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Art in the Age of Algorithms: Patronage, Practice, and the Persistence of Human Creativity

A montage of decades of culture, fictiona, real, and meme in the artistic stylings of Hayao Miyazaki, posted to Reddit The Eternal Return of Innovation No human invention, once birthed into material or conceptual existence, ever wholly disappears. The afterlives of tools and techniques often exceed their origin epochs, resurrected in forms both reverent and […]

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Eleven Years in Percolation

On the occasion I have been asked “What do you do for a living?”  – for the last twenty years or so, my answer has been “I’m a technologist” (a phrase I first crossed in the writings of Cory Doctorow). That answer may seem vague, perhaps even fanciful,  but I see it as honest – […]

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