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Science, Sexuality, Self, and Art. What else is there?
What will be at a premium in this new world? Our unique ability to create ideas and concepts that go against the all-powerful norm of the factual. The ways of thinking and working that artists and designers embody so naturally will be in higher demand. These skills will be universally recognized as how we advance society’s future, rather than a nice “add-on” as they are perceived of today. Creativity will be the new currency of work, the world over.
-John Maeda, President, Rhode Island School of Design
People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are ‘The Advertisers’ and they are laughing at you.You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.
- Banksy
MIT has announced that they're opening up a huge portion of their courses to anyone in the world for free. It's called MITx. The same courses that are on campus with the same instructors. They're even bundling them together so you can earn a certificate from MIT for a cost.
They're prototyping the system right now with the first and only course: 6.002x Circuits and Electronics. Class starts Monday, better hurry!
"Doing LSD was one of the two or three most important things I have done in my life."
-Steve Jobs
