This was my new years prediction this year (sorry for the typo). Then on January 4, 2013 the MIT Technology Review published a blog post announcing the same thing (I would like to point out that I beat them to it … 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
This weekend Radiolab rebroadcast their episode on emergence. play this while you continue through the post emergent, adj. and n. Rising out of a surrounding medium, e.g. water. That is in process of issuing forth. Science. That emerges unpredictably as … Continue reading
This all began last year in a class called What Makes a Classic taught by the wonderful Dr. Britt. We were working through a list of works that were “classic” or were about what makes something a “classic”. I was particularly concerned with the … Continue reading
I have a love/hate relationship with upgrading. I love the new things it enables me to do/experience but I hate the actual process of doing it. Upgrading computers is expensive and largely a hassle. When I get a new phone … Continue reading
I felt it was in the spirit of Time Frames to create some time frames of my own. I hope you enjoy the recursion.
What does it mean to know your meme? The first criterion is that characters be “good”. Using the Aristotelian definition of “virtue”, good characters are those who successfully fulfill their function – that is, those who successfully formulate thought into … Continue reading
What do Anonymous and hip-hop culture have in common? The (in)famous hacktivist group Anonymous was born on 4chan and has claimed Guy Fawkes as its figurehead. It is a global collective which has no mission, no allegiance, and holds no punches. The whole idea … Continue reading
It occurred to me today that Mary Poppins bag is the ultimate metaphor for our personal computers, containing within them everything we may need. I finally was able to put this gif together after a prolonged struggle with youtube downloading … Continue reading
The engineers draw upon cultural metaphors and analogies to express the magnitude of the change, the shape of the as yet unseen medium. The storytellers and theorists build imaginary landscapes of information, writing stories and essays that later become blueprints … Continue reading