Category: Future Design
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Far Out Ideas for the Car of the Future
Here are videos of my talk, “The Car of the Future,” at Transmediale Berlin 2010. Definitely some “crazy” ideas about shapeshifting and Virtual Reality. But as the last two videos show, some audience members agreed with me and took the ideas even further!
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Review of My Book “Transdisciplinary Design”
By Giorgio Cipolletta. The review originally appeared at Noemalab.eu.
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Review of My Book “The Software of the Future”
By Florian Arnold. The review originally appeared in the Vilem Flusser Archive at the University of the Arts, Berlin.
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The City of the Future, the Smart Home of the Future
In addition to the structural consciousness of the smart home, activated by my functional consciousness, there can be the creative, phantasmal consciousness, given free play by my sensory imagination and expressed and merged with flexible phantasmal media applications.
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Methodology – Thirty Minute Statement at my Ph.D. Oral Defense
I will begin with some autobiographical remarks. I have a double educational background in the humanities and natural sciences. I studied the former at Cornell University and the latter at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Later in life, I worked for twenty years as a software developer. I had earlier studied literature and philosophy.
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Biosphere 2: The Artificial Paradise of Nature
Biosphere 2 is the enclosed artificial simulation of a natural environment in the Arizona desert. According to Baudrillard, it is the desperate project of a desperate humanity faced with its own extinction, the mania to create an artificial paradise of so-called nature and so-called reality, given that both of those nostalgic referents have already disappeared.