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Nicholas Negroponte and the Architecture Machine Group - Seek - 1970

gerbils and aluminium building blocks placed in a perspex cage. when the gerbils moved the blocks an overhead robotic arm responded with pre-programmed actions and repositioned the blocks.




Digital Decay - breakdown of the system and immateriality.

what happens when the systems we rely on don't work?

http://viridiandesign.org/notes/226-250/00237_digital_decay.html

"The system doesn't really work, it can't be fixed, no one understands it, no one is in charge of it, it can't be lived without, and it gets worse every year." - Stewart Brand

if we don't understand the systems we rely on then when something does go wrong, as it inevitably does, then how do we fix it?