The Marginalian
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Reads tagged with “software”

5 Must-See Talks from Google Zeitgeist
5 Must-See Talks from Google Zeitgeist

What the resilience of books has to do with the media arts and recasting the political limelight.

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Aaron Koblin on the Digital Renaissance
Aaron Koblin on the Digital Renaissance

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Reality Is Broken: How Games Make Us Better
Reality Is Broken: How Games Make Us Better

Becoming better versions of ourselves, or how the basic paradigms of gaming culture foster social change.

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PICKED: The Solar System at Your Fingertips
PICKED: The Solar System at Your Fingertips

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NYTimes Data Artist Jer Thorp Visualizes Brain Pickings
NYTimes Data Artist Jer Thorp Visualizes Brain Pickings

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<em>Invisible Cities</em>: A Transmedia Mapping Project
Invisible Cities: A Transmedia Mapping Project

What social media activity has to do with the literal lay of the land.

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MoMA’s Paola Antonelli on Humanized Technology
MoMA’s Paola Antonelli on Humanized Technology

What augmented reality has to do with farm animals and talking sidewalks.

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Retrofuturism Revisited: The Past Imagines the Future
Retrofuturism Revisited: The Past Imagines the Future

Flying cars! Spinning buildings! Voice AND color! …or what Disney has to do with Eve.

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Brain Pickings Redux 2010
Brain Pickings Redux 2010

A year’s worth of ideas, inspiration and innovation from culture’s collective brain.

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The Best Apps of 2010
The Best Apps of 2010

Social magazines, Victorian tablets, and what 100-year-old educational traditions have to do with analog photography.

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