Temples For Machine Gods

Perhaps its not a good thing for conference programmers to reveal their favourite speakers and sessions, but James Bridle's Where The Robots Work was my personal highlight from our programme at FutureEverything 2011. James' keynote explored how cities were reorienting themselves around our emerging information infrastructure, notably how the built environment was now as much […]

Quote Of The Day: John Cusack On Jesus…

From the June 2008 issue of Vanity Fair… Who are your heroes in real life? Let’s go with Jesus. Not the gay-hating, war-making political tool of the right, but the outcast, subversive, supreme adept who preferred the freaks and lepers and despised and doomed to the rich and powerful. The man Garry Wills describes “with the […]

He That Believeth In Me

John 11:25-26 –  "I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?" Battlestar Galactica‘s story arcs have always drawn dark and uncomfortable parallels with the War on Terror – themes of […]