Smári McCarthy Originally uploaded by Wrote The man in the picture is Icelandic, outlandish, with lots of fancy words. FabLabs (a set of machines to make any plastic object up to 1 meter in size) point to a future, and McCarthy talked about that future. No scarcity, everything “non-exotic” (which is not imbued with aura, …
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FSCONS: Conversations are the conference
Just had an interesting micro-conversation, with a man who spoke with a slightly Indian accent. Cambodia: No landlines, but quite developed mobile phone networks, never bothering with the previous stage of tech. Leapfrogging. Related: Ericsson deployed a solar-powered mobile base station there. That press release hits all points in the last paragraph of the leapfrogging …
FSCONS 2008, Sunday
Listening to a guy in a red t-shirt. He talks about Debian package structure. People ask questions. He is reading from a tiny-font control configuration file. Not so good for my concentration. But, he has a good voice, at least it has some melody. Yeah, a big corporation in search donated a Moleskine notebook in …
Roleplayers, everywhere
In Gothenburg, at the FSCONS conference. Henri Bergius, a Midgard developer from Helsinki, was here, and I asked him: “Is Finland small enough that you know Timo Multamäki?” “Why, yes, I know him.” And with that, Henri proceeded to tell me about Monday Night Larp, a 2-hour event, every week, that’s been going strong for …