Kirby Ferguson has just posted the last of his brilliant four-part series on remix culture that we talked about here a few months back .
Insightful, interesting and food for thought. Enjoy the finale and make sure to see all four if you haven’t already checked them out.).
Copy. Transform. Combine. Everything is a Remix .
The act of creation is surrounded by a fog of myths.
The whole series is super interesting and well done (though does make you realize how many revered artists “ripped off” heavily) so do check it out if you get a chance. Even better, episode four is still to be completed so kickstart Kirby some cash so he can finish it. It’s a pretty interesting foursome and the guy definitely deserves your support.
Fantastic essay. The Singularity won’t be Heaven by Annalle Newitz on how the belief that technology will save us by transcending human limitation and misery on an imagining of today’s technologies isn’t going to happen. Brilliant and spot on with her insight that we often believe technology will go far enough to benefit us, and then stop before it disrupts us… “the future is not the present on steroids.”
Love her observation on how the Victorian belief in the power of industrialization would save all humanity (despite Malthus) in much the same way we look at technology, popularized in things like Star Trek, as being able to save us as we progress. Love the idea of insufficiently weird predictions of how technology will change us just being wrong.