VR, AR, music and droids of all sorts: iRobot, Laundroid, and of course the Star Wars variety, as seen at the newly opened Disney’s Galaxy’s Edge land. Continue reading →
Comments Off on Episode 228 – Dragons and Light Sabers
You can wield a lightsaber, just like in the movies with the French Fencing Federation, play VR music games, or plan your surgery with AR. Or, step into Store No. 8 to experience the How to Train Your Dragon world. Continue reading →
Comments Off on Episode 152 – Friends, Romans, Geeks, lend me your code!
In this episode, so soon after the recent US election, Phaedra & Michael M discuss the nature of civic engagement, and how the model of open source software could lend itself to bringing more people into the civic process. Showing up is always the first step, and the model for commits made to open source software could be applied to policy, whereby contributions by citizens could be upvoited or downvoted for inclusion in emerging policy. The pair bring up the idea of cities with personality — if you’re in Chicago, you know how that city’s personality was expressed after the … Continue reading →