We’ve all thought about the future and about how society and technology will progress in some way. Some of us even habour predictions or fears and work towards either facilitating their actuation or ensuring they don’t. A website, Long Bets, allows people to put their foresight and analysis to the test by placing a bet … Read moreBanking on the Future
I attended an English Department Posgraduate Seminar last Friday to check out the work of Media and Communications Department PhD student Tom Apperley. His abstract had me intrigued: In this brief paper I try and make sense of a cluster of research around the broad topic of X-box games. This paper reconciles two threads of … Read moreAnother Transmedia Researcher
We’ve seen Extreme Sports and even Extreme Ironing but now we have Extreme Email. Jonah Brucker-Cohen has come up with an idea to study how software, specifically email list software, affects human interaction. BumpList only allows for a maximum amount of subscribers so that when a new person subscribes, the first person to subscribe is … Read moreExtreme Email
On the subject of installation in the new media ecology (see Tate Gallery post) I found the FurtherField studio interesting. The FurtherField studio website describes itself as: …an exploratory, year long project, set up to create online, real-time, net art residencies with three UK-based artists. Each residency lasts for 3 months, during which time the … Read moreChatroom Conferences
FL@33 have a site work called Bzzzpeek, which has sound bites of animals and automobiles in over 17 languages. This project focuses on the pronunciation and comparison of these sounds by presenting them side by side as each language expresses them differently.
Tales of the Future Past is a website, created by David Szondy, of magazine covers from mainly the 1970s detailing sci-fi visions of the future. A new section, Future Robots, shows some great pics of dorky robots. So, whatever we come up with now will look just a ridiculous in the future. If not already.