Replacing paper in direct mail by stuff
February 20, 2008
Getting a weird hookadoo in your mailbox may not be such a remote thing, if Matter project works well, Community Mobilization blog implies.
“Matter is taking an unconventional approach to direct marketing by sending out boxes of ‘interesting stuff’ instead of paper,” following the historically successful model of Direct Mail.
“[The project] is a collaboration between Artomatic and Royal Mail, and it targets consumers in the UK only. If US based companies and philanthropies adopt this method who knows what kind of interesting stuff we may get in the mail, or how much junk we will be contributing to our landfills.”
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Tabletop molecular factories by 2020 - one of the eight pathways
December 13, 2007
Desktop molecular manufacturing may happen not until 2020, but the scenarios of nanotechnology development already sketch such possibility among other eight general storylines, IEET.ORG reports.
The Center for Responsible Nanotechnology (CRN) released the result of collective work of “international team of policy, technology, and economic specialists,” who depicted possible development patterns of nanotechnology in case of widely-ranging events – “from pandemics to climate crises to international conflicts.”
The scenarios aim at springing international “discussions of molecular manufacturing policies and societal responses,” said Jamais Cascio, CRN’s Director of Impacts Analysis, rather than giving predictions.
The importance of the study rolls out from the possibility to cross-examine various, widely ranging possible development pathways of nanotechnology, the website reports, providing for balanced relevant policy-making approach.
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Georgia, Azerbaijan: A New Oil Terminal, and More Money for Baku
November 22, 2007
In the West’s attempts to spin off from the energy cuffs of
LandPrint, by Kitchen Budapest
November 21, 2007
Landprinting may sound like far-fetching one’s vocabulary, but robotized land printers do have a say on this issue. An artist-collective, Budapest Kitchen, has come up with a primitive land printer, comprised of kitchen mixers attached to a lawn mower. Although, admittedly, painting the simple strokes this printer can produce would be much faster if done by hand, the implications of lawn printers cannot be overestimated. From art to advertising, the so far innocent grass field seems to be closing in as a new medium for the modern-world messages.
Studying PCs in Classrooms — 10 Years Too Late
November 21, 2007
Bill Clinton’s proposal of computer-aided curriculum in schools might have had good enough reasons to have been implemented. “The problem is that no national study has proven those claims,” says Allan Holmes in Tech Insider. The
Imbrication of Representations: Risk and Digital Technologies
November 11, 2007
ICT has become both the infrastructure of the risk industry, and the source of new, often incalculable risks; they move from a clear-cut subordinate relationship (as tool) to that of “imbrication”. The ICT infrastructure itself becomes a risk. Source