*How could that not be good? *Two thirds of it is Italian! https://inactual.bigcartel.com/product/medial-disorders-interpretive-and-non-statistical-compendium-of-technological-disorders

https://nearfuturelaboratory.com/blog/2024/12/cybernetic-serendipity/ …Many of the projects in here (from the late 1960s!) are the kinds of things that we might see today in the context of Design Fiction, speculative design, and the kinds of art+technology practices that are now becoming more common. The catalog is a historical document, a contemporary manifesto, and a guide for the […]

*As Maker new office videos tend to go (very braggy, very look-at-me), this is one of the least new-office videos you would ever see. What gives with the camera work and the virtual backgrounds in this? It’s like everything has been fed through an oscilloscope. *What is “gridfinity”? Well, you can try a new storage […]

*As, perhaps, the only way to commemorate certain props, and the only way that the future will see them.

*I keep an eye on these trades bags, because it’s interesting that they attempt to be comprehensive and specialized at the same time. *It’s also interesting that collector-curator types who assemble “complete” bags seem to need and have four or five quite different “complete” bags. This is clearly related to the “Every Day Carry” enthusiast […]

*It’s a heck of a thing, and can be scrounged up online here and there — a relic of the heyday of the cybernetics boom and the Italian economic miracle. Abstract (in English): A periodical about the theme of electronic calculators and computers applied to moral sciences and literature, subtitled “Le applicazioni dei calcolatori elettronici […]

*An interesting form-factor, especially for travellers. Also, the commentary he gets on his fingernails is of interest. This is a major issue for makers generally: the intrinsic hand damage. It’s like being a professional bicyclist and cracking up every once in a while, no matter how wise and careful you are, or how sleek and […]

https://laricerca.loescher.it/buzzati-e-lintelligenza-artificiale/ (…) Buzzati è un intellettuale curioso e aperto al progresso, ma anche saturnino, e con un profondo senso del tragico: non può evitare di porsi domande che vanno al di là del suo tempo: Arriverà anche il momento in cui il pensiero dell’automa, per la sua stessa immensa complessità, sfuggirà ai nostri comandi e […]

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