Bike riding typographic designer of English/Swedish stock living in Prague.
There are no people in robsog’s collective.
This article was written for Scroll magazine number two, on the theme of “place”, where it appeared in edited form as “Disrupting the Conceptual Metaphors of the Web”:
http://scrollmagazine.com/number-2/conceptual-metaphors
We’ve developed an array of metaphors for talking about the intangible spaces of the web. Maybe it’s time to unshackle ourselves from some of them.
Over the past several years, we’ve watched as a very wide variety of objects and surfaces familiar from everyday life have been reimagined as networked information-gathering, -processing, -storage and -display resources. Why should cities be any different?
What happens to urban form and metropolitan experience under such circumstances? What are the implications for us, as designers, consumers and as citizens?
http://2009.dconstruct.org/schedule/adamgreenfield/
Adam Greenfield lives in a city and thinks you probably do, too.
Cory reads from his own book. Part 2.
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Cory Doctorow reads from his own book. Part 1.
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Spark is CBC’s technology show. It usually focuses on what’s new and upcoming in technology but a recent episode celebrated the joys of old technology. One of the topics they took on was the quirky QWERTY layout of keyboards. The design has been around since the invention of the typewriter But why is it still around?
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Part visionary, part mad scientist, and absolute genius, Tesla should be as famous as Edison – but he’s been largely forgotten. Kurt talks with Samantha Hunt about her new novel The Invention of Everything Else. Tesla is the protagonist, and despite the outlandish biographical details all through the book, there was very little she had to make up.
John Naughton* talks about Jonathan Zittrain’s ‘The Future of the Internet – and how to stop it.’
*John Naughton is Professor of the Public Understanding of Technology at the Open University and Director of that university’s Relevant Knowledge programme. He is also: A Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge and Director of the college’s Press Fellowship Programme; a columnist on the London Observer, for which he writes the ‘networker’ column; a director of the Ndiyo Project and of Cambridge Visual Networks Ltd; a member of the Advisory Board of Bloomsbury Academic Publishing; an historian of the Internet (his book, A Brief History of the Future, is published by Phoenix and has been translated into a number of languages including Chinese). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and was a member of the group which wrote the Adelphi Charter on Creativity, Innovation and Intellectual Property.
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It is now conventional wisdom that the newspaper as we have come to know it for last century is over, or will be in a matter of years. The question is whether we’re going to spend our time grieving over the loss, or whether we’re going to use this moment as an opportunity to invent something even better. We’re inevitably moving from the "paper of record" model to a something more distributed, a news ecosystem, but that doesn’t mean we can’t consciously define the shape of that system. So let’s figure out what values we want to preserve from the older newspaper paradigm, and what values we want to improve upon — and then let’s go build it!
Steven Johnson, outside.in
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Jeremy expounds on Benford’s Law and Power-law distributions.
We speak to mathematician Marcus du Sautoy, who is replacing Dawkins as chair for the public understanding of science at the University of Oxford
"It captures precisely the things that I love doing," Marcus du Sautoy tells Alok Jha and James Randerson as he prepares to take up the post of Simonyi chair for the public understanding of science at the University of Oxford in December.
"One is high-level science … and the other is communicating it. It gives me the brief to do the two things that I love doing." Accordingly, du Sautoy will continue to pursue his passion for prime numbers, number theory and group theory as professor of mathematics at Oxford.
Earlier in October he came into the studio to talk about The Story of Maths, a series of films he has made for BBC4 where he travels the globe looking for the roots of his subject.
As the new chair for the public understanding of science he will be stepping into the boots of Richard Dawkins, but he insists he won’t be pursuing his predecessor’s anti-religious agenda. "I’m bracing myself for people asking me whether I believe in god. I’m an atheist, but for me the important thing is the wonder of science. There are so many exciting things to talk about. My focus is going to be very much on the science and less on religion."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/audio/2008/oct/28/marcus-du-sautoy-richard-dawkins
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