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ZENetic Computer ~ Cultural Computing:
ZENetic is an interface that evokes self-awakening through essential aspects of Zen Buddhist culture. Through esoteric riddles, ZENetic teases particular cognitive responses from users, as reflections of their inner, subliminal consciousness. With stories portrayed in ink painting, haiku, and kimono, ZENetic conveys the rich allegorical interaction characteristic of Eastern philosophy. ZENetic Computer was presented during Siggraph 2004.:
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Philosopher of nothingness: From ZEN Buddhism made Japanese philosophy:
KYOTO UNIVERSITY OPENCOURSEWARE:
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Concept of the day: "Energy Return on Energy Invested" (EROEI) e.g. due to a range of factors, the EROEI of fracking is rapidly going negative, making it uneconomical. As water prices increase due to climate change, the EROEI of nuclear is becoming critical. Etc.
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A day with Satish Kumar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satish_Kumar
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"Fault-Tolerant Design: An introduction" - Book by Elena Dubrova: https://pld.ttu.ee/IAF0530/draft.pdf #Design
If anything can go wrong, it will. —Murphy’s law
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Many technocrats say the energy demand of human civilisation is bound to triple in the next 100 years. This is a failure of imagination, as the premiss (extrapolating the energy consumption anomaly which has been the past 100y) is missing climate change realities.
In a nutshell: Energy consumption will come down substantially, forced by the dynamics of catastrophic climate change: Many supply-chains will collapse & with it consumerism, planned obsolescence etc. will crash (signs visible today). Resulting shift to "circular economy" at scale will heavily reduce energy need. -
Suspend Your Disbelief (or, how to ruin everything in 7 steps)
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Project Zanzibar: "A Portable and Flexible Tangible Interaction Platform": https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/project-zanzibar/
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"Code Now. Pay Tuition Later. Coding schools are offering free classes in exchange for a percentage of future income. But at what cost?" - @lindsaygellman reports: https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/06/an-alternative-to-student-loan-debt/563093/ via @nikete #Economics
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"Ecodesign, Ecolabels and the Environment: How Europe is redesigning our footprint on earth" - by @prepaid_africa: http://nitibhan.com/2018/06/04/ecodesign-ecolabels-and-the-environment-how-europe-is-redesigning-our-footprint-on-earth/ Written in 2007. How far have we come? #Regenerative
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"Procedural Level Generation in Sure Footing" - 20min overview of techniques and ideas behind building procedural games level generation systems, scale difficulty, manage AI enemies etc. by @AIandGames @GET_TUDA_CHOPPA
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Ellen MacArthur - Learning & The Circular Economy
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IKEA's Jesper Brodin & Marcus Engman on the start of the new African collaboration:
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A Flow of Wealth or a Wealth of Flows?
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Wangari Maathai & The Green Belt Movement:
