Author: Alan N. Shapiro
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Sketches of the Car of the Future, by Nick Pugh
Here is a sampling of 8 of the 34 sketches made by Nick Pugh for the concept of the Car of the Future as a shapeshifter. All images © Copyright Nick Pugh and Alan N. Shapiro, 2010.
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The Car of the Future is a Virtual Reality Game Platform
Paul Virilio is a French theorist of technology whose work has focused on architecture, art, transportation, war, urban planning, and the cinema. Virilio’s central concept is speed. He is also a theorist of accidents and crashes.
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The Car of the Future is a Shapeshifter, by Nick Pugh
Like Odo in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the Car of the Future is a shapeshifter. ‘Space is the final frontier’ and that is true on earth as well. Real estate is fundamentally limited by the surface area of the planet. More of it is not currently in production.
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A Critique of the Idea of Neutral Language, by Marc Silver
In Arguing the Case, Marc Silver shifts the ground in original ways. He is not content to “deconstruct” the discourse founding the disciplines he studies – political, legal, scientific, literary, and psychoanalytic. He reveals the rhetorical, logical and philosophical rules as well as the paradoxes and aporias, which sustain the disciplines he illuminates.
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Towards a New Computer Science: Instantiate a Much Richer Software Instance
In this group of 5 coding projects, the core operations of the Limerick Metric will be developed. Where does the New Computer Science stand in relation to the prevailing software development paradigm of Object-Orientation (UML, C++, Java, etc.) ? The New Computer Science both respects and radicalizes Object-Orientation.