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Does the Uncanny Valley exist? [2010]
mostlysignssomeportents: According to all of the roboticists and computer scientists we interviewed, the uncanny is in short supply during face-to-face contact with robots. Two of the robots that inspire the most terror—and accompanying YouTube comments—are Osaka University’s CB2, a child-like, gray-skinned robot, and KOBIAN, Waseda University’s hyper-expressive humanoid. In person, no one rejected the robots.…
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When I speak of poetry I am not thinking of it as a genre. Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality. So poetry becomes a philosophy to guide a man throughout his life…. [With poetry, one] is capable of going beyond the limitations of coherent logic, and conveying…
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redhousecanada: archiemcphee: This mesmerizing video, produced by tetotetote, introduces us to Yasuo Okazaki, an artisan working in Sendai, Japan who transforms spinning blocks of wood into exquisitely beautiful Kokeshi dolls, a 400-year-old Japanese artistic tradition. Traditional Kokeshi dolls are entirely handmade and have an enlarged head that sits atop a simple, cylindrical trunk with no…
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The Smithsonian’s Cooper Hewitt: Finally, the Museum of the Future Is Here – The Atlantic
The Smithsonian’s Cooper Hewitt: Finally, the Museum of the Future Is Here – The Atlantic …the Cooper Hewitt, the Smithsonian’s recently reopened design museum, will receive a giant pen…. at the museum, it does something magical. Next to every object on-display at the Cooper Hewitt is a small pattern that looks like the origin point…
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All social change is speculative fiction because we’ve never seen a world without poverty, never seen a world with total equality, never seen a world without prisons…therefore activism IS speculative fiction, it’s visionary fiction because we are writing a world we’ve never seen but a world we’d like to live in. It’s hard and unapologetic…