Machine Thinking

Printing a Book, Old School from Armin Vit on Vimeo.

This 1947 Encyclopedia Britannica film shows in detail the processes of making a book from the linotype machine through a fully bound book. It’s fascinating how many complex steps are completely automated and how other processes are fairly manual (usually done by “girls”).

There are few machines that can compete with the printing press for their impact on the way we think and represent the physical replication of memes.

(via ilovetypography)

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In 1968 Charles and Ray Eames produced an animated short film for IBM detailing the ideas and vocabulary of the coming computer age. Certainly it was meant to allay some of the fears and anxiety experienced with the advance of the new machines.

a computer glossary or, coming to terms with the data processing machine from Eric Spiegelman on Vimeo.

Jonathan Hale writes in this book The Old Way of Seeing:

“In 1828 … [t]he Faust legend obsessed artists and writers; in dozens of works they told the story of the modern predicament: in gaining the power of industry, the world was sacrificing it’s soul. It was not the new machines themselves they feared – there were not yet many – it was machine thinking.”

That quote is, in fact, from where this site derives it’s name. The Eames’ video might be a glossary to the new digital machines, but also an introduction to computer thinking.

Update: Sadly Vimeo has taken this video off line and I’ve been unable to find another online copy. I’ll keep looking.

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Magnetic Movie from Semiconductor on Vimeo.

The secret lives of invisible magnetic fields are revealed as chaotic ever-changing geometries . All action takes place around NASA’s Space Sciences Laboratories, UC Berkeley, to recordings of space scientists describing their discoveries . Actual VLF audio recordings control the evolution of the fields as they delve into our inaudible surroundings, revealing recurrent ‘whistlers’ produced by fleeting electrons . Are we observing a series of scientific experiments, the universe in flux, or a documentary of a fictional world.

source and more information here

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BoingBoing writes:

This Rube Goldberg machine makes sheer delight out of the process of mixing a Falling Water ( 30mls (1Oz) 42BELOW Feijoa Vodka, lemonade, long slice of seedless cucumber, ice)

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Laughing Squid has an excellent summary

Update:

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