internet-of-things

"Practical Design Fiction", metafictional machine gods and the blocky prototypes of the Holographic Universe

Matt Jones gave this talk at #interaction15 earlier this year, which went up on vimeo some four weeks ago, which I’m only watching and processing now because I’ve been elsewhere. BUT… drilling deeper into the mechanics of design fiction and its implications for #thework are very high on my permanent #todolist for this hashtaggin’ year. […]

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“It’s like Gnosticism meets Russian Cosmism, but for the Internet-of-Things” – A Kids Movie

Amazon Echo is the latest pitch by the Stacks to get their variously embodied AI fronts out of their servers and into your house. For Big Data to get its hands all over your stuff; physical or virtual. To insinuate themselves into your reality and make themselves an integral, indispensable part of your lives and […]

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