Technology View mid-2018
2 June 2018
In 2018 you can build your own website in 5 minutes, with no technical skills. You can edit video in your phone. You can do
In 2018 you can build your own website in 5 minutes, with no technical skills. You can edit video in your phone. You can do
I had written my dissertation about this seeming convergence of movements. Everyone thought I was completely crazy. I didn’t think it would happen so soon.
Nutrition “science” is so unreliable that it can hardly be trusted, and for this reason, I sympathize with people who resign themselves to mystery unaided
the future of work Neither the alterglobalization movement nor the Left have a coherent vision of liberated work, other than less of it with bathroom
“You have presented things I have never seen in the same chain of meanings.”
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Andrew’s comparison of the global consolidation of media with the global consolidation of food, gave me an idea! I’ve been applying the model of the
Today my beloved MacBook Pro fried its logic board…Why is there so much consumer choice but not what I want?…But my real question is why aren’t companies somebody refurbishing the beautiful, solid old hardware chasses of these classic designs. Convert those BMWs and Mercedes to electric systems? Design lightweight guts for those beautiful PowerBooks and Communicators. If corporate design can’t match vintage classics, then innovative small companies should be designing custom kits to keep these beauties on the road.
As a budding Australian, I learned this week that right-wierdo Tony Abbott’s budget cuts are spurious. The agenda of the cuts is to eliminate the
The prison industrial complex is based on the insight that bodies can be made profitable without their consent. You just need the right regulatory framework.
Both vertical and horizontal integration being tedious, the new business model is getting out of the business of making things and into the business of
LAB lab A Lab for Interventions, Innovations, Iterations to facilitate: Local Food, Objects, and Quality of Life – Artisan Economics and Meaningful Work – Biospheric
I’ve never written, or even articulated, anything about fashion before. But we just saw Mademoiselle C, which displays the eccentricity and waste of high fashion
exhibit: Local Objects artist: Amory Starr gallery: Gaffa, 281 Clarence Street context: Sydney Design Week 2013 run: 25 July – 5 August. opening: 25 July
Gold bugs, income-tax-is-illegalists, illuminati cogniscentis, federal reserve suspicionists … get a bad rap from the left, who rebuke these analyses as “conspiracy theory”. We are
Since consumption is one of the major places we express our values and try to make a difference in the world, conversations about ethics and
Ok, so we’re cyborgs now. This means that we will start to notice performance differences among us which are based on purchased augmentations. If you
At the centre of my design interventions is the idea of working in the margins, on the edge, in the spaces between. “Embodiment” refers to
There are quite a number of things that I would LOVE to be able to pay an artisan to make/fix/modify for me. The number one
We have a story that people are lazy. They’d rather watch TV. I don’t think this is true. I think the truth might be the
Last night I went to see some art, without knowing the topic in advance. And it was another post-apocalyptic.global-warming theme. It was indeed frightening. (Fake
Musicians, hackers, and writers are in mess right now, because they love making stuff and they want to share it, but the internet makes everything
Now that I’m on twitter i can’t always keep track of where I hear things from, but the happy outcome is that I’m getting in
Social entrepreneurship is a model of social change quite different than social movements, but it is not necessarily for-profit. (Bornstein, 2007) Responding to a political
I’ve been talking with the awesome Charles Heying, author of Brew to Bikes (2010) about naming this movement. Is it: slow: “seeking to do everything at
I don’t usually eat meusli, but my body targeted its cravings that way last week, and I follow. I found a beautiful one, and expensive,
I use to teach economics. Now I’m a professional artist and I teach. Often I spend 4 hours preparing a class that earns $50. My
I’ve been writing about the ravages of globalization and peoples’ ferocious rejection of its conditions for a long time. I researched and wrote about the
