December 2010
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Our lives have been turned inside out by a digital world of our own spinning
– Ron Diebert, NY TIMES
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November 2010
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'Fourth generation' Internet arrives in Hong Kong...
smartercities:
The latest generation of wireless Internet that will allow people to watch a crystal clear movie or live sporting event on the street or atop a hill is being deployed throughout Hong Kong. The Long Term Evolution (LTE) network will give super high speeds across the city and could mean the end of computers ever needing to be plugged into a wall for a connection to the net.
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May 2010
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Corporations are neither physical nor metaphysical phenomena. They are...
– Buckminster Fuller
I Make, therefore, I Am.
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April 2010
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The more digital; the less virtual and more material a given activity becomes.
– Bruno Latour
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The urban is, therefore, pure form; a place of encounter, assembly,...
– Henri Lefebvre (via shriyashriyashriya) (via wildcat2030)
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It [digitization] is a question of substituting of the signs of the real for the...
– Jean Bauldriard, Simulacra and Simulation [and SPIME]
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For the first time in history the navigator can completely rely on technology...
– Aporta & Higgs (2005) Satellite Culture… Current Anthropology. 46: 5. p. 744
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March 2010
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we’ve gone from “you’ve got mail…” to “you...
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The term ‘embedded’ cannot escape the echoes of Pentagon...
– Simon Penny, Trying to be Calm: Ubiquity, Cognitivism and Embodiment.
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Cognitive activity is sometimes situated in the material world in such a way...
– Edwin Hutchins
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In network theory, a node’s relationship to other networks is more important...
– Eurozine - The meaning of network culture - Kazys Varnelis “The network is urging us to embrace a new kind of awareness, like that of the Navajo and other Native Americans, who “instead of trying to emphasize their individuality and independence, … find identity and fulfillment in their vast system...
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