Category Archives: Life
City of the Singularity, part 2: Missions Too Important to Jeopardise
A city run by a superintelligent system would be shaped by the mission the machine intelligence sets for itself. What mission would be best for its citizens? Continue reading
The City of the Singularity Part 1: You See Us
What if machine intelligence was in complete control of the city and its citizens? Continue reading
California at London’s Design Museum
“Californian design has cruised a freeway to the future, but at some multi-level interchange, it may have left the road marked freedom” Continue reading
Touring the near and the elsewhere
On 11th February 2012, I joined Gaia Persico to give a talk about the exhibition ‘the near and elsewhere’ which she curated at the PM Gallery, Ealing, London. We had a good crowd! There’s big names in this show of photography … Continue reading
Long Live Chungking Mansions!
The even-floors Block-A lift in Chungking Mansions wasn’t going to stop bleeping, let alone move. Not until the unfeasibly tall man in a suit stepped out. He knew the score and obliged. ‘That was a big guy’ I commented to … Continue reading
