Source: WIRED The Robotic Musicianship Group at Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology just...

http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/Media/mediaimages/zooms/ssc2008-11a/index.html cheers, sebastian

This is a comment that grew too long - a continuation of the polylogue following Xárene's post, Social Networking Tools and Our Future Society It got me thinking about two experiences I've had recently. Love The first one involved someone that I met who had just moved to Europe 20 days before from New York. He moved here to be with his...

For the past few days on an internet forum, I've been discussing how government would be structured if I could erase all the boundaries and current government structures and start from scratch. I started with the idea that more power should be given to local governments and we should be moving towards the opposite direction of a globalized...

Good afternoon. This is my first post here at the space collective and I wish you all a warm...

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In process towards my end presentation for my Progress & Innovation class I've been sketching some more ideas about Mozilla. This first one is all about the current browser war and their progress towards the imminent "Web 3.0" like the world of Aurora and other next-gen internet internet ideas. Internet Exploder is a bit...

I have been reading with great interest and pleasure Rene's latest post bringing forth with...

In the chapter titled Author as Producer of Walter Benjamin's Reflections, he introduces Sergei Tretiakov's 'operating writer', and how his/her mission, as opposed to the 'informing writer', is "not to report but to struggle; not to play the spectator but to intervene actively". This description is of the author not as activist--because...

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