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Heftling (2012?)
Luminous Flux (2012–) ♥
Mixtapes (2011)
27 (2010) ♥Team Armin Soyka (2010)
26 (2009) ♥
Startupwiki (2009–)
LIF (2008)
Soup (2007–) ♥
Netznetz (2007–2008)
Metalab (2006–) ♥
CanvasPaint (2006)
Design portfolio (2005)
Textcounter.org (2003)
PS: If I write about events, that's cause I'm inviting you to come along. Get in touch!
LIF (2008)
Soup (2007–) ♥
Netznetz (2007–2008)
Metalab (2006–) ♥
CanvasPaint (2006)
Design portfolio (2005)
Textcounter.org (2003)
PS: If I write about events, that's cause I'm inviting you to come along. Get in touch!
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October 04 2011
“ Yes, things are a little screwy all over the place, but you can do ANYTHING you want now. NONE of the perfect software has been written. It's all waiting for improvement. You can do anything you want and profit from it. ”— Wccrawford countering the previous post on Hacker News
“ Computers have vastly underserved their users. ... It’s a beautiful shrine built on a foundation of tinker toys. ...— The Real Zack Morris | The State of the Art is Terrible
Today’s computing can’t take us into the future. ... Computer science has utterly failed to tackle the real world problems, things like automating jobs so people don’t have to work, or working hand in hand with humans to explore solutions we have trouble seeing ourselves. We are so far from a Star Trek-style future utopia that it breaks my heart. ...
You should literally be able to tell [the computer] what you want it to do and it would do its darnedest to do a good job for you. Computers today are the opposite of that. They own you and bend you to their will. And I don’t think people fully realize how trapped we are within this aging infrastructure. ...
The majority of users are algorithmically illiterate. That’s a travesty in 2011. ... Programming, at least the fundamentals, should be taught in elementary school just like any other language ... ”
Oh, what a lovely all-over-the-place rant.
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September 28 2011
“ The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into space - each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision. ”— Randall Munroe
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September 24 2011
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Reconstructing visual experiences from brain activity evoked by natural movies
The left clip is a segment of the movie that the subject viewed while in the magnet. The right clip shows the reconstruction of this movie from brain activity measured using fMRI. The reconstruction was obtained using only each subject's brain activity and a library of 18 million seconds of random YouTube video. (In brief, the algorithm processes each of the 18 million clips through the brain model, and identifies the clips that would have produced brain activity as similar to the measured brain activity as possible. The clips used to fit the model, those used to test the model and those used to reconstruct the stimulus were entirely separate.)
Waaaaaait, what? Hooooly crap! Brain spinning. O_O
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July 09 2011
“ Es gibt kein Real Life, nur ein Nahleben, das sich auf den Umkreis des Körpers beschränkt, und ein Fernleben, das den Geist entgrenzt. ”— haekelschwein
March 24 2011
“ I assume that Instagram-of-the-future will have filters like "way too much jpeg compression" and "bad metadata". ”— tominsam
October 17 2010
Unlogo is a web service that eliminates logos and other corporate signage from videos.
This is the first step towards a future in which people who can afford to do so will be running around with diminished reality goggles to filter out all the invasive targeted advertising. Soon thereafter, a nimble clothing brand will discover that logo-covered merchandise now actually works as a cloak of invisibility and find new ways of capitalizing on that. At this point the government steps in, requiring that all computer-modified vision feeds be passed through state-owned servers for safety and fraud detection reasons...click here to order my upcoming dystopian science fiction novel for just three easy payments of $19.84.
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July 13 2010
“ Politicians, capitalists, and officials are flotsam bobbing upriver on the tide of invention [powered by the free, democratized, ever-increasing exchange of ideas]. ... We may soon be living in a post-capitalist, post-corporate world where individuals are free to come together in temporary aggregations to share, collaborate, and innovate, and where websites enable people to find employers, employees, customers, and clients anywhere in the world. ”— Reason Magazine
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crunch
crunch
April 26 2010
The pixels... they're alive! (by Julia Tsao)
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April 25 2010
“— Up In The Futureas pixelized sediment.the past collects ever downward,The future drops in from above;forms a 'now' horizon.the 'top' of your windowIn this new text world,screen-based writing.direction of time-flow innow to shift the expectedTwitter -- they all workNews websites, blogs, friend feeds,”
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newnewsApril 04 2010
“ When the ecosystem stops rewarding complexity, it is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to say what happens in the future. ”— Clay Shirky
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cypher
cypher
November 13 2009
“ One day [we will] build the Pioneer 10 museum to celebrate the first artificial object to leave the solar system.— Comment on: Designing society for posterity
We'll build it around Pioneer 10, of course, perfectly co-moving. Visitors to the museum will be able to walk around the space-craft and admire its antique workmanship as it obliviously continues its steady journey towards Aldebaran. ”
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fin
fin
November 12 2009
Designing society for posterity
Thought-provoking essay by SF writer Charles Stross on the social and political challenge of keeping a society going in a closed system: "You, and a quarter of a million other folks, have embarked on a 1000-year voyage aboard a hollowed-out asteroid. What sort of governance and society do you think would be most comfortable, not to mention likely to survive the trip without civil war, famine, and reigns of terror?"Reposted from
snej
snejJuly 15 2009
“ Perhaps the Pacific ocean, the world’s biggest expanse, will one day become the new West, the new frontier, will one day hold the most diverse, innovative, prosperous civilization on Earth.— elzr on Seasteading
History hasn’t stopped, changes of this scale and strangeness will happen. ”
“ What used to take up a building now fits in my pocket, and what now fits in my pocket will fit inside a blood cell in 25 years. ”— Ray Kurzweil on How to Combat Aging via elzr
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July 02 2009
Congratulations Human, You've Been Accepted to Singularity University. This is genius. "TV/VCR Repair" FTW.
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antifuchsApril 03 2009
“ World's prime vital problem: How to triple swiftly safely satisfyingly overall performance realizations per pounds kilowatts manhours of world's comprehensive resources, rendering those resources capable of supporting one hundred per cent of humanity's increasing population at ever higher standards of living than any human minority single individual has known or dreamed of. ”— Buckminster Fuller: I seem to be a verb
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giania
giania
February 05 2009
“ Most meta-level reporting of trends show a world that is getting better. We live longer, in cleaner environments, are healthier, and have access to goods and experiences that kings of old could never have dreamed of. If that doesn't make us happier, we really have no one to blame except ourselves. Oh, and the media lackeys who continue to feed us the litany of woes that we subconsciously crave. ”— Chris Anderson
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January 03 2009
What will change everything?
is this year's Edge annual questionNovember 25 2008
“ Politics, always a crippled, lagging indicator of social change, will be the last entrenched oligopoly to be squashed like a bug on the windshield of history. ”— The Libertarian Moment – Reason Magazine
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