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In fact, Kay illustrates his point about the black box nature of SimCity by describing how crime operates in the game. SimCity, Kay argues, “gets the players to discover that the way to counter rising crime is to put in more police stations” [Kay 2007]. Of all the possible options in the real world —…
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As more of our objects and environments become actuated, connected, and data-enabled, these enchanted objects are developing the capacity to contain their own stories. An object can remember its history, can understand how it is used, can talk to other objects around it to understand its environment. As these capabilities evolve, objects no longer become…
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jockohomoremix: The Hidden Art in America’s Mall Sprawl – “This is more than a laugh at 1980s clothing, it’s a document of an almost undocumented world,” said Mr. Galinsky, 44 years old, the co-director (with wife Suki Hawley ) of such documentaries as “Battle for Brooklyn” and “Horns and Halos.” “This was the summer between…
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This means that for some things, Google researchers can no longer explain exactly how the system has learned to spot certain objects, because the programming appears to think independently from its creators, and its complex cognitive processes are inscrutable. This “thinking” is within an extremely narrow remit, but it is demonstrably effective and independently verifiable.…
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That logic follows a widely shared cultural belief: We all tend to assume that young people are on the technological vanguard, that they somehow have got an inside scoop on what’s next. If today’s kids are Snapchatting instead of Facebooking, the thinking goes, tomorrow we’ll all be Snapchatting, too, because tech habits, like hairstyles, flow…