Color monopoly
We hear of corporations patenting or copyrighting anything they can lay their hands on, whether it is…
Rock Meets Art Meets wi-fi
https://niume.com/pages/post/m/index.php?postID=48407 This would actually be pretty cool if it were available at camp sites.
Gifts and Commodities
Here is Christopher Gregory’s book: gifted to you by the open access journal HAU.
The Matrix: Simulations and Simulacra
Figure 1. The Matrix, 1999. A shout out to Jean Baudrillard’s Simulacrum and Simulation as seen through the…
Debt, Exchange and Barter Theory
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!)
During last week’s hardware/software/wetware seminar I mentioned an interview on CBC radio with Nick Bostrom. Bostrom’s…
Earthquake beds
We briefly touched upon this topic in our class discussions on computers, systems and technology. Earthquake…
Hide your Wife hide your kids…The Matrix is Real!!
Depiction of anti-de Sitter space. Image: Wikimedia http://motherboard.vice.com/read/there-is-growing-evidence-that-our-universe-is-a-giant-hologram?utm_source=vicefbca So, I thought this was a pretty cool…