Bruce Sterling's Blog, page 794
May 8, 2009
Thackara's Latest Doors of Perception
Doors of Perception Report
May 2009
With i-Borg in New York
by John Thackara
i-BORG
A new sign on Manhattan Bridge as you enter New York warns, "No Idling: $2,000
fine". Fat chance. The city would make more money if it fined people for using
iPhones whilst walking along. It's as if everyone has been Assimilated; iBorg,
disguised as cellphones, cling limpet-like onto everyone's hands.
DOCTORS
Free! Two Entire Days of Generative Infoviz Ambient Music
“The Sound of eBay” is an UBERMORGEN.COM project with Stefan Nussbaumer, online at www.sound-of-ebay.com since July 2008. Using eBay user data, The Sound of eBay generates unique songs. By simply entering any eBay username and clicking “generate”, the robots sprawl out into the net to collect data, bringing it back to the SC3 Supercollider sound-generation engine. The complex software-machine starts generating a score-file which is then transformed into a unique song."
"Crónica is delighted t
May 7, 2009
Business Process Modelling Notation Frequently Asked Questions
*Just how good IS "business process modelling notation?" Could
you write some "stage business" with BPMN? Like, say, a simple Marx Brothers
comedy routine where Harpo sets fire to somebody's hat?
Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) Information
Frequently Asked Questions (under development)
High-Level Questions (((this should be good)))
Technical Questions
High-Level (business) Questions
What is BPMN?
The Business Process Modeling
Spime Watch: Orchestrating an Internet of Things
(...)
"Imagine a future in which your fridge announces to you the recipes that can be prepared with the available goods, your TV tells you that your favourite program is beginning, the book you want to start reading is suggesting you try other similar books; and all of this is happening at the same time. Clearly living in such an environment on a daily basis would be annoying. (((Thank goodness that we've finally gotten to a point where des
Dead Media Beat: All Websites and All Online Communities
even faster than the old-school websites and today's primitive social nets.
*It's like living next to the volcano. The closer you get to digital technology,
the harder the ground shakes and the faster everything you know gets paved over with lava.
http://www.micropersuasion.com/2009/04/the-next-twitter-or-facebook-is-the-open-web.html
"The following is also my column in this week's issue of Adve
Centipede scandal claims the British psychotherapist
*He'd have been perfectly fine if somebody hadn't hacked his email.
*Just goes to show that modern psychological warfare is at the mercy of postmodern cyberwarfare.
*The gadfly here has been through this wringer before; he'll be back,
only next time he'll have better equipment.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/may/06/derek-draper-labour-list-editor
(...)
"Draper, who was notorious in the 90s as a New Labour spin doctor, was drawn into the furore after receiving an email fro
May 6, 2009
Back when you could literally 'hear the technology' in Japanese pop music
*It's all entirely different nowadays of course. For instance, if you meet a Japanese 11-year-old,
he's eager to tell you that it's all been done, and he's culturally exhausted. "I'm eleven now,
but when I'm 55, there will have been no significant developments anywhere in popular music
during my lifetime." Man, even Confucius would envy THAT level of cultural stability.
I blame computers.
*I love these YouTube "videos" where absolutely nothing happens, and the image
simply sits there,
Urban-scale sand-and-epoxy 3d building printer
*And it's Italian. Almost.
(...)
"Their D_shape technology makes it possible to 3D print 6 by 6 by 1m parts. These parts could either be shipped to the construction site or the entire building could be 3D printed on location. The parts made by D_shape resemble 'sandstone.' They are comparable in strength to reinforced concrete and the ingredients are the binding material and any ty
Parasitically Paralyzed by Digital Technology. Cultural Exhaustion Sets In
*I've been waiting for this thesis to show up. Sooner or later somebody was bound to
conclude that the Internet has done to culture what electronic banking did to finance.
*Interesting that this comes from a pop-music perspective, because musicians were
the first artists to find their industry genuinely shattered.... by digital production, by digital
recording, by digital sampling, by digital distribution, by digital promotion,
and by digital financial collapse.
http://www.newstatesman.co
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