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  October 12 2012, 3:19pm | Comments

• Bookmark Next-Generation Digital Information Storage in DNA

  Digital information is accumulating at an astounding rate, straining our ability to store and archive it. DNA is among the most dense and stable information media known. The development of new…

  August 18 2012, 5:55am | Comments

• Portfolio Binary Nomination

  July 19 2012, 9:32am | Comments

• Bookmark Passing the baton of life - from Schrödinger to Venter

  Craig Venter spins increasingly ubiquitous metaphor: "The digital and biological worlds are becoming interchangeable" "All living cells that we know of on this planet are 'DNA software'-driven biological machines comprised of…

  July 19 2012, 8:09am | Comments

• Bookmark Evolution, Entropy, and Information

  There are really two points. The first is a bit of technical background you can ignore if you like, and skip to the next paragraph. It’s the idea of “relative entropy”…

  June 15 2012, 5:19am | Comments

• Bookmark Google Knowledge Graph

  Last Wednesday, with relatively little fanfare, Google introduced a new technology called Google Knowledge Graph. Type in “François Hollande,” and you are offered a capsule history (with links) to his children,…

  May 30 2012, 1:59am | Comments

• Bookmark In the Digital Era, Publication Isn’t Preservation

  Publication used to mean preservation but it no longer does. Let me explain. When a print book is published its metadata is literally attached to its content. The author and title,…

  May 21 2012, 10:46am | Comments

• Bookmark 'Will reading in the digital era erode our ability to understand the…

  Quite the opposite, so long as we grasp the fresh routes to knowledge, and connection, that technological change brings, says Nick Harkaway. These are old, old fears in a new form.…

  May 17 2012, 3:38am | Comments

• Bookmark Synthetic Genetic Polymers Capable of Heredity and Evolution

  Genetic information storage and processing rely on just two polymers, DNA and RNA, yet whether their role reflects evolutionary history or fundamental functional constraints is currently unknown. With the use of…

  April 20 2012, 12:31pm | Comments

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  Artificial Intelligence Could Be on Brink of Passing Turing Test

  April 14 2012, 8:37am | Comments

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  The New Aesthetic Needs to Get Weirder

  April 14 2012, 8:21am | Comments

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  Daphne Koller: when machines are almost human

  April 4 2012, 1:42am | Comments

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  Everything You Wanted to Know About Data Mining but Were Afraid to Ask

  April 3 2012, 2:33pm | Comments

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  Digging in the Gates: The Digital Socratic Shift

  April 3 2012, 12:26pm | Comments

• Bookmark Death of a data haven: cypherpunks, WikiLeaks, and the world's smallest nation

  A data haven is "the information equivalent to a tax haven," a country that helps you evade other countries' rules on what you can and can't do with your bits. (Think…

  March 28 2012, 3:42am | Comments

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  Why Google Isn’t Making Us Stupid…or Smart

  March 11 2012, 4:12am | Comments

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  March 9 2012, 1:18am | Comments

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  The Exegesis of Philip K Dick with Erik Davis

  March 3 2012, 12:05pm | Comments

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  In the very near future the act of remembering will become a choice.

  February 18 2012, 6:21am | Comments

• Metafilter Digital Images are SomeThing to aspire to? (A reflection on Hito Steyerl's proposal) Artist and film-maker, Hito Steyerl, asks us to stand shoulder to shoulder with our digital equivalents. Digital images are Things (like you and me) - a plethora of compressed, corrupted representations pushed and pulled through increasingly policed and capitalised information networks. If 80%…

  February 16 2012, 5:13am | Comments

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  Rereading Darwin

  January 17 2012, 5:06pm | Comments

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  January 15 2012, 3:49pm | Comments

• Bookmark Kopimism: the world's newest religion explained

  Isak Gerson is spiritual leader of the world's newest religion, Kopimism, devoted to file-sharing. On 5 January the Church of Kopimism was formally recognised as a religion by the Swedish government.…

  January 15 2012, 1:32pm | Comments

• Bookmark Human Brain Is Limiting Global Data Growth

  Evidence has emerged that the brain's capacity to absorb information is limiting the amount of data humanity can produce

  December 9 2011, 8:35am | Comments

• Portfolio Noise; Mutation; Autonomy: A Mark on Crusoe’s Island

  December 7 2011, 8:50am | Comments

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  Equivocation in information theory can be "autonomy-producing" - Sometimes, the way words mutate, infect & corrupt one another blows my mind

  November 23 2011, 10:06am | Comments

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  Evolution and Innovation

  October 29 2011, 3:55pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Great Tech War Of 2012

  And as every sci-fi nerd knows, you totally need a tricked-out battleship if you're about to engage in serious battle. To state this as clearly as possible: The four American companies…

  October 17 2011, 12:25pm | Comments

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  The Elusive Big Idea - NYTimes.com

  September 6 2011, 4:43am | Comments

• Bookmark The Manichean World of Tim Wu

  For the past dozen years, several distinguished thinkers about law and technology have warned that a golden age of Internet freedom may be about to close. The most influential alarm-ringer has…

  August 18 2011, 1:34am | Comments

• Bookmark Our Emergent Digital Future

  What will the digital world look like in ten years?  The trends are already clear. Capacities in bandwidth and storage will continue on their exponential path.  The explosion in the volume…

  August 14 2011, 4:32am | Comments

• Bookmark Information Wants to be Consumed

   Although information spreads, virus-like, through replication, this replication, as Walter Benjamin foresaw, involves a dispersion that allows images or data to be seen in different places, in different contexts (what Benjamin…

