Retrofuturism i teknikjättarnas arkitektur
”Why are Google and Apple spending billions to build offices that look lifted straight from the 1960s?” Läsvärt i NY Times om digitala erans rötter i – och svårigheter att frigöra sig från – den alternativa 60-talskulturen: Google and Apple: the High-Tech Hippies of Silicon Valley (28 mars 2016) ”Well after the orchards of Northern […]
Peak robot?
”Given our current obsession with the possibility of an economic or even existential robot apocalypse, the news this week that Google is backing away from its aggressive robotics program has received surprisingly little attention. I’m wondering if the company’s retreat might be a signal that, for the moment, we’ve hit peak robot.” Nicholas Carr: Peak […]
Wassailing: låt oss sjunga för äppelträden!
Oh apple tree, we wassail thee and hope that thou will bear, for the Lord doth know where we shall be when apple comes another year. So to bear well and to fruit well merry let us be! Let everyone take of their hats and cry ”health!” to the old apple tree! Här är något […]
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