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If we take hacking in the cultural sense to be something that emerges out of MIT and similar environments in the middle of the twentieth century, then there’s a certain poetic logic to reconnecting it to everyday, hobbyist kinds of tinkering, which after all was one of its origin stories — the MIT model railways…
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futurescope: Russian Startup Offers Wireless Remote Controller For Cars This is much better than any shiny corporate design fiction video (e.g. Samsungs new vision of the future “display centric world”). DeviceGuru writes on slashdot: “A Russian startup called Virt2real has produced a small $120 Linux-based WiFi controller board for remote control and video observation applications, and has demonstrated its…
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2013 turned out to be the year when the Digital Revolution trended Stalinist. Old-school Digital Bolsheviks scattered hapless in every direction, as Big Data Killer Bot Commissars scoured the darkening landscape, and Trotsky went to ground in Ecuador. Bruce Sterling at The Well. Topic 473: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky: State of the World 2014 (via…
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Aldo and Leonardo Wilderness Science & Art Collaboration
Aldo and Leonardo Wilderness Science & Art Collaboration jennyfilipetti: Colorado Art Ranch and the Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute are hosting one-month residencies in six different wilderness biomes throughout the United States. Artists will be collecting data with researchers and creating their own work in response. DATES: Vary by location, see site for details. COST: There is a…