(2/2) where immobilized patients stare at cottage cheese ceilings while robots irradiated them. Couple years ago, a friend who required treatment told me that the painting is still there.
When I was being irradiated, the radiology crew commented on my painted shoes, so I gave them a link to some of my paintings online. The next day, I saw that they had downloaded one painting and were using it as a screen saver in their control room. So the day after that, I gave them the original, which they hung in the control room. Then they were told they couldn't hang things there, so they put it in the treatment room,
30 years ago, a 19 year old Swarthmore student started blogging EVERYTHING that happened to him. In 2004, New York Times Magazine declared him "the founding father of personal blogging." I mention this because this is the 30th anniversary of his site:
For 5 years, I taught an online course on intro to #cooperation studies: what we are learning from converging biological, evolutionary, psychological, sociological, economic, computational, political inquiries into how humans and other critters get things done together. I've compiled the videoconferences, lectures, syllabus in a free pdf
"Platform cooperatives are businesses that sell goods or services primarily through a website, mobile app, or protocol. They rely on democratic decision-making and shared platform ownership by workers and users.'
Among the important ideas Langdon Winner has introduced is the notion of technology "regimes," expanding our definition of #technology beyond the artifact to include the economic, political, ecological, infrastructural scaffolds that make each artifact possible. The politics of sugar and colonialism, the mining of aluminum and energy that goes into creating metal cans, the politics and economics of water are all inextricably involved in a simple can of cola -- the "regime" of a can of cola.
60 years ago today, at age 16, my friend and I got out of school early (this was Phoenix, where several students in my high school chemistry class cheered when they heard JFK had been shot), so we peeled peyote buttons, put them in a blender, downed the foul mix, and spent the night on a mountain in the desert. We had pledged to do this, our first psychedelic trip, "next Friday, no matter what," as 16 yr old boys are wont to do. The vision of America I had that night has proved to be accurate.
Mostly complete digital works at http://rheingold.com and https://patreon.com/howardrheingold -- I wrote books about tools for thought, virtual communities, virtual reality, smart mobs, taught classes at UC Berkeley & Stanford on digital journalism, social media issues, social media literacies. Now I make art. I'm interested in all of the above & like to follow knowledgeable ppl about current events, science, humor, community. #technology #onlinecommunities #art #socialmedia #learning #edutech