Joi Ito on Openness and the Media Lab
Joi Ito follows César Hidalgo’s talk on knowledge networks to offer thoughts on how networked knowledge is transforming the lab. When he accepted the job… Read More »Joi Ito on Openness and the Media Lab
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César Hidalgo on personbytes and knowledge networks
It’s sponsor week at the Media Lab, the semi-annual “open house” where Media Lab students and researchers share their work with the foundation and corporate… Read More »César Hidalgo on personbytes and knowledge networks
Ramesh Srinivasan on Digital Diversity at Center for Civic Media
Ramesh Srinivasan is a designer who’s found himself pulled into cultural anthropology by his fascination with “digital diversity”. Some of the lessons he’s learned from… Read More »Ramesh Srinivasan on Digital Diversity at Center for Civic Media
Former purveyor of discarded paradigms, at your service.
Designer Richard Vijgen has posted a lovely and ambitious visualization of a data set that has special personal meaning for me: 650 gigabytes which represent… Read More »Former purveyor of discarded paradigms, at your service.
Why watch Zambia?
Zambia held presidential elections this week, a contest that’s had interesting implications beyond the borders of that southern African nation. When I speak about international… Read More »Why watch Zambia?
I see what you’re thinking…
“Dreams seen by a man-made machine How does it seem, how does it seem That we can see each others dreams” – CAN, “Last Night’s… Read More »I see what you’re thinking…