Envisioning dystopia: Eben Venter’s Art of Darkness

Envisioning Theories through Origami Art

Envisioning explanations – the art in science

Visualization involves making and manipulating images that convey novel phenomena, ideas and meanings. It is central to the intellectual objectives of almost every area of science. It is therefore surprising that we still lack an understanding of how visual thinking works. Examples from different sciences illustrate how scientists interpret and explain phenomena by actively manipulating those p...

Toward medical dystopia.

I a general surgeon with more than three decades in private clinical practice. Since the late 1970s, I have witnessed remarkable technological revolutions in medicine, from computed tomographic scans to robot-assisted surgery, but I have also watched as medicine slowly evolved into the domain of technicians, bookkeepers, and clerks. Government interventions over the past four decades have yield...

The Locative Dystopia

2004 opened with the cancellation of a number of commercial airline flights at the bequest of the US administration. This serves as a reminder of the mundane and arbitrary operation of power ("Its got to the point where if there's anybody called Mohammed aboard, your flight's got a problem" senior airline source, quoted Guardian, 3 January 2004), and also of the renewed focus on surveillance an...

Dystopia as a Service

Keynote Address Dystopia as a Service Adrian Cockcroft, Netflix Summarized by Rik Farrow ([email protected]) Adrian stated that they are engineers trying to solve hard problems and to fix things when they break. We all want perfect code on perfect hardware. But perfection takes too long, utopia is slightly out of reach. So they compromise, focusing on time-tomarket instead of quality. At Netflix, ...