Category: digital culture

Poetic Descriptive Camera

Sometimes half the fun of hatching an idea is thinking through all the silly things you’d do, even if you’re ultimately too lazy to dig in and actually do it. In this spirit, I’d like to share **a hack to playfully disrupt the [Descriptive Camera](http://mattrichardson.com/Descriptive-Camera/),**…

A Learning Network for Berlin

There’s a **long road ahead to bring Europe’s “start-up darling” Berlin up to par with learning & and the web.** Digital literacy and simple computational competencies are often lacking; and there’s no indication yet that Berlin schools will step to fill the gap.* There’s an…

Vending Machines of the Future

No trip to Japan would be complete without a report about their **vending machines from the future.** A few years back, when I traveled to Japan for the first time, friends put me on scouting missions: >”Find the [robotic vending machine](https://secure.flickr.com/photos/sanchome/525890022/) that follows you around…

Filter Failure

>Clay Shirky suggests that there’s **no such thing as information overload, only filter failure.** This is a very modern response to an older question. Futurist Alvin Toffler warned us about information overload, popularizing the phrase. It’s an extension of the idea of sensory overload, the…