A demographic study within the Nordics of people mobile phone habits, and social ’s media network habits...men and women, boys and girls, from 15 – 55, from all over the Nordic regions, and from all walks of life....
Sometimes, it is hard imagine how powerful and big some events can be. We need to set things in perspective. This is what BBC Dimensions does. It takes important places, events and things, and overlays them onto a map of where you are.
The latest Chris Anderson's article in Wired on the death of web was rather provoking and caused quite a stir.
What always surprise me is the easiness with which we kill things around and present them as useless. Like we discard old clothes, we try to discard the technology. We've already tried to kill radio, TV and print. All three are still living and doing quite good, but the way they are used has changed.
As history shows, technologies evolve and being shaped by people and their needs they can coexist and merge.
There is some pinch of sensationalism in the way of declaring web dead. Alexis Madrigal from Atlantic responded to Anderson's article: "What's Wrong with X is Dead".
"From the vantage point of the present, it may seem that technologies are deterministic. But this view is incorrect, no matter how plausible it may seem. Cultures select and shape technologies, not the other way around, and some societies have rejected or ignored even the gun or the wheel. For millennia, technology has been an essential part of the framework for imagining and moving into the future, but the specific technologies chosen have varied. As the variety of human cultures attests, there have always been multiple possibilities, and there seems no reason to accept a single vision of the future." (David Nye, Technology Matters)
Killing the web seems like the attempt to simplify and feel more in control over the complex and unpredictable world of people behavior and interactions - choosing a single vision for the future. It is tempting to have a single vision, because it is more manageable and controllable but world keeps on evolving into plenty of parallel and intersecting paths.
There is no need to write an epitaph when nobody died.
Mixing politics and religion isn't the best idea. Here is the photo story of a cross honouring the victims of the plane crash that killed the late Polish president Lech Kaczynski that has provoked a divide in Polish nation. The religious symbol has become the political weapon.
My photo reportage from my trip to Warsaw: the cross that divided the nation
Space is a precious commodity as we populate cities. The more people, the less square meters. Many people struggle today with the housing problems as their families grow. The problem seems to be very difficult to solve, unless you've met Gary Chang - the domestic transformer. He gives the real meaning to the expression "small is the new big" .
This is very inspiring video showing the process of how Gary Chang transformed his 344 sq. ft. apartment into 24 rooms residence. Such solutions will be unavoidable in the near future in majority of cities. Exploiting the space. Optimizing it and making it sustainable. After all we just don't need vast space to live in, what we need is the functionality of the domestic surroundings.
We so used to customiztion. We can adjust so many things around us, so they fit to our needs, from mail to shoes. Things are the way we like and want. So why not take it a step harder and change the reality by using the glasses that can photoshop reality. Funny and dangerous invention. Don't try it at home ;)
The culture is the never ending remaking and reinventing. The past inspires and is the foundation of the new "creations". Culture is the sum of all achievements of humanity. They add up and become something new. The act of copying and remixing has become more visible and accessible than ever thanks to Internet.
In fact it also means that there are and can still occur cultural big bangs when the completely new ideas are born.
Via Johnnie Moore
The future is the remix of the present. Great example of the evolution of present into future is this service called Recorded Future, which offers unique analysis tools to aggregate and organize past and present events, and provides a comprehensive outlook of the future. You can get insights into what's going to happen for only $149 a month. Exciting idea and cheap price for taking a look into the future.
3 years ago I wrote a post about Polish NON-COMMERCIAL artistic project called Sufferosa by Dawid Marcinkowski and yesterday I was contacted by him and he got great news - the project is finished. So get ready for amazing experience. Sufferrosa is a non-linear, interactive web-based movie, an experimental storytelling project combining cinema and the web. Film actors includes famous legends of the Polish film industry: Beata Tyszkiewicz, Ewa Szykulska and Ryszard Ronczewski and great soundtrack with the names as Sonic Youth, Glass Candy, Tarwater, Exploding Star Orchestra and many more.
Sufferrosa is a satire of cult of beauty and youth in the present-day world and frustrated woopies (Well-Off Older People) who spend their life savings on plastic surgery.
Sufferrosa is D. Marcinkowski's homage to
Jean Luc Godard’s movie 'Alphaville' (1965), W.J.Has's cult-movie 'Manuscript
found in Saragossa' (1965), American film noir and the French writer Vernon
Sullivan.
I will not tell you more, just tune into Sufferosa universe and take on this interactive and amazing ride. Remember what happens in the movie depends entirely on the choices you make.
The satire of modern world populated by corporations
This is definitely something one must share :) Great and not so surprising tips
Meetings are nice but are all they really necessary? It is very valid question on Monday morning and calender full of meetings. Sitting in meetings is often a nice time - waster, break from work where you sit and...nothing really happens except of talking.
How to change the meeting culture and cut down the unproductive hours of just sitting and talking. Here are a few tips from Seth Godin
It is a good way to start the new year at work, the year that is about doing the meaningful things.
via Tom Fishburne
