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Category: Past
29.01.12
Back to the Future: Forgotten Visions of Our Present Day
The second of two articles in a series on past imaginings of fantastical futures.
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21.01.12
Hyperland (1990) and the Company That Sold Us the Future
The first in a series of blogs on forecasting the future - the future, that is, in which we now live.
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17.01.12
The Pirate and the Priest: How Digital Turned into Divine
An essay on the strange pertinence of Kopimism and the history of technospirituality.
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06.10.11
Steve Jobs 1955-2011: A Video Rewind
This collection of videos is intended to describe a man with ruthlessly vigorous creativity, poise and vision.
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05.10.11
iPhone 4S: False prophets and a phone that wants to be your friend
The iPhone 4S has caused some disappointment - perhaps of biblical proportions.
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02.10.11
L'arrivée d'une nouvelle réalité
An essay on the non-existence of reality.
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10.08.11
Predicting a Riot: What Violence Means for "Society"
In assessing the visibility of the network among rioters and anti-rioters, it is possible to see how many kinds of violence have been done.
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11.07.11
Facebook, the Projected Self and Narcissism
Narcissism is difficult to define, but it seems to crop up everywhere. And Facebook doesn't try to stop it.
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03.06.11
Self-Sacrifice in the Age of the Gadget
Why the actions of China's kidney-selling iPad aficionado speak volumes about the history - and future - of human civilization.
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12.05.11
The Computer Virus: Our Cultural Contagion
In an exploration of viral history and discourse, the harrowing truth emerges: we're all infected.
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29.11.10
The Machine Stops: Forster's Dystopia
Forster's story is a dark and ruthlessly ominous vision of the future. But does it include an accurate representation of the internet?
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"Above you, beneath you, around you is the machine..."
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Facebook, the Projected Self and Narcissism
Self-Sacrifice in the Age of the Gadget
Podcast 3: From the Programmer's Perspective
Lucidending: Empathy, Online
New Adam Curtis Doc Questions our Subservience to Machines
The Quality of Offline and Online Friendships
The Interface and Hyperreality
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