Number 61 » the future

‘A Masonite Labyrinth’

Matthew Gipp — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:47:20 +0000

In 1984, artist WIll Insley exhibited ONECITY, an “‘imagininary, 650-square-mile labyrinth,’ designed without regard for the ‘utopias of the future, but rather with the dark cities of mythology, which exist outside of normal times in some strange location of extremity.’”

The corresponding NY Times article.

Check out the BLDGBLOG post for lots of great pictures that (regrettably) do little to clarify the concept.

DIY Cyborgization

Matthew Gipp — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:13:40 +0000

Lepht Anonym, a DIY transhumanist—think garage-toiling cyborg and you’re on the right track—writes about the surprising affordability of some of the components it has installed in its body.

Does it get any cooler than that? I submit that it does not. I mean, are you even registering Anonym’s preference for the third person singular pronoun?

via Tyler Cowen

Auto Everything

Matthew Gipp — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:57:21 +0000

Cargo rockets, auto-driving cars, color-coded freeway lanes, never walking anywhere: Magic Highway USA (or, the future of American infrastructure as imagined by Disney in 1958).