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(via Codex Silenda: The Book of Puzzles by Brady Whitney — Kickstarter) This project tickles all of my pleasure spots. A book, that is a puzzle, that can be had as either a ready-to-assemble kit or as ready-to-laser-etch files (all the finished ones are spoken-for), that is under a Creative Commons license as well as…
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(via Joaquín Torres-Garcia: The Arcadian Modern | PRESS REMARKS – YouTube) timings are approximate:00:08:00 time is not linear00:09:45 small, precarious, constructivist (constructed?) structures in wood… intentionally precarious…00:11:05 small wood constructures are a laboratory for formal invention and structural composition00:11:52 he comes to New York and there is this Ludic Laboratory of toys, and the importance…
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Raffi Khatchadourian, The Doomsday Invention – The New Yorker
Raffi Khatchadourian, The Doomsday Invention – The New Yorker stoweboyd: via Stowe Boyd “Superintelligence” is not intended as a treatise of deep originality; Bostrom’s contribution is to impose the rigors of analytic philosophy on a messy corpus of ideas that emerged at the margins of academic thought. Perhaps because the field of A.I. has recently…
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emergentfutures: Thinking machines: the skilled jobs that could be taken over by robots on Thursday the Bank of England’s chief economist warned that this wave of automation is threatening skilled roles. The jobs of the middle classes, with their expensive university educations, are now at risk. As a result, a huge number of jobs that…
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prostheticknowledge: Protopiper Fabrication prototyping tech from the HPI Human Computer Interaction Lab is a computerized tapegun that can produce 3D forms to help visualize objects in spaces: Protopiper is a computer aided, hand-held fabrication device that allows users to sketch room-sized objects at actual scale. The key idea behind protopiper is that it forms adhesive…
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As someone who trained and currently still operates as a ‘craftsperson’, debates around manufacturing processes and technological de-skilling became very boring, very quickly. I studied at a well-known Art and Design institution, where the first students to have access to rapid prototyping facilities were within the School of Applied Arts and not on a course…