Wevolve

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Proposed term: ‘soylent infrastructure’; made predominantly from (hidden, concealed) people.

Twitter / justinpickard (via new-aesthetic)

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Cyberpunk ponchos let you hide in the glitched-out future

Do you want to live through the digital apocalypse in style? Timefly has put together a series of futuristic ponchos that place heavily digital designs onto physical canvases. They’re modern camouflage for a cyberpunk punk world — one in which geometric patterns and eerily smooth CG could help you to blend into a metropolis of blinking TVs and glitched out displays. Timefly launched late last year and has been adding works by different digital artists ever since then — a spread of its entire fashion line is below. 

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HBD! Wevolve, which started as a boutique research and consultancy lab in New York in 2009, turned full four years today.

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We live in a time of loops, The Animated GIF Era, and tightly coupled systems, where weather data causes cascading effects inside algorithmic trading computers, which send corn prices spiraling up, driving changes in farmers' GPS-guided tractors.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/12/07/dance-as-algorithm-what-happens-when-an-animated-gif-springs-to-life/260336/

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Will blinking blue lights of servers soon fill the aisles that previously offered the Blue Light Special? Sears Holdings has formed a new unit to market space from former Sears and Kmart retail stores as a home for data centers, disaster recovery space and wireless towers. With the creation of Ubiquity Critical Environments, Sears hopes to convert the retail icons of the 20th century into the Internet infrastructure to power the 21st century digital economy. Sears Holdings has one of the largest real estate portfolios in the country, with 3,200 properties spanning 25 million square feet of space. That includes dozens of Sears and Kmart stores that have been closed over the years.

With Ubiquity, Sears is Turning Shuttered Stores into Data Centers » Data Center Knowledge (via new-aesthetic)

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Co-designing the design brief

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Cut & Fold

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And the DRM Chair. Archetypical digital nuisance brought to the physical realm. 

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Pay & Sit / The Private Bench

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Acclaimed science-fiction writer Bruce Sterling will again deliver the Closing Remarks at SXSW Interactive. Sterling's state-of-the-industry, state-of-the-world rants are one of the true highlights of the event, so don't miss the 2013 version (vision).

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East German personal computers on parade, 1987

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As this is a documentary, the story is crucial. ... Taking a generative approach to storytelling runs the risk of producing sequences that feel disjointed or repetitive. Applying knowledge from natural language processing and recommendation software in conjunction with exhaustive tagging of our content, we can craft a system to customize the experience based on your current interests, leading you to encounter content that personally resonates.

How algorithmic generative approach for delivering a coherent experience seems to be a lot similar to open and co-creative generative approach. Caption from the Clouds documentary project  

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Priceless look at the emerging tensions of digital culture.

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Playin' with the service design canvas.

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Innovation potential = The social situation X the technological situation.

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“It’s not just Angry Birds, Twitter, and email anymore,” he says. “Technology should serve the human need to create.” If FiftyThree’s success is any indication, that’s exactly the direction we’re heading in. (via Six months of Paper: sketching the future of app startups | The Verge)