digital-urbanism
This Is What's in DIY Games: A Teaser
I don't play games. Never have, really. During a blip of my youth you could've found me posted up in my parent's basement, getting down on brick-era Game Boy and SNES classics. True. But for me, as with too many other kids my age itching to kick off...
Watch This Sweeping Aerial Drone Footage of Detroit
OK, everybody. Detroit "ruin porn":http://www.vice.com/read/something-something-something-detroit-994-v16nB lost its poignancy years ago. The city is in "a veritable renaissance":http://www.vice.com/uneven-terrain/detroit-lives-vbs-part-1-of-3, and to...
The Meter Dash: How to Hack Parking
Parking is a real drag. Everything about it sucks, especially in the city. If you're not willing to shell out a bunch of hard cash to some sketchball lot attendant, you're forced to waste precious time idling around, waiting for a street spot to free...
Should New York City Expand Its Network of Trash-Sucking Vacuum Tubes?
When urban planners were trying to turn New York's Roosevelt Island from a haven for the disabled and the mentally ill into a liveable city, they got "utopian":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roosevelt_Island#Architecture. Lying beneath their plans was an...
Goodbye Walking, Hello UNI-CUB
In the aisles of a Wal-Mart, I don't know what wrinkles my nose more, the little 8-year-old kid with the little wheels in his shoes, whizzing past me with a push-pop, or his parents that bought the damn things. Probably, they had little choice, upon...
Rand Paul Doesn't Want Drones Looking At You, American
Well, that sure didn't take long. Just as the Federal Aviation Administration begins streamlining its process for approving requests from drone-hungry government and law enforcement agencies - a move that's drawing fire from digital and privacy rights...
Here's the Beef, You Drones
Most talk around the Federal Aviation Administration throttling to fully integrate unmanned aerial vehicles into U.S. airspace by 2015 has taken to breathless alarmism.
How the West Was Droned: The Curious Rise of General Atomics (Part III)
The U.S., of course, is not officially at war with Pakistan. But if anything, the CIA's Predators and Reapers, despite "getting the boot":http://motherboard.vice.com/2011/12/12/you-don-t-have-to-go-home-but-you-can-t-drone-here-u-s-evicted-from-secret...
How the West Was Droned: The Curious Rise of General Atomics (Part II)
General Atomics isn’t publicly traded on Wall Street, so obtaining any specific information regarding its balances is a daunting task. I almost feel bad for the Public Relations Manager handling my request for comment. I assume she delivers these...
How the West Was Droned: The Curious Rise of General Atomics (Part I)
William Anders was a Catholic before he was shot into space. After seeing the earth from the Apollo 8 and snapping what has become the definitive photograph of our world, Anders returned home a changed man. The specific beliefs and precepts of his...
Hey Big Companies, Data Are Actual Things That Take Up Space
“Digital sprawl” is guaranteed to lead to our doom.
Motherboard TV: Douglas Rushkoff in Real Life
For someone who likes to talk about the virtues of disconnecting, the media critic Douglas Rushkoff seems surprisingly always on. When I visited him at his storefront office near his home in Hastings on Hudson, New York, he was preparing to teach a new...