Infinite Innovation
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A Brief History of John Baldessari, as read by Tom Waits
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We hardly see this kind of innovations any more
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Terry Tietzen, founder and C.E.O. of Edatanetworks
Excerpted from:
Want to Innovate? Feed a Cookie to the Monster
“The subject of the latest Personal Technology column, the Lytro is an amusement for now, but is likely to change photography radically in the long run.”
An ambitious gesture-recognition system aims to let you use your body instead of a range of portable electronic devices.
(via courtenaybird)
For me, it started with the question, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”
Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory… . what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. My mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles.
With one Atlantic article, Nick Carr made it fashionable to vent about the internet’s effects on our brains and lives.
Actually, it was fashionable long before Carr’s article. And pessimism about new technologies started long before that. It began at least a couple of thousand years ago, when ancient Greeks like Socrates worried that the innovation of writing would ruin memories and the knowledge they house, which had always been passed on orally.
A good point and one we’ve noticed but not voiced. Do you worry about the effect of brilliant technology making all humanity, well, dumber? Or do you think it’s just irresistible for humans to fear the new?
E-lectra Sketch?
Christopher Mims writes:
Magnetic electronics and ferrous paper enable artistry in circuit design.
Leah Buechley is an assistant professor at the MIT Media Lab and the director of the aptly-named High-Low Tech research group. She does heaps of cool, subtle, under-appreciated stuff, and maybe some day when there’s a children’s toy, art class or hit product based on her work, she’ll be better known.
