December 2008
15 posts
What magical trick makes us intelligent? The trick is that there is no trick....
Charlie Rose - A conversation with founder of... →
beauty is truth
Producing Open Source Software →
Edge: "ARISTOTLE " (THE KNOWLEDGE WEB) →
by W. Daniel Hillis
metaweb - freebase.org
19.20.21. →
An animated info-graphic site looking through the main demographic and resource trends, and how they will play out over the next 90 years. Comes from the founder of TED Richard Saul Wurman.
In the Beginning was the Command Line →
Neal Stephenson
“The OS has (therefore) become a sort of intellectual labor-saving device that tries to translate humans’ vaguely expressed intentions into bits. In effect we are asking our computers to shoulder responsibilities that have always been considered the province of human beings—we want them to understand our desires, to anticipate our needs, to foresee consequences,...
Visualizing the Five Senses →
Tisch ITP course
MAKE: Blog: MAKE presents: The Resistor
The future is here, its just not evenly distributed yet.
– William Gibson