Near Future Laboratory Blog
Near Future Laboratory Blog
Thoughts, Reflections, Updates & Week Notes
Sep 29, 2010 – Nov 10, 2010
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Nov 10, 2010
These past weeks I had to chance to work with the alpha version of Impure, a new visual programming environment developed by my good friends at Bestiario. Impure offers a full visual language to retrieve, manipulate, process and visualize information:
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Connecting people
Nov 09, 2010
While I was in Barcelona to attend the Barcelona Design Week, Josep Blat presented at the Foro de Movilidad de RedIRIS in Madrid the research themes and works developed with him as my PhD supervisor. RedIRIS provides highspeed Internet connectivity and other network facilities for the academia in Spain. On their inv…
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Tuesday October 26 15:22
Nov 01, 2010
Just a short note to draw your attention to this cool quarterly journal called Volume which you may already know about but which I only heard about when they asked if I would contribute a short piece on Design Fiction. Basically it is a condensation of the longer essay from last winter which is presently offline due…
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Oct 20, 2010
The fine folks at Piemonte Share in Torino are doing a creative competition called Action Sharing 2!
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Oct 18, 2010
Well, got about half way through the new Steven Johnson book Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation and still going. He tells a good story and I believe much of it. There’s something funny going on in there, though. I’ll sort it out. Seems maybe a bit simple in its argument — things alongside…
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Note to Self
Oct 17, 2010
If I followed this to its logical yet design fiction-y conclusion, I’m sure I’d find the devil himself. GeneralAddictionAppleiPhone
Friday October 08 13:37
Oct 13, 2010
The only thoughts that have occurred to are these:
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Oct 06, 2010
Well, probably the most intriguing thing that happened last week was the unexpected conversations that started up around the graphs of the future presentation I gave (all of 15 minutes) at the University of Michigan last Saturday the 2nd. It wasn’t unexpected in the sense that it was an award-winning 15 minutes of f…
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Sep 29, 2010
At the Microsoft Research Social Computing Symposium 2010, it was a pleasure to hear Steven Johnson drop a few tidbits on his soon-to-be-released book Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation he described an interesting perspective on the history of ideas — or in a more marketable, business-type…
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