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Information Society

by William Ball
Dec 15, 2011

Augmented Reality: June 20th, New York City

A dispatch from the ‘uncanny valley’.

The first time I ever actually saw augmented reality, I was living in Albany, NY. My friend loaded LAYAR onto his phone and we walked around our neighborhood, watching real estate data instantiate alongside buildings.

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Occupy Wall Street

by William Ball
Dec 8, 2011

#Occupy As Live Action Role-Playing

We have so much knowledge, so many skills, maybe too much time and energy. Our knowledge is widely distributed and too easily evaporates into the cloud, but we have more of it than ever. We may have fewer skills than past societies (how many cobblers are left?), but there are more of us and a surprising diversity of interest between.