#philosophy

32 items tagged philosophy.

• Collective Dreaming — Maximizing degrees of freedom for everybody — a Jane-Jacobs-flavored, evidence-based case for pluralism over optimization.
• Augmented Ecologies — Twenty metres down at Jessie Beazley Reef, Tubbataha — on reefs, attention, and what an augmented ecology might mean. Images © Andrea Marshall.
• How Do You Organize Your Life? — How do we organize the critical data objects in our lives — and what would a better answer look like? A long look at the attention we lose to the sheer work of examining things.
• SIMTIME — A long design document for a simulation-time system. Nearly 20,000 words, left as written.
• On Media, Games and Attention — Written while a games developer in San Francisco — on media, play and where attention goes.
• Notes, June 2007 — A long essay from mid-2007.
• Smart Money — On money, incentives and what markets actually measure.
• Limits — Written at Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park — on limits, land and scale.
• LEGO: Construction Set — The construction set as a way of thinking about software and systems.
• The Case for Mountain Biking on Mars — The speculative piece — recovered in full from the archive.
• Artificial Life — Some Thoughts — Thinking about artificial life, written in 1996.
• Artificial Life: Biochemical Life and Limits — On biochemical life and its limits. March 1995 — the earliest surviving piece.
• Principles of Art, Math and NFTs — How artists are using public ledgers as an extension of their practice.
• Time Bow — The near future.
• Conversational Interfaces and the Future of Code — Where conversational interfaces leave the practice of writing code — with the orbital-puppet stack as the worked example.
• TalKinG tO cLoD — Wandering the desert and talking to claude.ai — two weeks of my life during the AI revolution.
• The Web and Our Future — What will the web be like in ten years?
• The Future of Computation — Computation is a macro-trend that we have trouble seeing.
• Preconditions for the Web — Is the web a necessary invention?
• Our Uneasy Relationship with Knowledge — A survey of the kinds of knowledge we have, how we feel about them, and what new technologies like the web do to that.
• Homo Loquitur — Why do we rely so heavily on visual gesture, facial expression, spoken and written language?
• An Email Thread With My Dad About Gravity
• Cognitive Objects
• Data Redwood Forest
• Unfortunate gardeners
• Edge — Long conversations at the edge of what's known.
• The Metaverse Must Be Deeply Human-Centric — Forrester's analysis of the metaverse, citing the AWE presentation.
• Augmented Reality's Influence on the Future of the Web — A long interview on the Design Reality podcast about AR and where the web is heading.
• Web Monetization and Social Signaling — AWE 2020 — A talk at Augmented World Expo 2020 on web monetization and social signalling, given via Mozilla Hubs.
• Design Fiction: Anselm Hook, “Slowcode” — Bruce Sterling's Beyond the Beyond covering Slowcode — writing less, slower, and meaning it.
• Augmented Reality Musings — Notes on augmented reality, picked up by WIRED.
• Anselm at BIL — Simulate World — Conference talk.