Archive For January, 2010
The more I explore the subject of climate change, the more I notice two distinct (and dangerous) ways of perceiving it. On the one hand, there is the ‘end of the world is nigh’ position, which I am occasionally guilty of lapsing into. At the furthest extreme of this position lies a conviction that human [...]
Inside this most insipid cover lurks a delicious concoction of fabulously lush dream pop. This is the album these two have been threatening to make for a couple of years now. There is a freshness to these soundscapes that comes with confidence and every note on this album oozes class. Yes, there are influences aplenty, 
1994’s startling debut from dEUS gets the sumptuous repackaging treatment. The original album threw jazz, funk, indie, grunge, Frank Zappa samples and film noir influences into the blender and against all the odds emerged with an album that attained instant classic status. The repackaging involves a further cd of rareties, a DVD of live performances 
I know why it sucks … it’s not because I don’t know how to write a proper website … I do … it’s because it’s a personal site, and I kinda tinker with it and add things from time to time, and experiment … and because I’ve been using HTML for too…
I know why it sucks … it’s not because I don’t know how to write a proper website … I do … it’s because it’s a personal site, and I kinda tinker with it and add things from time to time, and experiment … and because I’ve been using HTML for too…
Source: Education Futures
A few years ago, I started subscribing to emails from the World Futurist Society, to keep an eye on some of the ways ahead that the thinkers, theorists and doers are expecting might come to pass. Naturally, some of the predications are quite wacky or even slightly terrifying, but the majority of them tend to be both pretty positive and deeply captivating for the average futurism geek. By their very nature, it seems that futurists tend to be a pretty optimistic bunch.
As I’m now beginning to blog a little more about my line of work and include education in my subject palette, I thought I’d put the above timeline up for sharing. I could well imagine, for example, the idea Education Futures has that in 2033 a ‘neo-Luddite’ movement of educationalists aiming to ‘preserve traditional teaching’ and restrict the use of technology in learning environments. An intriguing discussion for another post, perhaps. They also propose 2025 (just 15 years away) as the time that human intelligence is surpassed by machine intelligence, and the Turing Test is passed routinely. The Semantic Web/Web 3.0 is down as coming to pass in 2012, the end of Obama’s first term.
Humanity is undeniably moving through revolutionary times and I have a feeling that we’re not even at the threshold of how different our world is going to end up in just a generation’s time or less. No-one can really know the true shape of things to come, but I made it my intention several years ago to come along for the ride and try to follow the changes as best I could so as not to get left behind. Can’t wait to see what’s around the corner, that’s for sure!
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A welcome return to the Four Tet project for Fridge’s Kieran Hebden. “There is Love in You” retains the organic feel that has graced his best work. There is a warmth to this recording, particularly the percussion that puts it in a different league to most dance oriented albums. “Rounds”, the album that brought Four 
Back in 1916, Einstein was still working to the assumption that the universe should be neat and tidy, and since he was now using a more mathematical approach, this meant “infinite and unchanging”.If you were solving the equations of general relativity,…
