"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."
"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."
Welcome back to the normal state of things, and I hope you had a splendid winter holiday. This week, we kick off in grand style by proposing a vision of the contemporary city as a porous collective where human and nonhuman actors participate in shared...
1. The Taste of Water In Dune, Frank Herbert imagined a desert planet called Arrakis, a world so arid that water itself becomes sacred. On its burning sands, the nomadic Fremen survive by recovering every possible drop of moisture from their bodies, air, and even the...
a.k.a. How the Laws of Robotics Foretold the Logic of Large Language Models Introduction – The Machine That Dreamed in Logic Everyone is familiar with the Three Laws of Robotics.They’ve seeped into our cultural bloodstream: quoted in tech conferences, invoked in ethics debates, even recycled in AI...
"The ISO 8000 series provides frameworks for improving data quality for specific kinds of data. The series defines which characteristics of data are relevant to data quality, specifies requirements applicable to those characteristics, and provides guidelines for improving data quality." An overview of the series and...
The City Beneath the City There are cities that dazzle with their surfaces, and others that live in the mind. Milan belongs to the latter kind, to me. Beneath its layers of glass, asphalt, and the relentless functionality everybody likes to boast, there lies another city:...
1. Introduction — The Paradox of Standards The dream of a digital commons is as old as the internet itself: a space where information flows freely across boundaries, where collaboration scales beyond organisations, and where knowledge becomes a shared infrastructure rather than a private asset. In...
I think it's plain to see that there are very few things being actually developed within Autodesk, right now. Revit needs a total rewrite (and it's not happening), Navisworks is a zombie crawling from version to version and it hasn't been updated in decades, and...
Introduction Whenever the term 4D-BIM is invoked, it usually comes with a promise of efficiency. Time, we are told, is simply the “fourth dimension” attached to the model: a neat schedule linked to geometry, a Gantt chart embedded in 3D space. In this view, 4D-BIM is...
Confession: My Brain, Too Many Tabs I should start with a confession: when it comes to multitasking, the general new trend is that it doesn't work and it should be avoided, and I've always pushed back on this notion for a very concrete reason. This reason...