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David Nunez

Dir of Technology at the MIT Museum • Writing about emerging tech's impact on your life • Speculative insights on the intersection of humanity and technology 🤖

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Weeknotes #2233 - Marking Time

* I skipped last week's weeknotes because last Friday, I was on Day 2 of a long 5-day weekend to clear the head and not think too hard about work or anything else, for that matter. * I read Make Time a couple of weekends ago. It has a smart

Weeknotes #2233 - Marking Time
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Weeknotes #2231 - 27.5 Terrabytes!

Here's what happened this week: * I had several Kendall museum meetings about digital experiences, including a deep dive into the infrastructure requirements for delivering these projects. I also sketched out a new esolang based on one of the designs the developers presented. We have some nascent ideas about

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Weeknotes #2230 - What is here, anymore?

Another week goes by as if it wasn't there at all. A colleague referencing time compression shared with me a humorous take -- and by "humorous" I mean "terrifyingly resonant." MIT this week announced some initial decisions about the fall semester. I was quite

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Weeknotes #2229 - Mending

After feeling burnt out last week, I took it easy on myself these past few days. I have a pile of winter clothes with small rips to repair, socks to darn, etc. Slowly repairing them in meditative quiet, one stitch at a time. We also had our roof replaced this

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Weeknotes #2228 - What is time anymore?

So let's get this part out of the way. I am drafting these weeknotes on a Friday afternoon of what feels like a lost week in what is turning out to be a lost year. Anyone reading this in June of 2020 will completely understand why. Time seems

Weeknotes #2228 - What is time anymore?
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The Bizarre Story of Nefertiti, Copyrights & 3D cultural data

I've been following with keen interest this story re: 3D scans of an Egyptian bust at the Neues Museum in Berlin. In 2016 two artists seemingly smuggled a scanning rig into the museum, took a 3D digital image of the bust, and then sent 3D printed replicas back

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Staging the next thing

Moving onto the next thing.

Staging the next thing
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Hybrid naysayers

This link was posted in 2006, when I owned a Prius  * Hybrid Naysayers

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10 more

Only ten to twelve more to take care of and then I’ll be back(?) in the game. Yes. I’m alive. No. I’m nothing close to sure.

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Soon.

At some point I’ll add SOMETHING interesting to this site (like, perhaps, more of a… how you say… “Design?”) or “content?” bleh.