Bruce Sterling's Blog, page 119

C S Lewis pondering science and magic

*From “The Abolition of Man,” of 1943, which strikes me as being the first book that speculates about posthumanism from the point of view of...

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Web Semantics: The vocabulary of the Industrial Internet of Things, version 2.1

*It’s an epic struggle for the IoT to define what they’re talking about. Wander over here and you can fetch the dot-pdf Copyright © 2018,...

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Aram Bartholl’s shopping cart is empty

*He sure is staying busy, though. Your Shopping Cart Is Empty Solo show by Aram Bartholl Emmanuel gallery, University of Colorado, Denver August 31 –...

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Design Fiction: Croatian speculative designers riffing on world calamity

*That long article is not real coherent, but it’s hard to beat for erudite. If you went and Googled everybody they were name-checking, you would...

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Maker Faire guys explaining the humble origin of their movement

*It’s good to know things like this. All you need is some talent and a millionaire tech publisher and, well, take it from there

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Slovenian axolotls

*On mature consideration, yeah, I would go. Just to say I’d been there and done that, I reckon. ———————————————— Panel discussion and exhibition opening Robertina...

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Dead Media Beat: Microfilm lasts half a millennium

*If anybody reads it, that is. Read any microfilm lately? Me neither by CRAIG SAPER JUL 22, 2018 (…) Recently, as revelations about the extent...

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XKCD cartooning about dead media

*Yup. That’s the story.

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The Large Green Circle

*Of 1979. Early vocal computing.

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A mitochondria hack

*When and if people start hacking the aging process, Aubrey de Grey style, it’s not gonna be a fizzing blue beaker full of immortality potion....

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