Society and technology academic Evgeny Morozov has been researching early 1970s Chilean President Allende’s Project Cybersyn to bring socialism into the computer age under the rubric of ‘the origins of the Big Data nation’. The Socialist Origins of Big Data by Evgeny Morozov, The New Yorker, October 6, 2014 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/13/planning-machine Tim Martin started a discussion …
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Exhibition: Work and Play Behind the Iron Curtain (GRAD Gallery)
A great looking exhibition Work and Play Behind the Iron Curtain at the GRAD: Gallery for Russian Arts and Design in central London
Chairing: Risk/reward discussion for Clerkenwell Design Week
Risk, reward and the new design commissioners Wednesday, 21 May 2014 at 17:00 3rd floor, Farmiloe Building, St John Street, London Renato Preti, founder of Discipline discusses the current stage of European design commissioning and originality, the route to economic recovery and how risk is an essential component to developing markets and stimulating an industry …
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Review: InRealLife documentary sees the life in technology
Seasoned documentary-maker Beeban Kidron’s film InRealLife is an investigation into the relationship of teenagers, digital technology and the Internet, taking as its subjects British teenagers in particular, and Western youth in general. It begins with an extended interview with two teenage boys talking about their use of porn, and how they remember pornographic images when …
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Talk: Urbanism: Creating the future of transport, 2013
Developing on research I was doing with BIG POTATOES on transport futures, I gave a talk entitled ‘Urbanism: Creating the future of transport’ to CreativeMornings LDN (@London_CM), a talk series for people in the Creative Industries which takes place around the globe. The event took place at Camden Collective. The talk is structures around Vehicles, …
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