot To Do Your Laundry Why It’s Almost Impossible To Teach A Robot To Do Your Laundry
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futurescope: UC Berkeley unveils first-of-its-kind 3-D-printed cement structure A UC Berkeley research team led by Ronald Rael, associate professor of architecture, developed the first and largest powder-based 3-D-printed cement structure built to date. According to Rael, they “are mixing polymers with cement and fibers to produce very strong, lightweight, high-resolution parts on readily available equipment;…
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…we have this idea that the market is a thing that just happens. This is the debate in the 19th century: market relations creeped up within feudalism and then it overthrew [feudalism]. So gradually the market is just the natural expression of human freedom; and since it regulates itself, it will gradually displace everything else…
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