DISCUSSION

Writing

17 Mar – jordan

Imagine a man and his little daughter. They are playing a game on the banks of…

Syrnet – A pirate network of small FM transmitters

16 Mar – yves

We watched a comedic video on “underground network mugs” in one of the classes. Something similar is…

Color monopoly

16 Mar – yves

We hear of corporations patenting or copyrighting anything they can lay their hands on, whether it is…

Rock Meets Art Meets wi-fi

14 Mar – brymyles

https://niume.com/pages/post/m/index.php?postID=48407 This would actually be pretty cool if it were available at camp sites.

Violence Against Robots :(

14 Mar – brymyles

This is priceless! …and topical

Gifts and Commodities

4 Mar – kate

Here is Christopher Gregory’s book: gifted to you by the open access journal HAU.

The Matrix: Simulations and Simulacra

3 Mar – psun

Figure 1. The Matrix, 1999. A shout out to Jean Baudrillard’s Simulacrum and Simulation as seen through the…

Exchange

3 Mar – brymyles

This is an interesting chapter that I really didn’t expect to find in this book. It…

Debt, Exchange and Barter Theory

3 Mar – psun

Figure 1. Found image. According to David Graeber in his book Debt: the first 5000 years, barter…

Superintelligence and the Future of Humanity (no big deal!)

29 Feb – kate

During last week’s hardware/software/wetware seminar I mentioned an interview on CBC radio with Nick Bostrom. Bostrom’s…