The (Most) Nabobist

The following apart from being visually stunning is a video that "simulates typical video editing effects." But it mirrors something I've been considering, that these digital tools such as video editing are making their way into the actual media of our person communications. Editing is as much a tool as exclamation or parenthesis. And very nearly it will be just as ubiquitous, see Youtube Remixer

Via the fantastic, Information Aesthetics blog

Is New York merely metropolitan, out as the defacto torchbearer? Enter cosmo-London.

The artist formerly known as Renetto muses on the larger implications of Youtube and the like, link.

A message from Douglas Hofstadter

A growing number of highly respected technological figures, including Ray Kurzweil and Hans Moravec, have in recent years forecast that computational intelligence will, in the coming two or three decades, not only match but swiftly surpass human intelligence, and that civilization will at that point be radically transformed in ways that our puny minds cannot possibly imagine. This bold hypothesis, now often called “The Singularity,” strikes some as wonderful and strikes others as abhorrent. But whether it is wonderful or abhorrent, is the singularity scenario even remotely plausible, or is it just science fiction? If the singularity scenario is plausible, is the time frame proposed ridiculous or realistic?

To any thoughtful person, the singularity idea, even if it seems wild, raises a gigantic, swirling cloud of profound and vital questions about humanity and the powerful technologies it is producing. Given this mysterious and rapidly approaching cloud, there can be no doubt that the time has come for the scientific and technological community to seriously try to figure out what is on humanity’s collective horizon. Not to do so would be hugely irresponsible.

He, with other luminaries, will be on display soon at Singluarity Summit. Nobody gets around like that Cory Doctorow…

Counter as in contrary wherein one opens an underground restaurant and iterates "family style" to the n boundary. The name is Hebberoy(sort of), the place is Portland.

Theater - city block

TV - living room

Computer - lap

It was once true that people gathered to watch, first in the darkened caverns of the theater with its velvet festoons. Cinema paradiso, et al. These moving images were projected onto massive screens that swallowed a hundred eyeballs at a time. And if you were to analyze each divisible second you found a frame made up of chemically etched forms each as recognisable as the next. But it scaled and we shared it all even with the frequent coughs. TV…