Tag Archives: technology
links for 2010-03-24: vintage Marvin Minsky
Why People Think Computers Can't Marvin Minsky's 1982 article. In txt format! Read it like it's 1982! (tags: ai programming philosophy technology Marvin-Minsky)
links for 2010-03-20: $99 tablet
Marvell announces $99 Moby Tablet to Revolutionize Education – ARMdevices.net Am I a bad person for thinking that this gizmo looks considerably more enticing that the iPad? (via slashdot) (tags: tablet multitouch technology)
links for 2010-01-18: Eno and the end of records
Eno alludes in passing, to the end of recorded music as a way to make a living "I think records were just a little bubble through time and those who made a living from them for a while were lucky." … more…
links for 2008-01-23: Pioneer anomaly, Sterling’s Kiosk
Universe Today » A Possible Answer to Flyby Anomalies See previously (tags: astronomy physics space Pioneer Unruh-effect) Bruce Sterling – Kiosk What happens when 3D fabricators are capable of fabricating fabricators? (tags: Bruce_Sterling scifi fabrication technology)
links for 2007-11-26: Freud, Vinge
Freud Is Widely Taught at Universities, Except in the Psychology Department – New York Times passing strange. (tags: psychology academia science Freud psychoanalysis) Rainbows End, by Vernor Vinge Another complete novel for reading, if you can bear it, on screen. … more…
wave power
YouTube – New Invention [wave powered generator] Most ingenious, and very cheap to produce, by the looks. I like that it’s called Pandora’s Box, for reasons which for all I know are unintentional. It’s also an infectiously happy clip. I … more…
Al-Jazari’s Automata
Ibn Ismail ibn al-Razzaz al-Jazari (1136-1206) inventor and technological visionary author of The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices, also known simply as Automata. I’m not about to pretend to wax knowledgable about a person I was only vaguely … more…
links for 2007-10-10: flying robot spies
Dragonfly or Insect Spy? Scientists at Work on Robobugs Washington Post, already blogged all over the place. Just wanted to fix the date when these things were first seen in the wild. (tags: robot surveillance technology)
links for 2007-10-06: Vodou, iPhone
Vodou Brooklyn photos of vodou ceremony in Brooklyn with audio (tags: vodou ceremony Brooklyn religion) A Few Years After the Complete Collapse of the Global Economy, a Consumer Reporter Reviews the iPhone. McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: (tags: humor technology apple iPhone … more…
links for 2007-09-14: surveillance
FUTURE MAP « Continental Drift Or: How the Cyborgs Learned To Stop Worrying and Love Surveillance by Brian Holmes, via nettime looo-ong and interesting (tags: culture technology surveillance cybernetics)