week 106

Augmented Hands. I repeat my prediction that all human senses will eventually be mediated by computers.
The Turing Complete User. This is a thing that I keep thinking about, in terms of how much humans should know about the technology that they use in very vital and / or intimate ways. I don’t drive…but many people that I know who do drive can’t do anything if their car breaks down. What is the appropriate model for using computers?
Machine learning algorithms try to understand art, results are amazing.
Dave Sirlin has a podcast, natch.
Oh no, people are using samples tackily. Sherburne has a point, for sure…but it’s not like dance music, or indeed music, has ever been decent about stealing ideas from people. Shit goes back to the Baroque, at least.
Caribou has made a 1000 song mixtape. Yeah.
Teufelsberg impulse responses. (!!)
Sterling, Lebowsky, and Doctorow talk about the state of the world.