May 2011
1 post
ACQUIRED TASTES AND THE FOG OF SOCIETY
So let’s talk about ideas.
Every day I see hundreds of entries from various design related websites and blogs. I supersaturate my mind with imagery of design from the web. Someone asked me the other day how I keep up with so many and the answer is simple. I don’t. I can move quickly through dense mass of posts and zoom to the ones I like and move past those I don’t because I’m not looking...
March 2010
2 posts
Dhaka
I got back from an eleven day trip journey to Bangladesh and India on Monday night. It was an intense experience for me and my first real trip out of the country. I’m not sure what many people think of when they here the term “Third World” but it should almost certainly be the city of Dhaka. The city has a population density second only to Beijing and an unofficial...
Side Bar: Progress.
http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/fxmctt3GCgs/engineers-solve-80+year-old-puzzle-to-make-computer-modeling-100000-times-faster
50 Years ago it took 100 massive supercomputers to equal the computing power of the human brain. Currently it takes only 10.
February 2010
4 posts
aswartzell: wireless possibilities. →
Is amazing really. He was talking about wireless power and image transmission in 1900 and the closest his peers could get was radio. If not for lack of funding he might have done it too. To quote that NY Times article referring to why Tesla’s only major contributer J.P. Morgan pulled his funding;
“Margaret Cheney, a Tesla biographer, observed that Tesla had seriously misjudged...
Sidebar: Physical Digital Network
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527461.300-unplugged-goodbye-cables-hello-energy-beams.html?full=true
Thought this was pretty interesting. The creation of a new type of network seems possible in the near future. Nikola would be proud. Too bad this is about a century too late.
(Efficiency is an issue)
The Flux of the Internet
(Increasing Entropy)
flux; noun:
1 : a flowing of fluid from the body
2 : a continuous moving on or passing by (as of a stream) 3 : a continued flow : flood 4 a : influx b : change, fluctuation <in a state of flux> 5 : a substance used to promote fusion (as of metals or minerals); especially : one (as rosin) applied to surfaces to be joined by soldering, brazing, or welding to clean and...
Witchcraft and Other Such Sorcery
(“The Baptism of Christ” Aert de Gelder, 1710)
Imagine yourself in Rome in the 15th century. The church is absolute, (or is it?) the best artists (whom so happen to also be the best scientists, a term that doesn’t exist yet) are gathering in Rome, called to provide some decorative touch to the Vatican, though some are secretly supplanting its power with hidden information in...