technology
Ada Lovelace Day: Donna Haraway
Today is Ada Lovelace day, a day to celebrate the achievements of women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths. As a former mathematician and a bit of a geek, I remember feeling both surprised and pleased when at eleven years old I discovered that the ADA computer language was named after the first computer scientist …
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Physicality & Power
Over on Wired, Amber Case sets out to illuminate the brave new world of calm computing. The idea being – as Mark Weiser puts it – that it appears when when it needs to be used, and gets out of the way when it isnt, suggesting an ever present techological field attuned and pre-empting our …
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How we will see the past in the future
I saw a really interesting bit of technology at the SLF in September – using a Sony PSP with a gocam, small matrices could be used to create augmented reality displays using a system called Second Sight.
In the future, the past wont be so far away.
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Literacy in a new era
Thinking a little bit on Post Literacy and looking at what it means to be literate in todays society – one way of relating post literacy and digital literacy is to look at literacy as a property not of a person but of a social environment.
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