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To celebrate The Space (an Arts Council/BBC-funded digital art body) being awarded £3 million to spend on 800 arts and culture organisations, here is my bridge-burning piece from three years ago on how they wasted ~£20m on laughably bad ‘digital art’.
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China’s Social Credit Score, and the distraction of Black Mirror
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No comments on China’s Social Credit Score, and the distraction of Black MirrorAdam Greenfield has a good introduction to the scope and folly of China’s new tech-driven social credit score in The Atlantic. On Metafilter, he also remarked on how he was disappointed by constant responses of “it’s just like Black Mirror!”: It makes me really sad that so much of the response to this piece has…
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Hit me up with your Disneyworld recs! I’m going there – and Kennedy Space Center – in two days time…
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I’m playing a whole bunch of story games for a Thing, and one is making me intensely motion-sick – even more so than the previous nausea-inducing champ, The Witness. I may have to resort to a YouTube walkthrough to make it to the end. Do devs just not test for these problems?
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Is it expecting too much of the BBC to want a comprehensive, fully searchable, and indexed list of Winter Olympic sports, with video clips plus chapter markers, preferably on the web and iPlayer? It’s surprisingly difficult to find my ol’ favourite Snow Cross wacky races.
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The New VR Arms Race: Kids vs Parents
Kids are gonna have cybersex, and parents won’t like that General-purpose VR headsets like the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive are so expensive and fragile that we haven’t yet had to worry about how it’ll affect kids. VR is still like the PalmPilot PDA in 1997, an expensive curiosity for just a million enthusiasts. It has…
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Through an iPhone, Squinting
If you want a vision of the future, imagine your arm holding up your iPhone — forever It has been truly delightful to see all the imaginative augmented reality prototypes made by developers playing around with Apple’s new ARKit framework. It’s only been available for a couple of months, but developers have already gone to town with…
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Disney’s Giant Leap Forward
When Disney surveyed the public about a hypothetical immersive Star Wars hotel early this year, it felt like an idea from the future, not an actual commitment. Surely they’d wait until after the opening of Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge — already a highly ambitious and risky new park area — before starting work on a whole new hotel? But…
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A Mild Extravagance
I’ve swum in lakes shorter than the Parliament Hill Lido, which measures 61 metres long and 27 metres wide. The lakes are also warmer. Because the lido is unheated, and because it doesn’t contain as much thermal mass, its temperature changes more rapidly with the weather. 23C is where it tops out, which is also…
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The Problem with Podcast Dramas
TV drama has entered its platinum age. Novels are being written by more diverse and talented authors than ever before. Even games are getting decent stories. But in the world of podcasts, dramas are being outearned and outlistened by their nonfiction counterparts. Why? Here’s the easy answer: just as television killed the radio (drama) star…
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