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Disruptive Technology Through Open Source Creative Practice
Disruptive Technology Through Open Source Creative Practice
With little competition ‘art’ has the power to shift and break
boundaries, change attitudes towards ideas and realign our
perception of the world. As we receive ourselves through our body
we consolidate feeling with experience and art has the power to
provoke and reflect both. Whether created through play or
meticulous planning and execution it has the ability to at once be
something new and nothing that has not been there before. The
cultural facts that we produce are reconfigurations of a past we do
not posses and the path to understanding a future not yet come.
The answers are quite literally on the tip of our tongue and at the
end of our fingertips. Facebook, Wiki, Google and others are like
digital monoliths; huge intangible structures of our age. They could
act as a foundation for considered and universal growth. Problems
arise with the stateless nature of these beasts and the constant
tethering of there power. How we will harness their power should be
a matter of concern to all who use them at this point. Software
written to create almost omnipotent functions will become more and
more commonplace. And the importance of Democracy to triumph
over Capitalism will likely decide our fate and that of our children.
Digital frontiers have just begun to open up and are there for the
taking, The convergence of technology and a consolidation of
entities is further off than many imagine. Just as one mans rubbish
is another mans gold, could we be on the tip of a Metadata rush that
will shift our understanding of information and knowledge. Is this an
age where resources and tools can sit on a cloud and illustrate ideas
from far beyond?
‘PLAY’ A PART…
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i
The Pyramid of the Sun was discovered by Dr. Sam Osmanagic in 2005:
http://www.piramidasunca.ba/en/
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Biodiversity is all we have, so the case for conservation ought to be obvious.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/biodiversity
iii
Science concerning the genomes of organisms. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genomics
iv
Patented by Trvor Baylis in 1989: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windup_radio