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[bytz] M¢Lµhan's Wake

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:41:11 GMT

M¢Lµhan's Wake

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[bytz] ...excape the vortex...

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 07:34:43 GMT

...excape the vortex...

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[bytz] urban legend

Sun, 09 May 2010 21:31:23 GMT

urban legend

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[bytz] " The CBS Radio Workshop was an “experimental dramatic radio anthology series”..."

Sat, 08 May 2010 15:21:57 GMT

The CBS Radio Workshop was an “experimental dramatic radio anthology series” that aired between 1956 and 1957. And it premiered with a two-part adaptation of Aldous Huxley’s now classic 1932 novel, Brave New World. Huxley himself introduced and narrated the program, and now this classic radio drama has resurfaced online. You can listen to

Part 1 here and

Part 2 here

–,o’ Open Culture

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[bytz] " ‘‘ So you thought augmented reality is something new? Guess you are so att..."

Tue, 06 Apr 2010 03:08:19 GMT

" ‘‘ So you thought augmented reality is something new? Guess you are so attuned to the already existing augmentation of reality that you don’t even notice it anymore. The short film Kapitaal gives you a clear impression of the enormous amount of visual stimuli that plague us every day. Due to the immense scale of the visual bombardment, the commercial effectiveness has become utterly dubious. ’’"

–Kapitaal « NextNature.net

[bytz] Edge was in Munich for DLD 2010 and an Edge/DLD event. The event,

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:30:06 GMT

Edge was in Munich for DLD 2010 and an Edge/DLD event. The event, entitled "Informavore", is a discussion featuring Frank Schirrmacher, Editor of the Feuilleton and Co-Publisher of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Andrian Kreye, Feuilleton Editor of Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Munich; and Yale computer science visionary David Gelernter, who, in his 1991 book Mirror Worlds presented what's now called "cloud computing".

Gelernter's June, 2000 manifesto, published by both Edge and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, was at the time widely read and debated. In it, he famously wrote: "Everything is up for grabs. Everything will change. There is a magnificent sweep of intellectual landscape right in front of us."

[bytz] via Running The Journal

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:03:55 GMT

via Running The Journal

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[bytz] "To illustrate the point, he told a story about a group of prehistoric cavemen..."

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:13:00 GMT

To illustrate the point, he told a story about a group of prehistoric cavemen having a conversation.

"Guess what?" the first man said. "We're talking." Silence. The others looked at him with suspicion.

"What's 'talking'?" a second man asked.

"It's what we're all doing, right now. We're talking!"

"You're crazy," the third man said. "I never heard of such a thing!"

"I'm not crazy," the first man said. "You're crazy. We're talking."

Talking, undoubtedly, was considered innate and natural until the first man rendered it visible by exclaiming, "We're talking."

A new invention has emerged, a code for the collective conscious, which requires a new way of thinking. The collective externalized mind is the mind we all share. The Internet is the infinite oscillation of our collective conscious interacting with itself. It's not about computers. It's not about what it means to be human — in fact it challenges, renders trite, our cherished assumptions on that score. It's about thinking. "We're talking."

–John Brockman
World Question Center 2010 — edge.org

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[bytz] WE WANT BEER

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:25:45 GMT

WE WANT BEER

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[bytz] 8 bit streetart.

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:55:14 GMT

8 bit streetart.

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[bytz] Working entirely with black and white colours, Ballard has covered the entire...

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:14:50 GMT

Working entirely with black and white colours, Ballard has covered the entire gallery – from floor to ceiling to walls – with an immersed artwork

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[bytz] RepRap

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 07:26:14 GMT

RepRap

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[bytz] melt like wax & wean o’ milk» courtesy designyoutrust

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 03:57:45 GMT

melt like wax & wean o’ milk

» courtesy designyoutrust

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[bytz] via Entr'acte - Tassili

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:26:47 GMT

via Entr'acte - Tassili

[bytz] US NOWA film project about the power of mass collaboration, the government an...

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:56:14 GMT

US NOW

A film project about the power of mass collaboration, the government and the internet. "In a world in which information is like air, what happens to power?" Must see!

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[bytz] via untitledarchive.com

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:22:58 GMT

via untitledarchive.com

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[bytz] (Image)

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:19:26 GMT

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[bytz] "I have been working on-and-off over the last few days on a BIG POST about sto..."

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:53:29 GMT

I have been working on-and-off over the last few days on a BIG POST about stories and how the social media revolution is putting the story at the centre of not just communications planning, but organisational management as well.

As part of this I was re-visting the ideas of Marshall McLuhan – author of ‘Understanding Media’ and originator of ‘medium is the message’ idea – a phrase many use, but much less understand I suspect. I read Understanding Media a long time ago and I have to admit I struggled a little with it. In particular I could never get the idea that a light bulb was a form of media. But thinking about this now – the light bulb went on. Basically a Twitter tag is McLuhan’s light bulb – a medium that has no content of its own, but creates a social effect through the space it brings into being. Ding!

This made me realise I must re-read McLuhan – I suspect there is much in his ideas about electronic interdependence, the end of print culture and, of course, the Global Village (his other phrase) that is probably very relevant to the social media revolution. I still don’t necessarily agree that the medium is the message – but I think McLuhan was right to highlight the extent to which the medium shapes the message in a world where we were taking the medium for granted. Now of course, the medium has sort-of just become the light bulb – all the rest is dissolving.

–A Twitter tag is McLuhan’s light bulb « Richard Stacy @ Stacy Consulting

[bytz] Ambi Pur: Now that's an eau de toilette

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:01:16 GMT

Ambi Pur: Now that's an eau de toilette
(Advertising Agency: JayGrey Sydney Australia)

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