Paddy Ashdown: The Global Power Shift (TED)
A great talk on the shifting world by a distinguished and engaging speaker, Paddy Ashdown. “I believe we are condemned, if you like, to live at just one of those moments in history when the gimbals...
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What I’m Up To
I haven’t been blogging much lately and, in lieu of an actual article, here’s an overview of where my time & energy have been… I’ve started a new job in an engineering group at a Fortune 500...
View ArticleExtended Senses & Invisible Fences – Vid of My ARE2012 Talk
Extended Senses & Invisible Fences – Chris Arkenberg ARE2012 from chris 23 on Vimeo. A 15min presentation on the emerging ubicomp interface of the urban landscape Also, here’s the full slide deck.
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extended senses & invisible fences
“The intelligence of the city is on the streets.“ – Manu Fernandez Amidst the swirling maelstrom of technological progress so often heralded as the imminent salvation to all our ills, it can be...
View Article“insight, perspicacity, lyrical beauty and complete hogwash
I just have to share this wonderful blurb from Bruce Sterling about my article, Extended Senses & Invisible Fences: *Y’know, it’s crazy-making to read stuff like this. It’s so full of insight,...
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weak signals in 3d print disruption
Peter Thiel’s foundation gives $350,000 to back Modern Meadow’s efforts to create bioprinted meats. An engineer prints a working lower receiver for an AR-15 using a 15-year old Stratasys printer. A...
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inside scoop – interviewing the santa cruz city council candidates
Last night I was on a panel of 3 with Peggy Dolgenos and Cliff Hodges interviewing our local candidates for Santa Cruz City Council. I represented the Santa Cruz Geeks, one of the event sponsors along...
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transcription errors in reality copy – ios6
Apple recently booted Google Maps from its iOS 6 release, replacing the world standard for mapping & location with its own offering (having cobbled together the acquisition spoils from C3...
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Election 2012: Stories and Statistics
When the 2012 election returns came in there was no more tragic and revealing figure than Karl Rove. His live reaction in the Fox newsroom after the network called Ohio for the Democratic incumbent...
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Recent Notes on Reality Capture & 3D Printing
It may be symptomatic of our times but the delta between weak signal & fast-moving trend seems to be getting shorter & shorter. Compelling innovations are bootstrapped rapidly into...
View ArticleVirtual Hitmen Hired To Curb Son’s Gaming Addiction
From China, this article tickles my sic-fi bone in just the right way. It’s one of those news bits that seems enfolded out of the future just to remind us how odd and accelerated we are in the present....
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Running With Machine Herds
Continuing its annual tradition of walking the lines between genuine social goodyness and highfalutin’ techno utopianism, the TED2013 conference kicked off this week in Los Angeles. Gathering together...
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Future Thinking – Co.Exist
I have a new article up on FastCo.Exist provocatively titled “Future thinking isn’t about the future, it’s about the present”. Of course, it’s about both but editors do like to grab attention with...
View ArticleMy new music: Godspeed by Harry Selassie
My new track – the first in an e.p. to be released over several weeks. Hip hop space dub. Dub Chamber EP by Harry Selassie
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Ourselves in the Othernets
So dig: in about 20 years we went from knowing rather little about the world beyond what we directly experienced and what we gleaned through books and pictures and the occasional documentary or...
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Coherency in Contradiction
Coherency in Contradiction is the main research project I’ve been working on as a Research Fellow at the Deloitte Center for the Edge as part of the 2013 Shift Index. It’s just been published at...
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Cybernetic jurisdictions and the Things of Internets
Walled gardens are jurisdictions that exercise control over behaviors. Facebook determines what constitutes acceptable speech. Apple determines what applications are fit for public consumption. Google...
View ArticleHow quickly the future becomes the present
When I pause and consider it, this is a truly astounding artifact from the future – the future of, like, 1990. But it’s real. i find this to be a rather astounding statement about the times in which we...
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Algorithms are smart but they’re nowhere near intelligent
Image from iRobot. Watson is basically a text search algorithm connected to a database just like Google search. It doesn’t understand what it’s reading. In fact, “read” is the wrong word. It’s not...
View ArticleThe State and its detractors – plutocrats, insurgents, and algorithms
Two important (IMHO) reads from the past week… Evgeny Morozov, who tends to really grate on me with his overly-generalized, ad hominen attacks, reminds us of his brilliance in spite of himself in this...
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