Archive for the 'futurismo' Category
Tuesday, September 28th, 2010
Caught a Sept.23 post by David Byrne today, Don’t Forget the Motor City (found via a tweet by Richard Florida). Byrne writes: This is a city that still has an infrastructure, or some of it, for 2 million people, and now only 800,000 remain. One rides down majestic boulevards with only a few cars on […]
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Tags: detroit, motordom
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Friday, July 2nd, 2010
I go to my local YMCA a lot, and every time I’m there I think about energy use: how much energy I could be generating, how much I’m using, how much others are using. My “plus” membership entitles me to use the sauna and steam room, and I get towel service, too (yes! – love […]
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Tags: energy
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Friday, May 21st, 2010
Matt Jones’s presentation, “People are walking architecture,” offers much food for thought: on architecture and ubiquitous computing, Debord and Jobs, Saarinen and Shirky, and finally Jane Jacobs.
Filed under: architecture, cities, futurismo, ideas, innovation, jane_jacobs, land_use, ubiquity, urbanism. |
Tags: archigram
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Tuesday, April 6th, 2010
Richard Branson of Virgin Atlantic Airways co-founded the Carbon War Room, a virtual HQ to transform our carbon-based economy into something sustainable. Is man-made climate change prompting business leaders to act against self-interest in favor of the common good?
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Tags: carbon_war_room, richard_branson
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Saturday, April 3rd, 2010
Clay Shirky’s new post on The Collapse of Complex Business Models prompted me to some thoughts on the role of resilience within complex systems.
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Tags: clay_shirky, collapse
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Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
Google Wave makes room for Google Buzz, with default settings at “public” (not “private”), a very wrong move by Google. Meanwhile, chatroulette is what the kids are on, and it makes Buzzing look like holding hands in the park. The threat of harm in the promise of contact is part of the package. Fascinating.
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Sunday, June 28th, 2009
I just left this comment on avc.com. It’s me going off on a typical theory bender, but the idea of Twitter’s Suggested User List (SUL) sparked another “here come the Middle Ages” image/moment for me. (As I note in the comment, they’ve been popping up for me since the late 1970s: my first one happened […]
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Tags: avc, business_models, dave_winer, enlightenment, fred_wilson, markets, medievalism, modernity, sul, twitter
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Friday, May 23rd, 2008
Transmaterial 2: To Redefine Our Physical Environment – PingMag – The Tokyo-based magazine about “Design and Making Things” – Annotated PingMag interview with Blaine Brownell, architect and sustainable materials researcher, whose focus is on green building. “From repurposed materials that act as surrogates, to recombinant ones that fuse several materials into a hybrid, making them […]
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Monday, February 11th, 2008
A couple of days ago, I finished reading Walter Kirn‘s hilarious article, The Autumn of the Multitaskers, in the current issue of The Atlantic monthly. I suppose part of “successful” multitasking (if you grant that multitasking actually exists successfully in any way shape or form) is having a clear vision of what exactly it is […]
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