Aside from the main robot exhibition in the museumquartier, there were also several seminar-style discussions on different topics related to robots and technology. There were three different panel discussions: Smartass reloaded? AI and the Future Role of Cybernetics Rest in Pieces? Cyberpunks, Cyborgs and the Complexities of Discourses The Policy of the Artificial: Strategies, Tendencies […]
Entries Tagged as 'Austria'
Fifteen hour bus ride = travel fail
February 4th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Austria, Travel
I’m in Vienna right now. I had a lot of ideas for decent, interesting blog posts I was going to write. I still want to write about Christiania, the automated train system in Copenhagen and some stuff for Berlin. But yeah, I just spent 15 hours on a bus. It wasn’t Greyhound-level terrible. (Note to […]
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A lot of horror movies start this way…
February 6th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Austria, Photos, Slovenia, Travel
Hitchhiking is kind of a strange thing, it’s basically the only activity I can think of that consists primarily of standing in one place and listening to an mp3 player yet is somehow edgy, cool and exciting.
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The Austrians are coming!
March 6th, 2009 · No Comments · Austria, Hacker culture, Shameless link-bait, United States
So I’m here to shamelessly plug Monochrom’s USA tour. As previously discussed in this blog, Monochrom are awesome. Anyone in America these days should make an effort to see them. I sincerely doubt it will cost much, if anything, since Monochom’s relationship with capitalism could generously be described as ‘conflicted’. I was also thinking it […]
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Hackerspaces make Wired, Digg frontpage
March 30th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Austria, Germany, Hacker culture, United States
Way to be late to the party, guys. The world’s least cutting-edge tech media source, Wired, has a decent overview of the hackerspace scene as it exists today in the United States, which this morning made the front page at Digg. I don’t have any major bones to pick with the article, except for the […]
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