  August 3 2011, 6:00am | Comments

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  October 12 2012, 3:19pm | Comments

• Bookmark Next-Generation Digital Information Storage in DNA

  Digital information is accumulating at an astounding rate, straining our ability to store and archive it. DNA is among the most dense and stable information media known. The development of new…

  August 18 2012, 5:55am | Comments

• Portfolio Binary Nomination

  July 19 2012, 9:32am | Comments

• Bookmark Passing the baton of life - from Schrödinger to Venter

  Craig Venter spins increasingly ubiquitous metaphor: "The digital and biological worlds are becoming interchangeable" "All living cells that we know of on this planet are 'DNA software'-driven biological machines comprised of…

  July 19 2012, 8:09am | Comments

• Bookmark Evolution, Entropy, and Information

  There are really two points. The first is a bit of technical background you can ignore if you like, and skip to the next paragraph. It’s the idea of “relative entropy”…

  June 15 2012, 5:19am | Comments

• Bookmark Google Knowledge Graph

  Last Wednesday, with relatively little fanfare, Google introduced a new technology called Google Knowledge Graph. Type in “François Hollande,” and you are offered a capsule history (with links) to his children,…

  May 30 2012, 1:59am | Comments

• Bookmark In the Digital Era, Publication Isn’t Preservation

  Publication used to mean preservation but it no longer does. Let me explain. When a print book is published its metadata is literally attached to its content. The author and title,…

  May 21 2012, 10:46am | Comments

• Bookmark 'Will reading in the digital era erode our ability to understand the…

  Quite the opposite, so long as we grasp the fresh routes to knowledge, and connection, that technological change brings, says Nick Harkaway. These are old, old fears in a new form.…

  May 17 2012, 3:38am | Comments

• Bookmark Synthetic Genetic Polymers Capable of Heredity and Evolution

  Genetic information storage and processing rely on just two polymers, DNA and RNA, yet whether their role reflects evolutionary history or fundamental functional constraints is currently unknown. With the use of…

  April 20 2012, 12:31pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Artificial Intelligence Could Be on Brink of Passing Turing Test

  April 14 2012, 8:37am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The New Aesthetic Needs to Get Weirder

  April 14 2012, 8:21am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Daphne Koller: when machines are almost human

  April 4 2012, 1:42am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Everything You Wanted to Know About Data Mining but Were Afraid to Ask

  April 3 2012, 2:33pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Digging in the Gates: The Digital Socratic Shift

  April 3 2012, 12:26pm | Comments

• Bookmark Death of a data haven: cypherpunks, WikiLeaks, and the world's smallest nation

  A data haven is "the information equivalent to a tax haven," a country that helps you evade other countries' rules on what you can and can't do with your bits. (Think…

  March 28 2012, 3:42am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Why Google Isn’t Making Us Stupid…or Smart

  March 11 2012, 4:12am | Comments

• YouTube

  March 9 2012, 1:18am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Exegesis of Philip K Dick with Erik Davis

  March 3 2012, 12:05pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  In the very near future the act of remembering will become a choice.

  February 18 2012, 6:21am | Comments

• Metafilter Digital Images are SomeThing to aspire to? (A reflection on Hito Steyerl's proposal) Artist and film-maker, Hito Steyerl, asks us to stand shoulder to shoulder with our digital equivalents. Digital images are Things (like you and me) - a plethora of compressed, corrupted representations pushed and pulled through increasingly policed and capitalised information networks. If 80%…

  February 16 2012, 5:13am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Rereading Darwin

  January 17 2012, 5:06pm | Comments

• YouTube

  January 15 2012, 3:49pm | Comments

• Bookmark Kopimism: the world's newest religion explained

  Isak Gerson is spiritual leader of the world's newest religion, Kopimism, devoted to file-sharing. On 5 January the Church of Kopimism was formally recognised as a religion by the Swedish government.…

  January 15 2012, 1:32pm | Comments

• Bookmark Human Brain Is Limiting Global Data Growth

  Evidence has emerged that the brain's capacity to absorb information is limiting the amount of data humanity can produce

  December 9 2011, 8:35am | Comments

• Portfolio Noise; Mutation; Autonomy: A Mark on Crusoe’s Island

  December 7 2011, 8:50am | Comments

• Twitter

  Equivocation in information theory can be "autonomy-producing" - Sometimes, the way words mutate, infect & corrupt one another blows my mind

  November 23 2011, 10:06am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Evolution and Innovation

  October 29 2011, 3:55pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Great Tech War Of 2012

  And as every sci-fi nerd knows, you totally need a tricked-out battleship if you're about to engage in serious battle. To state this as clearly as possible: The four American companies…

  October 17 2011, 12:25pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Elusive Big Idea - NYTimes.com

  September 6 2011, 4:43am | Comments

• Bookmark The Manichean World of Tim Wu

  For the past dozen years, several distinguished thinkers about law and technology have warned that a golden age of Internet freedom may be about to close. The most influential alarm-ringer has…

  August 18 2011, 1:34am | Comments

• Bookmark Our Emergent Digital Future

  What will the digital world look like in ten years?  The trends are already clear. Capacities in bandwidth and storage will continue on their exponential path.  The explosion in the volume…

  August 14 2011, 4:32am | Comments

• Bookmark Information Wants to be Consumed

   Although information spreads, virus-like, through replication, this replication, as Walter Benjamin foresaw, involves a dispersion that allows images or data to be seen in different places, in different contexts (what Benjamin…

  August 3 2011, 6:00am | Comments

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