• Posts Tagged ‘think’

woolichooks:

I decided to play around with Processing. I downloaded the program a couple of years ago, but didn’t do anything with it. Now, I’m going through the tutorials and examples so that I can eventually create something. This is a screenshot of my first creation.

I decided to play around with Processing. I downloaded the program a couple of years ago, but didn’t do anything with it. Now, I’m going through the tutorials and examples so that I can eventually create something. This is a screenshot of my first creation.

(via monolithos)

edgur:

vaginafor1000alex:

lovethyhippie:

lost-and-searching-in-america:

Is this a mosquito? No. It’s an insect spy drone for urban areas, already in production, funded by the US Government. It can be remotely controlled and is equipped with a camera and a microphone. It can land on you, and it may have the potential to take a DNA sample or leave RFID tracking nanotechnology on your skin.
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(via emergentfutures)

Busyness serves as a kind of existential reassurance, a hedge against emptiness; obviously your life cannot possibly be silly or trivial or meaningless if you are so busy, completely booked, in demand every hour of the day…. I can’t help but wonder whether all this histrionic exhaustion isn’t a way of covering up the fact that most of what we do doesn’t matter.

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—	The New York Times’ Tim Kreider takes down the ‘busy’ trap (via explore-blog) (via explore-blog)

smarterplanet:

Innovation Excellence | The Rise of Social Innovation

Many different flavors of social collaboration explained in this paper provide an overview of the possible, the probable and the actual from a somewhat theoretical perspective. One interesting take-away: Social Innovation includes two directions, partnerships and revised value chains as well as “user integration” into product design.