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@metric.media Jan 25, 2018, 10:18 PM UTC

The Architect Is Coming For You (The End of Metric Media)

This will be the last post from this account . . . . Here is what happened as reported by Transhumanity.net with in-line additions by the survivors . . . . (Provo, Utah) It appears that, in a brief c…

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@metric.media Jan 12, 2018, 12:50 PM UTC

Simulated News and Techno-Tribalism

We have reached a point in the early 21st Century at which media cannot be assumed to directly represent reality. This is both true in the general and older sense that we may distrust any narrative,…

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@metric.media Jan 5, 2018, 1:17 PM UTC

TechGnosis: Reality Hacking for Fun & Profit

Metric Media recently published an article called “Burning Houses & Gaming the Future”, which explored the utility of game logic in helping people achieve real goals in our increasingly technolog…

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@metric.media Dec 24, 2017, 9:49 PM UTC

Autognosis: Cities 3

Grid Scale Energy Storage So far in Autognosis: Cities we’ve discussed how growth curves of cities could be brought into alignment with other life forms, how a city could be fitted with a smart grid…

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@metric.media Dec 23, 2017, 11:11 PM UTC

Autognosis: Cities 2

Sustainable Design In the last installment of ‘Autognosis: Cities’ we discussed a theory of matching the growth curve of a city with that of an organism. In this installment, I would like to cover th…

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@metric.media Dec 20, 2017, 9:16 PM UTC

Burning Houses & Gaming the Future

Back in the distant, hazy days of 1998, Futurist Douglas Rushkoff published a book called “Playing the Future” (published in the UK as “Children of Chaos”). The book’s central thesis was that people…

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@metric.media Dec 15, 2017, 4:48 PM UTC

Killer AI, Black Mirrors, & Murphy’s Law

Debate over the risk and promise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and other technologies can be depressingly simplistic, often polarised into two camps with views that are extreme to the point of cari…

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@metric.media Dec 13, 2017, 7:21 PM UTC

Autognosis: Cities 1

’Cities are the Crucible of civilization’. So said Geoffrey West, a professor studying the General Scaling Phenomenon of the natural habitat of the modern human – cities. Geoffrey has spent his caree…

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@metric.media Dec 12, 2017, 1:44 PM UTC

Big Data Knows You, Better Than You Do

No Such Thing As A Free Meal There are always strings attached, they say. Perhaps this is nowhere more true than in the human mind, which believes itself to be in charge of its own conscious decision…

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@metric.media Nov 27, 2017, 5:50 PM UTC

THINKING ABOUT UX FOR TOUCH DISPLAYS 4: SVG

Animation, either of text elements or of logos, icons, and other visual devices, should be used always. Wherever possible. Our competitors here are not so much web designs as they are videogame conso…

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