The Deer Hunter (1978) ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

‘Brex­it refugee’ Euro­pean Robin giv­en warm recep­tion in Bei­jing

This is such a sim­ple yet pow­er­ful idea: an AR app “AR Sen­sor” to mea­sure and visu­al­ize var­i­ous spa­tial data, such as Wifi sig­nal strength. (via hackaday.com)

Visu­al­iz­ing spa­tial data with AR

I still find all this very dif­fi­cult to grasp, but it’s always fas­ci­nat­ing to see how art can help explain a sci­en­tif­ic the­o­ry: How Space and Time Could Be a Quan­tum Error-Cor­rect­ing Code

A must read, if you ask me: Child­hood’s End, by George Dyson.

‘Most of us, most of the time, are fol­low­ing instruc­tions deliv­ered to us by com­put­ers rather than the oth­er way around. The dig­i­tal rev­o­lu­tion has come full cir­cle and the next rev­o­lu­tion, an ana­log rev­o­lu­tion, has begun. None dare speak its name.’

Some hits, some miss­es…

35 years ago, Isaac Asi­mov was asked by the Star to pre­dict the world of 2019. Here is what he wrote

‘Thanks to our grow­ing famil­iar­i­ty with com­put­ing, vir­tu­al real­i­ty (VR) and arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence (AI), ‘mod­ern’ soci­eties are now bet­ter placed than ever to grasp the insights of this tra­di­tion.’

Mod­ern tech­nol­o­gy is akin to the meta­physics of Vedan­ta

I very much enjoyed Oskar Kokosch­ka. A ret­ro­spec­tive in Kun­sthaus Zürich today.

How Much of the Inter­net Is Fake?

Every­thing that once seemed defin­i­tive­ly and unques­tion­ably real now seems slight­ly fake; every­thing that once seemed slight­ly fake now has the pow­er and pres­ence of the real.