Synthespian Escalation
2020: The VTuber Breakout
Due to converging trends in technology & software, 2020 was a breakout year for the VTuber.
What can we learn about from them about the future of entertainment?
THIS IS IT
When UK’s First Lockdown started I started writing about all the things that are important to me.
How I was thinking and feeling about the world. Some of what I wrote between March and May ended up here.
Tales Of The Next Internet
Deep Time, Somatic Software And The Coming Enmeshment
Transcript Sonar+D 2019:
Talk, Video & Transcript of my Tales of the Next Internet talk @ Sonar+D Barcelona 2019
Solarpunk
A Grand Dress Rehersal
Transcript Terraforming Earth:
A brief history of Solarpunk, Cyberpunk and Visions of the Future, Narrative Stategies and Strategic Narratives
Transcribed by Open Transcripts
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Deep Sensing
Deep sensor networks on landscape
Transcript P2P Web Berlin:
Regenerative Landscape Design Patterns, the End of General Purpose Computing, The need for Spacial Awareness in Mesh Network Protocols.
Transcribed by Open Transcripts
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Seeing Through The Debris
Towards A Bootstrapped Postmodern Hermeneutics
Long read on the Breakaway Civilisation, The value of conspiracy theories, the SR 71 Blackbird and The Futures Cone.
There is a big difference between the ‘possibility’ of, and the ‘actual believing’.
Colonising The Clouds
Infrastructure Territory, and The Geopolitics of The Stacks
Slides and Notes from a presentation on Stacktivism, Infrastructure Territory, and The Geopolitics of The Stacks given at Theorising the Web #TTW14 NYC April 2014.
The Coming Asperity
A Definition & Some Speculation
Asperity policies are often used by governments to try to reduce the emissions of a defined population, system or activity to fight climate change.
You can find a complete list of my public speaking / talks / writing here.
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