There are four people in remedy’s collective.
A presentation from the DIBI conference held in Gateshead in June 2011.
http://adactio.com/articles/4938/
The range of devices accessing the web is increasing. We are faced with a choice in how we deal with this diversity. We can either fracture the web by designing a multitude of device-specific silos, or we can embrace the flexibility of the web and create experiences that can adapt to any device or browser.
Host Liane Hansen speaks with Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein, authors of Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar… Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10158510
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We spy on the new culture of surveillance. Kurt Andersen talks to technologist and philosopher Jaron Lanier about why we have to watch the watchers. An artist meticulously tracks government spy satellites crossing the night sky. A computer scientist explains what goes into building a facial recognition system. And sitting silently in her car, a photographer secretly snaps pictures of strangers in their homes.
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This is the most amusing torrent of misanthropy I've heard in quite some time.
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The work we’re collectively doing—opening up gradually all of human information and media, making it recombinable, helping people create and share their work—is a huge unspoken, sexy, world-redefining mission.
It’s a mission that many of us have become blasé about, almost unaware of. It’s a project so large that it’s hard to get a grasp on. And the next few years are going to get even more interesting as the network pervades physical objects and environments, sensing and manifesting information in the real world.
It's time to recognise the scale of the project we have in front of us, the breadth of the material we have to work with, and the possibilities of design within it. All of human knowledge, creativity—even the planet itself—is our canvas.
http://2010.dconstruct.org/speakers/tom-coates
Tom Coates is a technologist and writer, focused on the shape of the web to come and on developing new concepts that thrive in it. He’s worked for many prominent web companies including Time Out, the BBC and Yahoo! where he was Head of Product for the Brickhouse innovation team. He’s most known for the Fire Eagle location-sharing service, and for his work on social software, future media and the web of data.
Ten years ago, Naomi Klein wrote "No Logo" - an attack on big money advertising. We talk with her about how the corporate world struck back, and politics in the age of "brand" Obama.
The "mind" and "self" were formerly the domain of philosophers and priests. Today, it’s neurologists who, armed with giant magnets, are asking the big questions, like "How does the brain make me?" We stare into the mirror with Dr. Julian Keenan, reflect on the illusion of self-hood with British neurologist Paul Broks, contemplate the evolution of consciousness with Dr. V. S. Ramachandran. Also, the story of woman who one day woke up as a completely different person.
Tim Ferriss changed the way the world thought about work with his recent bestselling book The Four Hour Workweek. In this interview from the 2009 RailsConf, David Heinemeier Hansson interviews Ferriss about his book, lifestyle design, information dieting, physical training, and overcoming the "snake oil salesman" perception that comes with making radical claims.
After being rejected by dozens of publishers because of the original title "Drug Dealing For Fun and Profit," Ferriss settled on the Four Hour Work Week after testing reactions to various titles online. This is just one of the ways he has used data rather than intuition to maximize his success and enjoyment. Others include physical feats like gaining 30 pounds of muscle in one month and becoming a world tango champion in less than a year based on reviewing 20 years of detailed exercise and diet data.
Start by examining your goals and priorities, then focus on the activities most likely to help you achieve them. This includes defining what you're not going to do as well as what you are. Success is much more likely to be achieved when you measure every step of your actions and question the accepted wisdom in any field. Exposing and avoiding limiting assumptions is worth more than extra time invested in ineffective activities.
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2010/09/10
It’s almost impossible to imagine a world without words. But in this hour of Radiolab, we try to do just that. We speak to a woman who taught a 27-year-old man the first words of his life, and we hear a firsthand account of what it feels like to have the language center of your brain wiped out by a stroke.
On Ugliness is an extraordinary road map to the perception of the grotesque over the centuries. Following on the heels of the book, History of Beauty, writer and scholar Umberto Eco considers how we perceive and define the corollary—the depiction of ugliness—the complete absence of beauty—from Ancient Greece to the present day.
Eco begins his fascinating discussion with the observation that the aesthetics of beauty have been defined and documented through the ages by philosophers, artists, and writers, while the same cannot be said for ugliness. Though ostensibly opposites, one thing beauty and ugliness share is the fact that they are defined by the culture and by the times—what is ugly in Paris may be beautiful in Papua, and what was beautiful in the 19th century, may be considered ugly in the 21st. Quoting from Hegel and Nietzsche, Plutarch, Aristotle and Darwin, Eco identifies three different phenomena: ugliness in itself, formal ugliness, and the artistic portrayal of both. As Eco states, “…we can almost always infer what the first two types of ugliness were [in a given time in history, and a particular society] solely based on the evidence of the third type.”
In Turning Back The Clock, Hot Wars and Media Populism, the time is 2000 to 2005, the years of neoconservatism, terrorism, the twenty-four-hour news cycle, the ascension of Bush, Blair, and Berlusconi, and the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. Umberto Eco’s response is a provocative, passionate, and witty series of essays—which originally appeared in the Italian newspapers La Repubblica and L’Espresso—that leaves no slogan unexamined, no innovation unexposed. What led us into this age of hot wars and media populism, and how was it sold to us as progress? Eco discusses such topics as racism, mythology, the European Union, rhetoric, the Middle East, technology, September 11, medieval Latin, television ads, globalization, Harry Potter, anti-Semitism, logic, the Tower of Babel, intelligent design, Italian street demonstrations, fundamentalism, The Da Vinci Code, and magic and magical thinking.
From http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/pep/pepdesc.cfm?id=3435
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