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Featuring wind turbine blades and solar panels, the sci-fi windmill would generate power for a fleet of flying trams, alleviating congestion in the city. The adventurous reuse proposal for the “heat-damaged and conceptually flawed” wheel, which closed 40 days after it opened in 2009 when cracks appeared in the frame, features landscaped platforms elevated above a newly-greened Docklands.
The detailed visualisations were created by architectural photographer Peter Bennetts, multi-disciplinary design form Büro North and film and media production studio Squint Opera. Soren from Büro North says: “There are some serious ideas and questions amongst the madness. How to efficiently adapt, reuse and re-function outdated infrastructure as we move to a more sustainable future.”
(((Which vaguely ties back to a kinda urban re-wilding that Schroeder briefly touches on in the previous video, via Cory’s themepunk work)))
Read moreThis panel was held at Boskone 47 in Boston, MA on February 12th, 2010. Moderating was the Guest of Honor, Alastair Reynolds. Other panel participants included several time Hugo Award winner Vernor Vinge, Locus Award winner Charles Stross, and Karl Schroeder.
The Singularity: An Appraisal on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
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Read moreCybergangs rise and fall in varying degrees of anonymity and alliances with Russian, Chinese and other governments that are more ad hoc than understood. Norms of behavior among individuals and governments are a moving target. Crimes are not solved as much as controlled, through informal alliances of small agencies within and outside the state, or when there is publicity of the crimes that embarrasses higher ups in government.
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In this world, criminals help the Russian military invade Georgia by blowing out many of that country’s computers, and spam from Nigeria has coded instructions for an attempted coup in the Ivory Coast. Over dozens of scams, only a handful of people are nailed. Far more are protected.
A protester dressed as a Na’vi inhabitant of Pandora uses a plastic bag to avoid tear gas fired by Israeli border police during a protest in Bilin (via Palestinians dressed as the Na’vi from the film Avatar stage a protest against Israel’s separation barrier – Telegraph)
Read moreRead moreLast night I dreamed that one of my authors (no name or face that I can recall – one of the phantasms created by the half-waking imagination) had sold me rights to a novel he’d written, and was eager for me to publish it as an ebook. It turned out that the “ebook” we were developing was actually a movie that took place in an augmented reality overlay projected directly onto the mind’s eye, mixing what the author had imagined with what the viewer was actually seeing and experiencing at the time. Every version of the movie was different, because the story had to be overlaid on what the viewer was encountering in the real world. At one point in the dream, Eric Schmidt of Google was particularly excited because a sailing scene in the story warned him about a hidden reef that his boat had to avoid.
Bruce Sterling defines Atemporality at Transmediale
Previously on Grinding I posted a video of Bruce talking about Gothic High-Tech and Favella Chic in his Reboot 11 closing speech. In it, he mentions he was trying to make concrete his notion…
Bruce Sterling defines Atemporality at Transmediale
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The Committee to Nuke Elysium 