As an active participant in the Information / Communications Technology domain (ICT), this is perhaps one of the most influential videos I have seen in the last several years. We are now, again (as with the emergence of the Internet), on the verge of a new great frontier in human ingenuity. I’ve been tracking the [...]
Douglas Rushkoff drops the word at SXSW conference on programming reality: “We are attempting to operate our society on obsolete code. … Legacy sytems to legacies we don’t even remember. … How much of this is the bias of the medium, and how much is it the biases of the people who program our technology [...]
Greg Lynn explains the concept behind New City, a new virtual world. The architectural topology of such a world “map” is based on transmorphic manifolds, and context relative perceptive “lenses”:
I’ve been doing some deeper research into Tangible User Interfaces (TUI), and specifically–multitouch screen technologies. As a Flash developer, I’ve been waiting for the day to put my interactive art onto a touch-screen surface. I’m amazed to discover just how far things have come, and especially in the blooming creative community developing around open-source and [...]
Everyone and their grandmother’s dog needs a website with good design presentation, key functionalities, and the ability to manage the content themselves or as an organizational team. This later aspect is referred to as a Content Management System (CMS). Years ago, it was typical to the internet industry to contract a “Web Master” to manage [...]
With new technology comes new possibilities to execute technique. If we look to the trend of advents in internet protocols, we see how particular innovations in the information technology domain resulted in tremendous transformative effects in social, economic, and political arenas. The TCP/IP protocol allowed for the identification of independent computers, and for the transfer [...]
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