"Actor Patrick McGoohan's words are becoming less and less true as technology extends its cheerless remit. "I am not a number," he declared in the cult TV series The Prisoner, "I am a free man."
But increasingly we are numbers , digitized and quantified, rewritten as algorithms and asked for our personal codes to confirm who we are before call center workers will deign to bandy words with us. As if to prove the point, from last Tuesday morning in the UK anyone with a chip and pin card will be obliged to use their pin number and not their signature when making a purchase..." (Stuart Jeffries / THE GUARDIAN)
more @: TaipeiTimes.com
Friday 11 March 2011
Monday 7 March 2011
Writing with a sphere...
When László Bíró saw a ball rolling through a puddle on the street and leaving a trail of water behind it, he conceived an idea that would go on to change everyday life forever. Based on what he had seen, the hungarian journalist along with his brother Georg, began to work on the first commercially successful ballpoint pen...
"The whole is greater than the sum of the parts"
"All the optical units on a picture-surface derive their quality in relationship to their respective backgrounds, ranging from the immediate surrounding surface to the optical field as a whole." (Language of Vision, Gyorgy Kepes)
Objects and background
"Figure or ground, at first glance do you see the figure in front of you or the background?" (Edgar Rubin)
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