Will robots ever go on strike ?
The Parisian subway system, inaugurated in 1900, operates two lines (1 and 14) with no driver.
Category: New technologies
Listen to some of Marvin Minsky’s piano improvisations, and (re-)read his classical paper on Music, Mind and Meaning.
Fab Labs
Fabrication Labs (Fab Labs) perpetuate the Do-It-Yourself Maker movement by providing open access to physical prototyping tools. Some of them are listed on this map.
Killer robots
Les robots-tueurs ne sont plus une fiction… dixit l’Observatoire des armements à Lyon.
The Art of Gaming
The very first film ever to be transmitted on the Internet was a film about bees transmitted by David Blair in 1993, and is still online.
Hiroshima mon amour
In 1959, Alain Resnais compared the Hiroshima bomb to failed relationships.
In 2010, Americans and Japanese have agreed to work together on the «Hiroshima Reconstruction Project», supervised by Eric Hanson (xRez Studio), to create a virtual model of what Hiroshima was like before 1945.
Où va le cinéma ?
Archive en ligne de rencontres et débats qui ont eu lieu en 2008
au centre Pompidou à Paris.
Bolex Digital
Resurrection of the Bolex camera, with the first digital model.
World Summit of Information Society Forum 2013 in Geneva hosted by the ITU.