The Future Will Be Confusing

The urban beehive is a concept for keeping bees at home. The beehive is designed to allow us a glimpse into the fascinating world of these industrious creatures and to harvest the honey that they produce.

When I took a step back I started seeing Twitter as this ecosystem where organisms (users) act and react to behaviors (tweets/retweets) from other organisms. I thought it would be interesting to think of each Twitter user as a uniquely colored and shaped single-celled organism, or as I call it tweeture.

Cinder is a community-developed, free and open source library for professional-quality creative coding in C .

Evrythng is a new internet software and services company providing a unique online identity and profile for any physical object

A Geiger vacuum cleaner

I’d really dig a vacuum cleaner that would generate some kind of continuous audio signal, the way Geiger counters do, based on the amount of dirt it’s actually grabbing, so you could listen to how clean the floor is.

"According to Sterling, the future comes in two flavors: (1) Gothic Hi-Tech: “Steve Jobs creates something brilliant, but you have to suffer from health problems.” (2) Favela Chic: “You have lost everything material, no job or prospects, but you are wired to the gills and really big on Facebook."

Bruce Sterling’s Scenarios for the Future: Favela Chic and Gothic Hi-Tech | Endless Innovation | Big Think

"the history of the evolution of C++ over time can be described as a history of trying to plug the leaks in the string abstraction"

The Law of Leaky Abstractions - Joel on Software

ChordPunch is a record label dedicated to algorithmic music:sound generated by or inspired by automated process.