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We’ve all thought about the future and about how society and technology will progress in some way. Some of us even habour predictions or fears and work towards either facilitating their actuation or ensuring they don’t. A website, Long Bets, allows people to put their foresight and analysis to the test by placing a bet … Read moreBanking on the Future

I attended an English Department Posgraduate Seminar last Friday to check out the work of Media and Communications Department PhD student Tom Apperley. His abstract had me intrigued: In this brief paper I try and make sense of a cluster of research around the broad topic of X-box games. This paper reconciles two threads of … Read moreAnother Transmedia Researcher

We’ve seen Extreme Sports and even Extreme Ironing but now we have Extreme Email. Jonah Brucker-Cohen has come up with an idea to study how software, specifically email list software, affects human interaction. BumpList only allows for a maximum amount of subscribers so that when a new person subscribes, the first person to subscribe is … Read moreExtreme Email

On the subject of installation in the new media ecology (see Tate Gallery post) I found the FurtherField studio interesting. The FurtherField studio website describes itself as: …an exploratory, year long project, set up to create online, real-time, net art residencies with three UK-based artists. Each residency lasts for 3 months, during which time the … Read moreChatroom Conferences

FL@33 have a site work called Bzzzpeek, which has sound bites of animals and automobiles in over 17 languages. This project focuses on the pronunciation and comparison of these sounds by presenting them side by side as each language expresses them differently.

Tales of the Future Past is a website, created by David Szondy, of magazine covers from mainly the 1970s detailing sci-fi visions of the future. A new section, Future Robots, shows some great pics of dorky robots. So, whatever we come up with now will look just a ridiculous in the future. If not already.

The Tate Gallery has sites in Britain, London, Liverpool and St Ives. So, when deciding the location for a new venue there was naturally only one place to go…Space. In order to fulfil their mission to extend access to British and International modern and contemporary art, the Tate Trustees have been considering for some time … Read moreMine Is Bigger + Blurier Than Yours

On the subject of linking (see previous post) I’ve been reading an article, You’ve Got Hypertext by m.c. schraefel, et al. The authors cannily coin the term ‘clinks’ to merge the words ‘clicks-on-links’. I rather like this because I’m sick of typing out ‘I clicked on the link’ for user testing reports.

Had another look through the threads of my brother’s forum and found a funny (not the only funny thing I must say) joke: How many forum members does it take to change a light bulb? The post is of course from somewhere else, and now I’m posting it in my blog, I’ve commented on it, … Read morePost Will Eat Itself

The Information Society Technologies (IST) Working Group on Grand Challenges in the Evolution of the Information Society have released their report. The report, commissioned by the European Commission, intended to ‘identify grand challenges in information and communication technology (ICT), the pursuit of which will stimulate research and development in key areas and help the European … Read moreThe Fictional Future We Plan For