Tag: Technology
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Global Re-boot | Deep Ecology
The Norwegian government today released the final plans today for the ‘doomsday vault’ that will eventually hold seeds from all known varieties of crops in safe storage in case of ‘nuclear war, asteroid strike or environmental catastrophe’. They’re building it on a remote island near the North Pole. In the event of a burn up…
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On Form(ats) vs Content | The Medium is not (quite) the Message | Analogue and Digital Faith
I had a snoop around the sale items in a department store the other day. A guy in an ill-fitting suit bee-lined me and was desperate to show me the new hard-drive recorders they had in. Tempting, but the prices are crashing and the capacities are inflating, so we’ll hold for a while yet. One…
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The Coffee Pot and The Webcam: Necessity as the Mother of Invention
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As a footnote to a great article about the history of our love for gadgets, the story of how the webcam came to be is told in today’s Independent: "In 1991 the webcam is born as the computer-science department of Cambridge University installs a video camera showing the filter coffee machine in the library’s Trojan…
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Love Thy Neighbour… Wirelessly and for free | iPhones and Social Networking II
Following the previous post about some of the deeper issues behind social networking, and with the much hyped release of Apple’s iPhone, I was struck by this piece on Channel 4 news about free mobile calls on wireless. (It reminded me too about a Wired piece on open-source mobile phones, which is great) It seems…