Showing posts with label only connect. Show all posts
Showing posts with label only connect. Show all posts

July 22, 2009

Nicolas Bourriaud Re- the "AlterModern"

Bourriaud keeps nailing some of the same things I've been seeing.



Near the end, he suggests history is the new, last undiscovered continent, which artists are exploring as if it were a jungle (cf. my posts on Barney, Linzy, and Trends at the 2009 NYC Fairs.)

Find Bourriaud's altermodernist "manifesto" (and another instance of the video) at the Tate. (Interesting to compare the comments there to those on YouTube.)

December 10, 2008

Beijing Soon to Be Largest Free Wi-Fi City

Now that's infrastructure; scheduled for completion by 2011. Details at Danwei via Gizmodo (thanks, Ben!); previous post re- India's effort to provide free internet nationwide here.

April 29, 2007

Free, Nation-Wide WiFi

From engadget:

"Entire cities getting free WiFi used to be quite the sensation, but now the real hotness is in connecting up an entire nation. According to IndiaTimes, the government is proposing that all citizens of India receive complimentary 2Mbps internet by 2009 . . . . Unsurprisingly, . . . consumers cheer on the idea, [while] current telecom providers are shaking at the mere thought of all future telephone calls being converted into free VoIP dialogue."

Unthinkable here; only unfettered capitalism might achieve such benisons -- and if it doesn't, they're impossible, of course.