Is that you, or am I experiencing Artificial Reality? - The New Yorker

In a conversation this afternoon with Ben Fullerton, the “trip computer” from the Talbot Alpine showed up. An awesome device from the past, one of those artifacts that was supposed to be “futuristic” at the time

The “Olympic Wifi Police”:

WTF

A project by Clement Valla:

One thing you seem to have got scarily accurate is the way advertising is weaved into the world around. Is that something that you foresaw coming, or just a good, estimated guess?

Nikola Tesla.

Object performativity, or to delegate self-defense to a non-human

Two fascinating projects by Joe Malia and aimed at exploring design for the “computer obsessive”: a “computer hood” and a “scarf/Playstation tunnel”, to “facilitate an amplified engagement between user and the computer, secluding them in a digital enclosure where the outside world is a memory and attention undivided”.