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Two decades of the web: a utopia no longer

July 11 2011, 11:47am | Comments
Bookmark Why the Basis of the Universe Isn’t Matter or Energy—It’s Data
Information flows everywhere, through wires and genes, through brain cells and quarks. But while it may appear ubiquitous to us now, until recently we had no awareness of what information was…

March 6 2011, 3:43am | Comments
Bookmark Manguel, Muse of Impossibility
One day in December 1919, the twenty-year-old Jorge Luis Borges, during a short stay in Seville, wrote a letter, in French, to his friend Maurice Abramowicz in Geneva, in which, almost…

October 21 2010, 3:52am | Comments
Bookmark Ken Goldberg Discusses Telerobots, Androids, and Heidegger
This year saw the invasion of telepresence robots—electromechanical avatars that allow you to be there without actually being there. Today, half a dozen companies are selling, or will start selling, these…

October 8 2010, 2:58am | Comments
Bookmark The Writer Who Couldn't Read
"In January of 2002," writes the neuroscientist Oliver Sacks, "I received a letter from Howard Engel, a Canadian novelist describing a strange problem." Engel's problem was so strange, I decided to…

June 27 2010, 8:03am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily Inside Code: A Conversation with Dr. Lane DeNicola and Seph Rodney

June 13 2010, 9:25pm | Comments
Tumblr Testing the flotation dynamics and swimming abilities of giraffes by way of computational analysis

June 12 2010, 9:50am | Comments
Bookmark Uniformity and Variability: An Essay in the Philosophy of Matter
If the planet needs us to speed up information, and slow down matter, what does this mean for the complex relationship between information and nature? There is a growing awareness of…

May 3 2010, 9:35am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily Raising Neanderthals: Metaphysics at the Limits of Science

March 21 2010, 10:30pm | Comments
Bookmark Avatar and the Flight from Reality
In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “The Artist of the Beautiful” (1844), a prototypical nerd with few social graces and no head for business turns a watchmaker’s shop into an artist’s studio…

March 21 2010, 12:55pm | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily The Work of the Moving Image in the Age of its Digital Corruptibility

December 27 2009, 9:06pm | Comments
Bookmark Seriousness is the New Black: The Turner Prize at Tate Britain and…
Many factors have lead to London’s pre-eminence in the contemporary art world: the importance of Goldsmith’s College to the Hirst generation of YBAs, Saatchi’s ubiquitous influence as a collector, Jay Joplin’s…

October 19 2009, 3:50am | Comments
Bookmark Adam Curtis: It Felt Like a Kiss
It Felt Like a Kiss started life as an experimental film I made for the BBC last year. My aim was to try and find a more involving and emotional way…

June 20 2009, 5:39am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily The Next Great Discontinuity: The Data Deluge

May 5 2009, 7:35am | Comments
Spacecollective.org hypertext/?="The Metaphor is the Message"

April 18 2008, 4:22am | Comments

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