The Creativity Code - Art and Innovation in the Age of AI - book by @MarcusduSautoy :
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674988132
The Creativity Code - Art and Innovation in the Age of AI - book by @MarcusduSautoy :
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674988132
Paul Mason: “Information technology is going to erode the need for work”:
http://lab.cccb.org/en/paul-mason-information-technology-is-going-to-erode-the-need-for-work/
#Technology #Economics #Politics #Automation #OpenSource #P2P
Microsoft will soon be shipping a Linux kernel with Windows: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/announcing-wsl-2/
Headlines from Google IO in a parallel dimension:
Open Streets are programs that temporarily open streets to people by closing them to cars:
https://openstreetsproject.org/ #OpenSource #Urban #Infrastructure #Politics
People Are Clamoring to Buy Old Insulin Pumps - How an obsolete medical device with a security flaw became a must-have for some patients with type 1 diabetes:
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/04/looping-created-insulin-pump-underground-market/588091/
OpenAPS - Open Artificial Pancreas System project is an open and transparent effort to make safe and effective basic Artificial Pancreas System (APS) technology widely available to more quickly improve and save as many lives as possible and reduce the burden of Type 1 diabetes: https://openaps.org/ #OpenSource #P2P #Health
It’s time to pay attention to the $15 trillion business of growing old:
https://www.fastcompany.com/90341269/its-time-to-pay-attention-to-the-15-trillion-business-of-growing-old #HCI #Culture #Business
We can now speak the universal language of honey bees Researchers have deciphered and codified the honey bee language: https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/stories/we-can-now-speak-universal-language-honey-bees https://phys.org/news/2019-03-decipher-codify-universal-language-honey.html #FFHCI #Regenerative #Biology
"Back to the Future in Urban Design" - talk by @colvilleandersn at republica 19:
"In London, scientists are testing the “BioSolar Leaf”, which uses carbon-hungry organisms to help clean the air better than trees can–all while providing an excellent source of protein":
https://www.fastcompany.com/90342084/these-biosolar-panels-suck-co2-from-the-air-to-grow-edible-algae #Regenerative #Infrastructure
"The Urgent Need for Christian Transhumanism" - by Micah Redding
Using Machine Learning for RTM ("Reality Tunnel Management") is a great opportunity ("show me how cities look like without cars" etc) but even greater challenge ("I'm so deeply invested in virtual reality, i don't care about climate change etc). The sirens from Greek mythology.
"First attempt at removing cars off the roads with neural nets":
https://twitter.com/otduet/status/1125390364691640321
Water is source and destiny. The human (85% water flesh bag) relation with water sources is sacred & needs to be declared as such. It is the defining topic of ancient times and imminent futures.
Silicon Valley only works cause it leverages OpenSource Code (Linux etc), OpenAccess Science (Arxiv etc) & OpenPlatform Labour (Uber etc.). Yet, it then predominantly breaks the virtuous open cycle & siphons off the value generated by the commons to capitalist billionaires. Why?
"The Restart Project helps people learn how to repair their broken electronics, and rethink how they consume them in the first place": https://therestartproject.org/
5 Types of Terrible Drivers: A Dossier from a 1955 Driver’s Ed Manual: https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/5-types-of-terrible-drivers-a-dossier-from-a-1955-drivers-ed-manual/ #Technology #Augmentation #Urban
"Guidelines for Human-AI Interaction" - by Saleema Amershi et.al: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/guidelines-for-human-ai-interaction/ https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2019/03/AI_Guidelines_Poster_PrintQuality.pdf
"Peer to Peer - The Commons Manifesto" - book by @mbauwens, Vasilis Kostakis, Alex Pazaitis: https://www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk/site/books/10.16997/book33/ http://commonstransition.org/peer-to-peer-a-commons-manifesto/
#P2P #OpenSource #Politics #Economics