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Wondering Wii? After I wrote Blurred, I kept thinking about Wii, as the device changes our perspective on the virtual, which is no longer synonymous of immobility. The relationship with the virtual engages us physically: an action calls for a feedback from the machine, which calls for another—sometimes violent—movement. It is our chance to actually [...]
Hommage à l’Abbé Pierre… Sometimes the guilt is too big… When such a great man leaves us, how can we not assess the world we build and the fights we choose? There are certainly more important things in life than owning the latest gadget! But here, to some, the battle seems unequal… To who is [...]
The term has been coined by the Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, himself a “kinetic elite”, to describe a certain kind of population on the move, the new aristocrats of the mobile world, these who earn bonus points and airport privileges (like going faster through the customs) because also they travel extensively… I have my students [...]
While some of us are working and wondering what’s going to be the next new business model or next killer application in mobile technology, other people in different parts of the world are using the mobile phone to fight injustice. Trixie Concepcion of TXTPower, the group that popularized the Hello Garci protest ringtones in the [...]
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