Talking with Robots about Architecture
Jeffrey McGrew
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February 10, 02015
The co-founder of Because We Can, the architecture/design firm that designed The Interval at Long Now, discusses the future of building: automation, communication, and whether "robots" will change everything. An informed and realistic overview of how architects and builders use automation today and how they may use it tomorrow. From February 02015.
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Speculative Futures: Design Approaches to Foster Resilience and Co-create the Cities We Need
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Creon Levit
Space Debris and The Kessler Syndrome: A Possible Future Trapped on Earth
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Brittany Cox
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Elizabeth Lonsdorf
Growing Up Ape: The Long-term Science of Studying Our Closest Living Relatives
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James Holland Jones
The Science of Climate Fiction: Can Stories Lead to Social Action?
January 29, 02019
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Kevin Kelly, Stewart Brand, Alexander Rose
Siberia: A Journey to the Mammoth Steppe
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Caroline Winterer
The Art and Science of Deep Time:
Conceiving the Inconceivable in the 19th Century
September 4, 02018
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Esther Dyson
The Short Now: What Addiction, Day Trading, and Most of Society’s Ills Have in Common
July 17, 02018
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Hannu Rajaniemi
The Spirit Singularity: Science and the Afterlife at the Turn of the 20th Century
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Shahzeen Attari
Facts, Feelings and Stories: How to Motivate Action on Climate Change
June 26, 02018
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Renée DiResta
Disinformation Technology: How Online Propaganda Campaigns Are Influencing Us
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Scott Kildall
Art Thinking + Technology: A Personal Journey of Expanding Space and Time
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Miles Traer
The Geological Reveal: How the Rock Record Shows Our Relationship to the Natural World
June 27, 02017
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Andrew Lakoff
How We Became “Unprepared”:
Imagining Catastrophe from the Cold War to Bird Flu
May 30, 02017
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Jennifer Petersen
Why Freedom of Speech Is More Than Speech:
Expressions in Media and Code
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Tara Behrend
The Psychology of Surveillance:
How Being Watched Changes Our Behavior
February 28, 02017
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Ben Novak
The Next Flight of the Passenger Pigeon: Engineering Nature's Engineers
September 27, 02016
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