William Gibson coined the term “cyberspace”, for his 1982 short story Burning Chrome to create a “a narrative engine, and a territory in which the narrative could take place”. Twenty years on, cyberspace is world’s narrative engine: and an uncharted territory to which the world is still coming to terms. Political, industrial, and civic leaders [...]
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Magister Ludi
Stimulating game: great music: oodles of semantic web potential: all in 1 min 22 secs… More about the Glass Bead Network here.
I not robot…
Thanks to Mathew Ingram and David Weinberger, I have just marvelled at these two videos in quick succession, and found myself feeling singuarly unsettled: Big Dog walking: Lego robot solves Rubik’s cube: UPDATE: One month on, and thanks to Marc Andreessen, the feeling isn’t going away: Robot reassembles itself after being kicked apart:
Can computers think? Mapping the great debates
We stand on the shoulders of giants… “…so that we can see more than they, and things at a greater distance, not by virtue of any sharpness of sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size.” Robert Horn is one of my [...]