There is only one Watson - and Siri is its prophet

There is only one traffic and Google is driving it.
The Cloud is everywhere, in everything.

A different perspective on the world - as seen by robots

Completely rational, mechanical, explicable - but really weird. Like a new born trying to make sense of a new world. This video simply consists of footage from robo-cameras. More information here.
One of the inspirations for the work was this essay.

Nature's design is dynamic

A couple of thoughts on biomimetics and on using nature as inspiration for design.

Usually, it’s about things, finished objects whose beautiful shape or super-smart functionality and construction was copied or inspired by nature. Velcro, shark skin swimsuits, adhesives based on Gecko feet…

But we rarely see design that mimics the dynamics in nature. The ability to adjust, to grow and evolve, to move, to heal, to disintegrate and compost. These would be interesting properties in our objects and systems.

Just noticed that the Club of Amsterdam is doing a workshop on “Social biomimicry”; that is, the ability of systems in nature to self organize swarms and flocking behavior, typically without central leadership.

It’s on February 23^rd. – I wish I could go.