In his Knight-Mozilla Learning Lab “How to prototype and influence people” lecture, Aza Raskin said “to design is to inspire participation” and one of the problem in inspiring participation is the communication bandwidth.
It is interesting to observe that the bandwidth expansion is a byproduct of reducing ambiguity. Continue reading →
I’m running the next P2PU ‘Introduction in Cyberpunk’ course. One of the aspects I’ll be focusing on is the blending between near-future and present, and between fiction and reality.
I found this endorsement on twitter by Lt. Worf to be in this spirit.
The alarm clock projected its cardioid waking field over the bed. The substance of his dream started to fade away and crisp reality was pouring in…
“Damn it, not again, not when I’m dreaming of her” he shouted, kicking away the clock’s antenna towards the wall. He closed his eyes, she was still there: soft and warm, sleeping in his arms and slowly fading away.
He opened his eyes — she was gone. Continue reading →