#fountainforlondon aiming to bring back public water fountains in London. To reduce plastic and to make water easily available for everyone. They said it costs around 0.01p for a litre of water, so the markup for bottled water is astonishing.
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Augmented reality virtual nuns. Great fun on a Sunday. The Transubstantiation of Knowledge / DoubleMe exhibit at the V & A, pretty wild. I think it’s a HoloLens.
I feel like you could fairly easily replace ‘Amazon’ with ‘Skynet’ and most of the patents would still be applicable.
One of the more troubling patents (and they’re all reasonably troubling): A Patent to Monitor Workers Using High Resolution Video.
The Institute of Patent infringement. A tour through some of Amazon’s weird and somewhat dystopian patents.
Enjoying the London Design Festival this weekend. I like design, although I prefer that which is applied to social purposes, not so much the purely aesthetic or the luxurious. The Creative Unions exhibition at Central St Martins is a little bit more political, and the PlasticScene is about creative uses of waste plastic.
Tapestry made from old hiking boot laces. Part of the PlasticScene exhibition at King’s Cross gasholders.
Coming across plenty of good tracks on resonate. Shame you can’t create playlists (yet?). Would be a good way of getting the word out about the artists and the platform.
I’m looking forward to the (re?)development of a universal but distributed set of systems and protocols that lets me find and communicate with peers and friends, without me needing to ‘be’ on any particular platform or to invest into any particular medium.
I like communities but I don’t particularly like platforms, as the medium too often dictates the message and the way of being. To edit a thought because it doesn’t fit into a database, and to lose a friend, in a cyber space with no geography, because they moved to another neighbourhood, well that’s a strange thing.
I just wanna exchange information, man. I don’t want an account.
Watching Century of the Self, first time I have heard of the Kent State shootings. Astonishing – the US state firing on an unarmed student protest. According to the documentary, it had a suffocating effect on the protest movement.