Tag: technology
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speed
The world’s fastest bike ride: 132 kilometres/hour. Wow. A pity Wired classified the article under ‘cars’.
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Secondlifelike
I’ve been exploring Second Life for a teaching project at Aberdeen. There are a staggering number of good and helpful people and resources out there, and it would be immoral...
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Subversion, Conversion and so forth:
I’m on the train home after an intense conference on using anthropological and design tools to thwart planned obsolescence. Another view of the conference used ThoughtMesh to build a picture...
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Old theory and not so old technophile
This is an interesting encounter. Rheingold is a hero of the technorati and was one of the first people to theorize online communities. His first-person description of trying to talk...
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anti-fix
Yesterday I finally made my daughter Tanglewest’s birthday cake, nearly a week after it should have been delivered. The fact that no one seems to have been unduly upset by...