How do we navigate the shift from the physical to virtual?

3D printing is here to stay, but exactly in what form and for how long is the bigger question. As designers of the future we have a responsibility to embrace new making, but we should ensure that we aren’t swept along with the hype.

When we remember everything, do we understand anything?

The distance has been breached. The physical world we inhabit and the digital world we created are now touching and becoming one. Where the overlap is most pronounced, on the foremost edges, people are making things, rekindling the old, creating the new, all enabled by an interconnected world.

David Cox interviews Bruce Sterling on the so-called ‘New Aesthetic’ to examine ideas such as 'processuality'; identifying patterns that connect machine sensor vision, aerial imaging, beauty in digital 'mistakes' and a general folding in of the digital into the real.

The arrival of the internet was an extinction-level event for much of the old media. But can the new apex predators learn from the fates of those they supplanted?

As we increasingly operate according to the algorithms and information architecture of the internet, we learn not only to write like computers, but think like them too.

From rainbow-filtered Facebook profile pictures to the backlash against Justine Sacco’s infamous AIDS tweet, social media is increasingly used to speak out against (or in favor of) various issues.

How will we manage the process of transition to increased automation? The interesting problem of human-centered design and automation, analyzed through the lense of the AF447 crash.

Tracking interesting signals, ideas and questions in the field of economics and society at large — "always on"