I had an odd experience whilst playing Skyrim. I had always been interested in playing this particular game. I started at the beginning of the game and began the main quest. As I went along I found that there were … Continue reading
Twitter is a wonderful thing. I know many detractors complain that there are so many people on twitter that it is impossible to say anything meaningful, but that simply is not true. I have proof now that people really do … Continue reading
Throughout the course of Memex to Youtube: Learning Nets I have always considered medium in the sense of communication which is defined by wikipedia as Media (singular medium) are the storage and transmission channels or tools used to store and deliver information or data. It is often referred to as synonymous … Continue reading
I have, over the course of the recent year, become obsessed with emergence. In philosophy, systems theory, science, and art, emergence is the way complex systems and patterns arise out of a multiplicity of relatively simple interactions. Emergence is central to the theories of integrative levels and of complex systems. Complex systems … Continue reading
I was watching a recent(ish) rediscovered interview with Steve Jobs called Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview and thought I should share it with you. It is on netflix and other places scattered around the web. You should definitely watch the … Continue reading
@romanmars produces a beautiful podcast titled 99% Invisible which is where I first heard of the Feltron Annual Report. The Feltron Annual Report is produced by this guy Nicolas Felton. It is a chronicling of the data that make up his life. … Continue reading
The computer is a tool that can augment metacognition. Seymour Papert says, “The intellectual environments offered to children by today’s cultures are poor in opportunities to bring their thinking about thinking into the open…Programming the Turtle [programming environment] starts by making one reflect … Continue reading
(aren’t titles fun?) I wish you could link in titles but that would be oddly disorienting so go here to see the definition of weasel words. I thought I would begin with the meaning of life. Life (cf. biota) is a characteristic that distinguishes objects that … Continue reading
Friedrich Nietzsche, the German philosopher, once said, “God is dead,” and he was not excited. He didn’t mean literally, of course. He had no divine insight. It was merely a cultural observation. Our world no longer accepted/accepts the wholesale conception … Continue reading