Up, not North - A new way to interact with fiction. Introducing the Automatypewriter, a new way to experience interactive fiction!
It’s still a little rough around the edges (in particular, you can see that the spacebar sticks a little, and the whole thing needs to be tidied up), but you get the idea: the Automatypewriter is a typewriter that can type on its own, as well as detect what you type on it. By reading what it types to you and responding, it can be used interactively to play a game or participate in a story (in this case, Zork). Though the medium may be the message, a games platform is only as good as its content. To that end I’m collaborating with novelist, graphic novelist, filmmaker, community organizer, and award-winning interactive fiction developer Jim Munroe, who is creating custom software specifically tailored to the Automatypewriter. Interactive fiction is a great genre that is too often overlooked. Also, the usual hacker reason: because we think it’s cool!
See the project page for technical details. How Instagram Alters Your Memory - Emily Badger. Our cities, neighborhoods, and favorite spaces have never been quite so widely photographed before.
Anyone with a smart phone now has a camera. Anyone with Instagram is a faux-fine-art photographer. And any old subject – a puddle of water, a yellow school bus – suddenly demands we capture the moment. It seems highly likely, though, that the ubiquity of digital photography – and the weird ways we now behave because of it – may be altering how we perceive the world around us. Technology is doing this in numerous ways. Or, as psychological scientist Linda Henkel asks in a new study in the journal Psychological Science: "To what extent does capturing one’s life events with a camera shape what one subsequently remembers? " There are a couple of ways to think about the potential answer. To test this, Henkel, a researcher at Fairfield University, concocted a series of experiments leading undergraduate students on guided tours through the university's Bellarmine Museum of Art.
17 USC § 1201 - Circumvention of copyright protection systems. What Is the Middleman in Marketing? Disintermediation. Although Webvan failed in its goal of disintermediating the North Americansupermarket industry, several supermarket chains (like Safeway Inc.) have launched their own delivery services to target the niche market to which Webvan catered.
This can also happen in other industries where distributors or resellers operate and the manufacturer wants to increase profit margins, therefore missing out intermediaries to increase their margins. Disintermediation initiated by consumers is often the result of high market transparency, in that buyers are aware of supply prices direct from the manufacturer. Buyers bypass the middlemen (wholesalers and retailers) to buy directly from the manufacturer, and pay less. Buyers can alternatively elect to purchase from wholesalers. Often, a business-to-consumer electronic commerce (B2C) company functions as the bridge between buyer and manufacturer. To illustrate, a typical B2C supply chain is composed of four or five entities (in order): History[edit] Intermediaries and Cybermediaries: Sarkar, Butler and Steinfield. Laiki agora. A market in Heraklion, Crete, famous for its tourism.
Some of the fresh produce that can be identified in this photo include: Tomatoes, lettuce, spinach, bananas, cherries, watermelons, melons, red and yellow apples, cucumbers, garlic, apricots, grapes, lemons, pears, beans, strange fruits, peaches Laiki agora (λαϊκή αγορά, Greek for people's market), also common in the plural Laikes agores (λαϊκές αγορές, people's markets), are street markets that operate all over Greece, selling foodstuffs and gardening or household equipment, as well as children toys and various "do it yourself" tools. It is considered an important social custom and tradition in Greece.
History[edit] People's markets were founded by Greek political leader Eleutherios Venizelos. Sellers[edit] There are two kind of sellers in Greek people's markets: the "producers" (paragogoi, παραγωγοί) and the "professionals" (epaggelmaties, επαγγελματίες). Permits[edit] Products[edit] Prevalence[edit] Conveniences[edit] Pricing[edit] Amazon and the reintermediation of the spectacle. There’s an archetypal narrative of the web that starts with the word disintermediation.
Which is the posh way of saying cutting out the supply chain middle men. It’s usually accompanied by a picture showing before: and after: The perenial poster child for the promise of disintermediation is Dell; cutting out the distributors and retailers to go direct to consumers with their marvelous black boxes of technology. Like most other things in the realm of new technology people tend to take this picture and extrapolate. But it hasn’t really played out that way. Apple reintermediated the music industry, Sky reintermediated the TV industry, Netflix threatens to reintermediate the cable TV industry, Etsy reintermediated the local craft market, Ebay reintermediated the jumble sale and Facebook reintermediated our friendships.
And for everything else there’s Amazon… The weird thing about Amazon is they’re always there but rarely noticed. Something else that’s weird. But back to the point…
City Island.