Guerilla Ad Vending

Future Guerilla Ad Vending GearUsing GPS, internet, a mobile device and mini-projector street vendors can download and display motion advertising on urban surfaces based on their current location. Ads can contain QR-Codes (make your own) which could require the ad vendor to get passerbys to scan the code with […]

On the Nature of Gravity as Information Compression

GravityIf one assumes the Universe is indeed composed of information and that indeed the Universe is processing that information through physical means then the major forces as defined by the science of Physics can be explained by what is expressed as Information Technology. Specifically society has come to create technologies that address matter and energy as discreet finite units of […]

On Innovation: An Argument Against Patents

Death to Patents…a good idea?Why do we in the U.S. on one hand grant patents and on the other pursue Anti-trust litigation? Is there not a very basic conflict of interest here?

How could we provide the legal magic beans that will grow only to attempt to destroy the giant they may lead to? […]

Information Atrophy: Living with Chinese Internet Censorship

CensorshipI have been living in Shanghai for about 3 months now and have experienced first hand how frustrating a censored internet experience can be. The result of this frustration has grown to become a malady I call information atrophy.

For my information atrophy, I take regular doses of proxies and plug-ins however the side-effects of these generally include irritable […]

Game Engines or Life Engines?

Bugatti EngineSensor nets like those found in cars –over time– provide a resolution of data that allows for reality-modeling much like that done by game engines.

Therefore, using reality as input to game engines to model reality allows for feedback to physical objects to modify reality.

Such game engines controlling reality should be called life engines. […]

Posted at 3am on 10/17/07 | no comments | Filed Under: game engine, games, idea, life engine, sensor nets read on

The Physical Cost of Bloatware

Bloated Tick…I can hear it 15 feet away as I approach my latest workstation. As a nomadic being my workstation, my node, my interface is a laptop and I can hear the whine of its fans growing louder as I approach.

Many are accustom to the variable tone of laptop cooling, indeed the rising and falling intensity of the fans […]

Posted at 5am on 06/15/07 | 2 comments | Filed Under: awareness, bloatware, business, computing, economics, legal, mobile computing, musing read on

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