“So what are you up to today?” asks curious fellow designer person. “Oh, you know, a little genocide in the morning, a lot of emailing people that probably don’t care, and then I have to do expenses,” I respond. The curious fellow designer person usually responds with an uneasy silence and a quick change of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘ubicomp’
Phone calls and Big Promises
Friday, February 25th, 2011Simple Car
Friday, November 5th, 2010Driving is actually quite complicated. There’s a lot of interaction going on in a car, not only with the dash, but where the car fits into a larger system. For instance, you’re actually part of a large commerce system in a car, paying for parking, gas and toll roads, yet the car doesn’t really help [...]
Fuzziness, Data and Truth
Monday, August 16th, 2010At one of our meetings at the National Holocaust Centre with whom we’re working on the Pervasive Monuments project, Adam Moore, our resident information scientist and geo-spatial guy said something that I’ve been thinking about for quite a while. Here’s the summation to the best of my recollection: ”In ‘hard’ sciences, like physics and maths, there [...]
The Hunt
Friday, June 25th, 2010The Pervasive Monuments project is in full, almost incomprehensible swing, and the swirling mass of ideas, issues and things to consider seems to multiply by the second. We’ve been looking at is the notion of a monument, or rather, a digital or “pervasive” monument as not just a static thing or even a static experience, [...]
Learning How to Talk About Pizza in Kigali
Friday, June 11th, 2010There are many things I never knew about Rwanda and could have guessed and many others that I could never in a million years guess. One of them is that I’ve had some of the best pizza I’ve ever had there. While it sounds incredibly trite, especially considering the extremely heavy and sensitive nature of [...]
