Time Out of Joint:tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-812489959698982512011-07-07T08:04:43-07:00a notebook on cinema, hyperreality, and longing . . .TypePadthe physicality of books (and cinema) part 1tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83423522453ef01543385a88a970c2011-07-07T08:04:43-07:002011-07-07T08:04:43-07:00Of course, one of the dreams of technology is in unlocking the "poetry" of physicality. In our own time think of the endless quest for artificial intelligence and the fascination with Human +. But the cost seems to be that we are required to give up or limit the depths of humanity in order to reach that goal. Technology demands this abdication. Tools are not benign, they change us.Reno LauroHarvard Researchers Monitor Violence in Sudan | The Harvard Crimsontag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83423522453ef0148c765a28e970c2011-01-07T13:49:35-07:002011-01-07T13:49:35-07:00A team of researchers from Harvard University is collaborating with Google and a humanitarian group led by George Clooney to implement a monitoring system that will watch for violence in southern Sudan. The Satellite Sentinel Project—a joint effort by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, the Enough Project, the U.N.’s Operational Satellite...Reno LauroThe coming wave of augmented realitytag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83423522453ef0147e0edaccc970b2010-12-22T07:52:24-07:002010-12-22T07:56:52-07:00Forrester Research this week predicted an impending boom in the field of "augmented reality." Soon, we won't even need to put that term in quotation marks. It will be an everyday expression. Augmented reality is mostly commonly used to mean the overlaying of digital images onto a real scene. So...Reno LauroHatsune Miku: phantasmagoric commoditytag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83423522453ef0133f5dcbaa0970b2010-11-14T23:20:24-07:002010-11-14T23:22:07-07:00Continuing to ponder the Japanese holographic pop star, Hatsune Miku, I'm reminded of the specifics of Umberto Eco's experience at the New York School of Holography. In his essay, the hologram on display was a 'virtual' erotic lesbian encounter. This experience of the virtual 'phantasmagoric' object/commodity and sex is so...Reno LauroCaution in the Wildernesstag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83423522453ef013486c4a118970c2010-09-03T08:51:16-07:002010-09-03T08:51:16-07:00I recently experienced the new Arcade fire 'hyperlink-video', The Wilderness Downtown, and was cautiously moved. The video allows you (or more accurately you allow it) to access the memories of your childhood by incorporating Google Earth images of the address where you grew up. I must confess that the sense...Reno Lauro