Why 1859 was Important
By 1859 Telegraph wires were starting to snake out across the US and a mere 13 years later Adelaide will be able to text Darwin and on to the rest of the world. This first essay gives a snapshot of some of the crucial scientific inventions, technologies, research and development that underpinned the meteoric acceleration of Western tech. The essay states that for the year 2009, there is an average of 1.73 significant 150th scientific anniversaries per week. Charles Darwin changed his image forever by publishing that first book, the first Bra was patented, research underpinning the quantum nature of reality emerged and for the first time in history Aluminum became cheaper than gold... Get yourself a spare 25 mins and have a listen.
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Full 30 min Podcast available at: http://www.archive.org/details/Orr_20081012scienceAndTechnologyIn1859
As a counterpoint to these heady days, imagine a future where a silicon big brother is tracking your every move by mobile phone triangulation and gps signaling. This is the iPhone from hell!
When Talk is Cheap, silence is suspect ... Under the HAMMER
Our Pancultural-e project is about piloting new ways to guide pertinent information directly to a users mobile device as a result of their GPS grid location.
Melbourne based Andrew Herrick puts a chilling dystopian spin, similar to Orwell's 1984 novel, on the use of computer evaluated citizen location sensing technology. He imagines a social environment where our every move is tracked by our implanted GPS/Mobile Phone and analysed by a multitude silicon masters. Break the any of the rules and you're brain gets microwaved from a satellite in orbit. This is the age where the term 'surgical strike' ceases to be a metaphor...
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