Links tagged with “mattjones”
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Open Lecture at CIID: “Keeping up with the Kardashevians” – Petafloptimism
Matt Jones on stuff done at BERG and Google, and our anti-anti-utopian future. (Video plus slides & transcript.)
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Station Identification – Petafloptimism
A good turn of the wheel for the brain from Kim Stanley Robinson: “one must be anti-anti-utopian”.
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Look for the Lungfish
Some great paragraphs from a good post by Charlie Stross about questioning all assumptions when imagining what our future is like.
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W. Brian Arthur vs Silicon Roundabout, ‘Start-Up Britain’ and other shake-and-bake approaches « Magical Nihilism
Matt Jones on how you can’t just conjure an area like Shoreditch out of thin air and tax incentives. These things — locations, industries, technologies — take time and long-term ideas.
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The Demon-Haunted World
Matt Jones’ thought-provoking presentation on urbanisation and digitalisation: practical city magic. Great stuff.
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Extenuating Circumstances – SXSW 2008: Creative Collaboration: Building Web Apps Together
Good notes on a SXSW panel. I wonder where I’d fit in, but also wonder why I’m doing all this theatre nonsense when reading stuff like this makes me so excited.
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Flickr: Tags in the Fiona and Matt’s Wedding Pool
Flickr keeps finding new ways to tickle my