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Bookmark Don Tapscott on the ways the Net Generation learn differently
The author of Grown Up Digital, Don Tapscott, refutes the belief that the internet is turning today's youth into "the dumbest generation". Tapscott illustrates how the net has changed the way…

September 29 2009, 11:27pm | Comments
Wikipedia Wikipedia enters a new chapter Yet again, Wikipedia is about to break new ground. The website that has become one of the biggest open repositories of knowledge is due – within the next week or so – to hit the mark of 3m articles in English. It's all…

September 28 2009, 9:10am | Comments
Bookmark Is the Internet melting our brains?
By now the arguments are familiar: Facebook is ruining our social relationships; Google is making us dumber; texting is destroying the English language as we know it. We're facing a crisis,…

September 28 2009, 9:01am | Comments
Bookmark Fictional Stimulus
Fictional Stimulus is a reading experience for people who like books and are curious about the future of literature in the digital world. It's an introductory taster for those new to…

September 28 2009, 8:54am | Comments
Ask Metafilter Offsetting sea level rise: An engineering idea of Biblical proportions | Ask Metafilter The seas are rising. Climate change has made it inevitable. I have a strange question... Assuming that world sea-level rises by 1 metre over the next hundred years - Would it be possible to cordon off a section of land, somewhere in the…

September 18 2009, 8:12am | Comments
Bookmark Google's Book Search: A Disaster for Scholars
Whether the Google books settlement passes muster with the U.S. District Court and the Justice Department, Google's book search is clearly on track to becoming the world's largest digital library. No…

September 17 2009, 2:24am | Comments
Bookmark 'Rosetta stone' offers digital storage for 1000 years
Researchers working in Japan say they might have the breakthrough archivists are praying for - a sealed permanent memory bank that will be easily readable now and far into the next…

July 30 2009, 2:04pm | Comments
Bookmark Smart machines: What's the worst that could happen?
An invasion led by artificially intelligent machines. Conscious computers. A smartphone virus so smart that it can start mimicking you. You might think that such scenarios are laughably futuristic, but some…

July 30 2009, 1:45pm | Comments
Bookmark Kindle and the future of reading, Nicholson Baker
I ordered a Kindle 2 from Amazon. How could I not? There were banner ads for it all over the Web. Whenever I went to the Amazon Web site, I was…

July 27 2009, 5:43pm | Comments
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July 12 2009, 3:54pm | Comments
Bookmark Beyond Postmodernism? Paul Virilio's Hypermodern Cultural Theory
Paul Virilio is one of the most significant French cultural theorists writing today.1 Increasingly hailed as the inventor of concepts such as 'dromology' (the 'science' of speed), Virilio is renowned for…

July 7 2009, 9:34am | Comments
Bookmark Tech Is Too Cheap to Meter: It's Time to Manage for Abundance,…
This is the power of waste. When scarce resources become abundant, smart people treat them differently, exploiting them rather than conserving them. It feels wrong, but done right it can change…

July 6 2009, 9:37am | Comments
Bookmark Michael Jackson's patented "Smooth Criminal" leaning shoes
Patent number 5255452, filed in 1992, shows how Michael Jackson and his dancers could lean at 45-degree angles during live performances of the song "Smooth Criminal". 1. A system for engaging…

June 27 2009, 4:38am | Comments
Bookmark NASA moon bombing violates space law & may cause conflict with lunar…
The planned October 9, 2009 bombing of the moon by a NASA orbiter that will bomb the moon with a 2-ton kinetic weapon to create a 5 mile wide deep crater…

June 23 2009, 1:39am | Comments
Bookmark Dual Perspectives Article
Not long ago mass media was about the only kind of culture there was. The lucky few creative works that made it into general circulation were what copyright law was supposed…

June 16 2009, 3:08pm | Comments
Bookmark Immortal Information
For centuries, archivists have noted a curious relationship between “quantity” and “quality” of items in their collections. That is, typically a storage medium’s durability is inversely proportional to the amount of…

June 16 2009, 10:38am | Comments
Bookmark Positions in Flux - Panel 3: Open Source - A scheme for…
The open source movement is driven by the idea of collective, process-based, sustainable production and improvement. In software development this strategy has already proven to be valid; however can this model…

May 20 2009, 9:25am | Comments
Bookmark Positions in Flux - Panel 2: New territories and cultures of the…
The panel New territories and cultures of the digital looked at the geographical shift that media culture currently undergoes. Europe, North America and Japan used to be at the forefront of…

May 20 2009, 9:24am | Comments
Bookmark The disembodied book
In the shadows of the global financial crisis of the early 21st century, another revolution is gathering pace, whose repercussions reach far beyond the current correctable economic buckling. It impact on…

May 17 2009, 3:24am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily The Next Great Discontinuity: The Data Deluge

May 5 2009, 7:35am | Comments
Bookmark MachineAnimalCollages
Fantastic meat landscapes and animals made of machinery

May 5 2009, 1:02am | Comments
Bookmark Within Any Possible Universe, No Intellect Can Ever Know It All |…
Deep in the deluge of knowledge that poured forth from science in the 20th century were found ironclad limits on what we can know. Werner Heisenberg discovered that improved precision regarding,…

March 17 2009, 9:35am | Comments
Bookmark Michel Serres: Journals/Articles
Writings about author, Michel Serres

March 11 2009, 10:45am | Comments
Writing for 3quarksdaily Writing (Hyper)text and Image
A Polyptychal Discursion: This text, designed with its own concerns in mind, diverges on many trajectories, crossing over itself, intersecting its arguments and statements with images and forms which question the traditional logic of the essay. This text will become enabled not through a…

February 23 2009, 7:07am | Comments
Ask Metafilter New theories of Mimesis (in digital/hypertextual/ hypermedial cultures) I am looking for writings on mimesis in regards new, digital, hypertext and hypermedial technologies and cultures. I am following the redefinition of mimesis. From Plato's disregard of oral culture, through his mimesis of Socrates' dialogues in writing. Following Plato, Aristotle's theory was…

February 16 2009, 7:09am | Comments
Bookmark Is Google Making Us Stupid? | The Atlantic
I can feel it, too. Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the…

February 2 2009, 4:58pm | Comments
Bookmark Simon Biggs
Website and interactive portfolio of artist

January 30 2009, 8:02am | Comments
Writing for Spacecollective How Things Become: The Infinity of Definition
The perceiver's position in an architectural, or merely physical space, determines the dimensional imperatives of that person's mental qualia. It is interesting to note that each viewer of a rainbow stands at the centre of their very own optical illusion; that light, once split…

December 29 2008, 10:47am | Comments
Ask Metafilter The phenomenology of text The phenomenology / ontology of text: has anyone examined this issue directly in philosophical, literary and/or critical terms? I am interested in the experience and perception of text, both within readership and on an abstract (more holistic level perhaps) as the archetypical mediator…

September 18 2008, 8:21am | Comments
Spacecollective.org How Technology "Reveals" the World

July 11 2008, 4:19am | Comments
Spacecollective.org The Metaphor is the Message Part II: Palimpsests Palimpsests Palimpsests

April 24 2008, 8:57am | Comments
Spacecollective.org The Archaeology of The Book

March 17 2008, 3:05am | Comments

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