Bret Victor
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Computational Public Space. A talk about a values-driven approach to integrating computation into cities. (40 min)
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Computational Public Space
YouTube video by Dynamicland
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It might be more that preservation benefits from "replication and retention" in any form. Digital vs paper is kind of an orthogonal axis! worrydream.com/TheWebOfAlex...
The Web of Alexandria (follow-up)
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Sherry Turkle's book "Simulation and its Discontents" is a good longitudinal study of what changed (good and bad) as several professions adopted faith-based computing.
mitpress.mit.edu/978026254679...
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It's easy to mock that article, but for most people who don't habitually decap their chips, computers are indeed unknowably-complex black boxes that must be taken on faith, and for a generation who grew up with transparent, fully-understandable tools, that was a great loss. I'm very sympathetic.
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Nice ones can be reused for projects. We made a board game for a friend's wedding, packaged in a former iPad box.
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Toby had started on a 2D version of a similar idea, a while back. Sketch a CAD drawing on paper, draw constraint annotations, it reprints the drawing with constraints applied, repeat. dynamicland.org/archive/2015...
Dynamic drafting paper - Dynamicland archive
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succession of responses:
1. "Why can't you just edit the editor?"
2. "Maybe that's an obnoxious response."
3. "But isn't that what's actually ludicrous about this situation?"
4. "Especially because, when *I* edit the editor, I'm editing *your* editor."
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My POs are open.
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