Random theory on a quiet and rainy Saturday afternoon in the city. Privacy exists only in the eye of the beholder and is more prevalent and easier to engineer than ever before. It’s all a question of audience. I’ll explain. The new standard in our ways of communicating (especially in the geekdom) is to publicly… Continue reading On privacy
Category: Thoughts
About cities: future of cities workshop at LIFT
Some strange and loose notes taken during the workshop organised by Daniel Kaplan from FING and from Anne Galloway and Dan Hill‘s talk at LIFT 09. – Things we ask of cities include: – Make us safe – Make us meet – Make us green – Make us equal Maybe cities are a state of… Continue reading About cities: future of cities workshop at LIFT
More than this: or why I've decided to stop using Twitter
Following from what was a weepy post a week ago, I’ve decided to stop using Twitter once I reach 2000 updates (about 150 to go). I remember the evening I started using it, sometime in November 2006 when I was staying at Ben’s on Herengracht in Amsterdam. He sent me an invite and I looked… Continue reading More than this: or why I've decided to stop using Twitter
To those young blessed souls
I’ve been invited to lead a sort of online discussion for the near-graduation 4th year students of the BA in Industrial design in Montreal. I was in their position in 2004 which seems like so ages ago and I remember the feeling. I felt like I was sortof on the brink of an abyss, the… Continue reading To those young blessed souls
Speculative modeling response: 2 conversations
Russell Davies had the lovely idea of proposing a project around speculative modeling with the Lyddle End series. I received a Lock Side Stores. This is my response in the form of imagery and conversations taking place in 2050. 1. An afternoon at the Science Museum – So this is it? – Yeh – ….… Continue reading Speculative modeling response: 2 conversations
The problem with starting a company
Is that you forget to build an actual circle of friends around you. Friends that you can get a drink with after work, friends who want to have coffee with you on weekends. I want friends to have a chat with. Twitter isn’t friends. Facebook isn’t friends. Flickr isn’t friends. After nearly 2 years in… Continue reading The problem with starting a company
2009 resolutions
I don’t like chocolate that much anymore and I’ve already promised myself to do more exercise, so all there’s left to commit to are a loose collection of interests I’d like to pursue in the coming year: – Find out what’s behind the current trend of doomsday scenarios for the future..is it only a byproduct… Continue reading 2009 resolutions
So true
This is a total re-blog from Patrick but I just couldn’t resist.
RIP Douglas Keen
A little sadness on this rainy Sunday in London. I opened yesterday’s Guardian to find that Douglas Keen had died. I didn’t know him personally nor did I even know his name, but his work is a key part of my childhood. He was the one to teach me english, or to be perfectly accurate… Continue reading RIP Douglas Keen
The dusty corners of the Internet
I’m curious about the various time-trapped bits of the internet these days such as Barack Obama’s Twitter feed, abandoned land and marketing exercises in Second Life and blogs that people no longer write in. All eyes in one direction for 15 minutes or 6 months, then onto something else. Are these the abandoned memories, newspapers,… Continue reading The dusty corners of the Internet