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I live in a country, a pretty small country in fact, that has a really bad flag. I mean this not in terms of what it means or stands for and all that, but in terms of design. I’m talking about the flag of Slovenia, which not unlike the
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I was reading about a jet pack inventor in Wired (UK edition, Nov, 2020). That’s right, it’s still a thing apparently. What struck me most was not only the guy’s dedication to something nobody is quite sure we will ever need, but the story of his father
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I have to admit, I loved reading this. I relished like a smooth, hard, and cold drag on a cheap lager at the end of a hot July day. I’ve always wondered what happens to forecasters when their future(s) goes all pear-shaped? Trend forecasters predict a more trendless
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There is much crossover between design and politics that many realise. Firstly, there is the idea of shaping behaviour in the aggregate by making and implementing decisions. Then there is the typically willing lack of empathy to the people who have to deal with what you decide. These are both,
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Design as escapism I like history a lot. I like the present maybe a little less, and I tell myself the future is something we can’t quiver in terror of, despite doing that all the time. I can never make up my mind really. Whether this is some outcropping
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I was reminded of a story my, aunt in what was once Yugoslavia, told me one time. It was 1968 and the Soviet Union had just invaded and crushed a nascent independence movement in Czechoslovakia. Bear in mind this country was already Communist but apparently not enough. What she described
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Often times we get stuck in the rut of thinking that all these famous historical people had it all figured out. Much you read, especially any of the so-called trendy Stoic advice, lauds ancient beardy types as having infinite wisdom that somehow was lost to the ages. There is an
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What if AI went the way of vaccines? Remember when everyone loved the idea of being free of all sorts of diseases that used to kill millions a year? Remember way, way, back when that correlated to the amount of progress with vaccines? Remember when people trusted and wanted to
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In 2016, blockchain technology was going to replace, well, basically everything. It was going to replace the people and processes that verified and exchanged real estate. It was going to revolutionise how you lived from the self-driving car that autonomously bargained and bartered with other autonomous cars to saving the
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This was going to be a huge essay. It was shaping up to thousands of words, there lumbering on my computer waiting to plod and tramp over your brain. But, because I love you, Dear Read, I’ve taken the gobs of compiled rants, links, and blah and making a
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So here is a really interesting use of typographical resistance involving one of my favourite alphabets as laid out here by security superstar Bruce Schneier. Here’s another bit on the alphabet, not even language, hack to fight hackers. I have a funny…wait, scratch that, slightly interesting story about
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Anyone remember the Arab Spring? You know where the various peoples of generally Arab North Africa had their erstwhile pro-democracy uprisings taken over by western media as the soon to be salad days of when all government bowed to Big Tech’s1 subsuming Cloak of Enlightenment? Anyone remember that bit?