Self Assembling Robots
These are small robots that have the capacity to self assemble into ‘architectural’ forms. This is a very big change, and while we can get all whatever about tech determinism the key thing... Read More
Unsymposium 0.8
Carry over questions: (from a couple of weeks ago): Why didn’t Tim Berners-Lee patent the web? We’re used to the idea of the internet being characterised as a democratic, open, non-hierarc... Read More
11 Reading (for Week 12)
A speculative piece that comes from the point of view of art to close out the semester: Dietz, Steve. “Ten Dreams of Technology.” Leonardo 35.5 (2002): 509–522. MIT Press Journals. W... Read More
Black Boxes, Algorithmic Decisions
Nice article in The Atlantic on recommendation algorithms and those that rely less on social endorsement than automatic other things. The important thing is the bias that systems always exhibit, and t... Read More
More Symposium Take Aways
David D on the Facebook hack, Kevin Bacon, why not become a hub, and that you need to do it. (Related to that thanks to Boglarka for this gem.) Denham on the Facebook hack, making, and the new world o... Read More
Paul Revere, Social Graph, Speculative Writing
The readings about networks and graphs. Facebook has what it calls a social graph, which is the data it maps about all our connections. I can’t do the mathematics behind it, but it is potentiall... Read More