Over the past several decades, his working methods have expanded to incorporate
the sort of digital technologies his earliest work anticipated.
Not exact matches
But when framed in the context
of today's
digital and hyper - connected society, we often fail to see ways in which
technology is preventing this
sort of state from ever happening.
One
of the examples he cited was the recently announced
Digital Defense Service, a
sort of Defense Department job shadowing project in which
technology workers can team up with the government on projects that could last up to two years.
In his book, Free Culture, Lessig argues that
digital technology enables a new
sort of democratic creativity in which many can «participate in the process
of building and cultivating a culture that reaches far beyond local boundaries.»
But
digital technologies also have made it easy to «write» in all
sorts of new ways.
The relentless march
of the
digital technologies requires a continual re-evaluation
of the spaces in which children learn and teachers teach; Ken Robinson in his acclaimed collaborative work with Lou Anonica entitled «Creative Schools — Revolutionising Education from the Ground Up» says «Virtually every day there are new tools for learning and creative work in all
sorts of disciplines and new programs and platforms that can help to customise education for every learner.»
He explores the anthropology
of clubbing, the ironies
of consumerism — both key in his (
sort of) best work here, Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore — and the disembodied mystique
of digital technology.
I initially came from a web development and
digital marketing agency, and we worked with clients from all
sorts of industries at different stages
of technology.
Some companies use
technology to create a
sort of digital «fingerprint» for an image that allows them to keep tabs on it in an automated way, but even if you detect a violation, resolving it is an art
of its own.
It's unclear whether Bitcoin would have taken the
digital world by storm if these
sorts of use cases didn't exist early on in the
technology's development.
The only question left is whether merchants will make the transition to this new
digital payment
technology and provide the
sorts of incentives consumers will likely need to start using bitcoin in the new year.
This trade represents a milestone
of sorts for blockchain
technology, as traditional financial institutions look to incorporate cryptocurrency's underlying
technology for their own uses — before
digital currencies like Bitcoin undermine their status.
The Tezos team imagines blockchain could create a
sort of digital commonwealth, which takes the philosophical idea
of democratizing
technology to a whole new level.