February 2012
19 posts
“The success of environmentalism has been total—at the price of its soul.”
– Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist | Orion Magazine
“Art “upgrades” poorer neighborhoods by aestheticizing their status as urban...”
– Art as Occupation: Claims for an Autonomy of Life | e-flux (via anfischer)
Autonomous Angels of Maintenance →
In what appears to be a sponsored post, a short article published on Wired UK presents an interesting scene in which semi-autonomous robots protect undersea internet cables from harm—that is, “dexterous robots toil at the bottom of the sea to safeguard the web.
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How One Ship's Anchor Disrupted Internet Access in... →
In a reminder of just how fragile this web we’ve weaved across the globe is, a ship dropped anchor outside the Kenyan port of Mombasa and happened to hit a bundle of undersea fiber optic cables connecting east Africa to the Internet. Now, the BBC reports, six countries — Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Ethiopia, and a piece of South Sudan — are going to experience Internet...
“Man ‘in dispelling one wilderness… has created another,’...”
– Keller Easterling - Organization Space
“In the same way that many organizations change or grow as a result of their own...”
– Keller Easterling - Organization Space
“Pheasant Island is not only the oldest surviving condominium, it is also the...”
– The World’s Most Exclusive Condominium - NYTimes.com
“What we need now, acutely, is a generation of technologists who understand the...”
– Of sidewalks and signals: Learning to listen on the urban frequency | Urbanscale
Will the New Tech of 2012 Prove as Successful as... →
“Sometimes, I look at the last century and I think, the most underrated part of their technologies were that they required lots of people doing bearable stuff for decent money. ”
January 2012
31 posts
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“There are three hypotheses about the inhabitants of Baucis: that they hate the...”
– Italo Calvino
“Beware of saying to them that sometimes different cities follow one another on...”
“Angry game owners are demanding Google (NSDQ: GOOG) compensate them for wiping...”
– Virtual Pet Owners Sue Google Over Lost ‘Gold’ | paidContent (via new-aesthetic)
“In the lives of emperors there is a moment which follows pride in the boundless...”
– Italo Calvino
Spiritual Dad →
If it makes oil deals like a country, or jails... →
“Here’s how it works: You snap a photo of your meal and caption it. The app...”
– Trying it this week, we’ll see how it goes
I don’t know if this is the answer, but it’s original and insightful. It’s the most promising approach I’ve seen in the emerging world of comparable approaches.
Massive Health iPhone App Gets You To Eat Better, Using The Crowd’s IQ | Co.Design
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“When you argue on the internet people are less likely to remember whether you...”
– Merlin Mann (via kevinlepore)
You listen to Back to Work too?
“Today, rich and poor, colonizer and native, First and Third World live virtually...”
– Wendy Brown - Walled States, Waning Sovereignty
“As scenes of awe, rather than efficacy, and of force rather than right, the new...”
– Wendy Brown - Walled States, Waning Sovereignty
“It is very interesting, clicking nothing,” Scriven says. “But then, we were...”
– http://bit.ly/u4M4AY
“I don’t envy the boy ruler. I just don’t think he’s going to die in bed.”
– Bradley Martin, an expert on North Korea, puts forward a grim prognosis for the country’s new ruler. It seems unlikely that Kim Jong Un will want to reform the rogue state, writes our correspondent, but even less likely that the regime can go on resisting change. (via theeconomist)
“The Maginot Line, which stood for the defense of France’s eastern border...”
– Wendy Brown - Walled States, Waning Sovereignty
Frontiers through the Ages
dbreunig:
Water, 1400
Land, 1840
Gold, 1850
Wire, 1880
Air, 1900
Celluloid, 1920
Plastic, 1950
Space, 1960
Silicon, 1980
Networks, 1990
Data, 2000