Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions. If you will have that precision out of them, and make their fingers measure degrees like cog-wheels, and their arms strike curves like compasses, you must unhumanize them.
There is a price to be paid for fabricating around us a society which is as artificial and mechanised as our own, and this is that we can exist in it only on condition that we adapt ourselves to it.
This is our punishment.
I know a time is coming
All words will lose their meaning
Please show me something that isn’t mine
But mine is the only kind that I relate toLe miroir casse,
The mirror casts mon reflet partout
Black mirror, black mirror, black mirrorThe black mirror knows no reflection
It knows not pride or vanity
It cares not about your dreams
It cares not for your pyramid schemesTheir names are never spoken
The curse is never broken
The curse is never broken
Gouache painting of a design computed with Markov chains, from Kawano’s Artificial Mondrian series.
Desmond Paul Henry made this 1964 pen and ink drawing with an electro-mechanical drawing machine built from bombsight computer parts.
Twenty-eight sewing needles appear and disappear from black knit, imitating a seven-segment display to show the time as kinetic typography.
Do AI answer engines lean on one super-hub source?
Picture a playground where new kids keep arriving, and each new kid picks someone to befriend. The 1999 Barabási–Albert model says new kids pick whoever already has the most friends. Popular kids get more popular. You end up with several big hubs, a lot of medium ones, and a long tail of kids with one or two friends. This pattern shows up in the web, citations, and social networks.
Tentacles of jellyfish are arranged in accordance with a mathematical rule.
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