Simple concept (!) I wanted to give a URL to. One thousand or more nodes in a mesh or other network Each node has: One terabyte or more of disk One gigabyte or more of ram On gigahertz or more of processor Nodes are scattered through a contiguous geography like a city Conceptually, Petascale Urban [...]
Read more →(hit play, and read on) Marmaduke Dando’s back… if you help! Marmaduke Dando is a good friend and a great musician. He is recording a new album, and he’s crowdfunding it because, well, this is 2013 and that’s how great, quirky musicians make second albums. His first album, Heathcliffian Surly, is a damn fine piece [...]
Read more →I got an interesting write up on the unemployment / mechanization / income angle from my friend Nathan Koren (he does collaborative futures with Noah Raford at Futurescaper). Nathan’s basic argument is that Ford’s innovation of “make a car your workers can afford” has now been displaced with “race to the bottom” feedback loops in manufacturing, [...]
Read more →Google, Facebook and all the rest make most of their money advertising. The more they know about you and your behavior, the more accurately they can forecast which adverts will change your behavior, and the more they can make being paid to alter your behavior – on somebody else’s behalf. Advertising is a control game, [...]
Read more →Although I spend a lot of time feeling powerless, I have more undivided, informed, concentrated attention on the affairs of the world than almost anybody. Because I’m self-funded (i.e. usually broke) and self-directed, I get to set my own agendas. There are very few actors with this kind of freedom. It also means that I [...]
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