Minutes

Infrastructural salon.

January 25th

* Wired magazine article on the 'new industrial revolution'

discusses the flattening of the world due to new technologies.

* Visual thesaurus- a model or type of branching network

Snapdragon

*Ornamentation & beauty as qualities of analog

McSweeney publications as unique products, not mass produced using new techs.

Is ornamentation outdated or not?

'empty formal logic'?

*Victor Hugo

*Biomimicry & algorithmic architecture

*De-modularization (destandardization) of manufacturing processes

*Organic based structures

*Growth of technology is inconsistent (leaps, bounds & plateaus)

*Non centralized systems of growth

& Processing programs ((starlogo?)

Circulation analysis tool

Human motion mapping

*Control of the techs (commons media like wikipedia)

*Privacy concerns of new techs.

Security of augmented environments (hacking)

* 'The cloud' proposed for London Olympics

*The shift back & forth of technology between centralization and decentralization

*'Google Power' vs. infrastructure as historically 'public works'