Architecture will eat itself
Presentation given at Game Developers Conference 2001, where current “real” architecture is seen as more fabulous and exotic than architecture in current games…
GDC 2001:Current Architecture and Potential Approaches to Level Design
By Duncan Brown
Ben Fry’s Thesis
“There is a space of highly complex systems for which we
lack deep understanding because few techniques exist for visualization
of data whose structure and content are continually changing.”
thanks to Andrew Otwell for pointing this out.
“There’s nothing so uncommon than common sense”
HCIRN Reflections: Why is usability so hard?
Self-organise yo’self a CLUE…
“Reputed ballbusting megalomaniac Don Tapscott has made
a breathtaking discovery: “Self-organizing communities.” They come as a
revelation to executives whose entire knowledge of the Web dates back
to 1997 and revolves around Microsoft MSN Hotmail, Microsoft Internet
Explorer, and Microsoft Outlook. To this clientele, the only Internet
is the corporate Internet. The only sites they know are those subject
to extensive ad campaigns and regular coverage on CNN, which indeed is
now the proprietor or competitor of nearly all such corporate sites.
It astounds these ignoramuses that “consumers,” the only
audience they could imagine for any Web site, would dare defy the
instructions of marketing and read what they want without being
herded.”
NUblog: Are you self-organised? Have you been self-organised recently?
More ammo
Very, very useful process diagram from the lady who does emdesign.com. I wish I had something this good to give away to the design community…
Infotech, biotech and nanotech
“…at the age of 2 to 3 years old, humans hit their
peak with a quadrillion synaptic connections, and twice the energy burn
of an adult brain.”
No wonder my brain hurts when I try to think.
The new convergence: Infotech, biotech and nanotech
By Steve Jurvetson
A prize…
…to the first person who writes a wireless worm to nuke novelty
ringtones and set all phones in the world to silent alert permanently.
Random
thoughts: this sound like it’s just meXe from a couple of years back,
yes it’s a probably gonna be full of hideous security holes, and more
evidence that the wireless world is NOT going to be ANYTHING like the
page-based web.
Paul Kahn’s ‘Mapping Websites’ seminar
I haven’t read the book so let me know if reading this can save you 20 quid.
William Gibson on Japan’s technoculture
Gibson zeroes in on the Japanese womblesque tendency to deconstruct technology and reassemble subcultures around it
“The Japanese are the ultimate Early Adaptors, and the sort of fiction
I write behoves me to pay serious heed to that. If you believe, as I
do, that all cultural change is essentially technologically driven, you
pay attention to the Japanese.”
Constraints and creativity: text message poems
Matt Locke is part of the
project/competition team that have launched a text-message poetry
competition in The Guardian. In this introductory article, Andrew Wilson makes some lovely telling points about what the medium and it’s usage inspire…
“…text messages let us think about our reply, choose our words
carefully. They let us try to say something clever or cool, use written
words to strike a pose or have a calculated effect. Then the message
gets sent, the words bounce around in the ether, and at the other end
someone tries to work out what it means: do we really fancy them, or
are we just being friendly? That gap between what we think our words
mean, what we try to make them say, and what they say for themselves,
is poetry.”
and
“Text messages are short, so the subject has to be
tackled in a way that will fit into 160 characters. There isn’t space
to tell much of a story. A text message poem has to find one truthful
moment and describe it, whether it’s seeing the red moon during the
lunar eclipse – or not seeing it becaue it was cloudy; the way everyone
stands up at once during a football match; a child asleep in the back
of the car on the way home from a holiday. Ezra Pound called it the
luminous detail. Find it, show it and let it speak for itself.”
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