Bruce Sterling's Blog, page 81

Torino City Lab

*Okay, it’s an ad for the town, but it’s got the Torino Fab Lab in it, among many other of my favorite hang-outs. *Some foreigner...

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Torino as a user-centric digitally easy smart city

*I like it a lot that the user-centric figure in this video appears to have an actual name: “Federica Neri.”

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Updating the “biohacker” scene for 2019

*I kind of like having them out in the open where I can see ’em. After all, imagine what the GRU’s secret-poisoner biohacking labs must...

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Milanese cyberpunks confront J. G. Ballard in his home, 1994

*What a splendid encounter. Nobody knows what is going on. Got bless all of them.

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Augmented Reality: new Hololens ad

*It’s an ad. An ad chock-full of augmentation.

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Stephen Wolfram and his personal productivity set-up

*I’m always interested in people’s desks and offices. I’ve noticed that the more “formally productive” my situation is, the less I actually get done. Whenever...

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Karl Lagerfeld quotes

*Those are pretty good. You can see why important and powerful people were afraid of him, the world’s deepest superficial guy. Yes, we link to...

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Why tobacco is bad for you

*This is a remarkable erudite argument, and the state of the art in medical wisdom in 1604. I’d never heard the argument that tobacco was...

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Python on Hardware ouroboros

*The Adafruit people had me with that ouroboros. I couldn’t help myself. *Most people who spend a ton of time on Youtube will slowly turn...

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Piedmontese Internet

*Not to get all Italian-regionalist here, but if they’d waited for their nation’s capital to give them some fiber in their ground, they’d still be...

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