I will use an iPad game called Dark Echo to exemplify the affordances and constraints in design principles. Dark Echo is one of the most amazing puzzle games I encountered for years. Basically, it’s a two-dimensional escape game. It orchestrates both simplicity and complexity, demonstrating many design principles explicitly.[……]
I’d like to talk about abacus—an ancient cognitive artifact that is still widely used in China. I began learning abacus to do arithmetic since I was six and interestingly, as time went on, there emerged a virtual abacus in my mind every time I need to calculate, which directly manifests the ideal-material-duality of artifacts mentioned by John Dewey, Marx, and Hegel.[……]
In addition to the conflict between machine automation and human’s skills, Markoff discussed the relationship between AI and Intelligence Augmentation(IA) with me.[……]
I’m proud to present this special interview with Markoff, the world renowned technological reporter, Pulitzer-Prize-winning New York Times science writer, author of Machines of Loving Grace, and the conversation focuses on the trends of IT industry and technologies. [……]
A Macbook Bag handmade by me, using felt with a 5mm thickness and crazy horse leather. [……]
My handmade luggage tag using reddish brown calfskin.[……]
寄居蟹进化出了一种聪明绝顶的方法来互相换壳，对人类的资源分配或许有借鉴意义。[……]
一位从小失明的生物学家，用双手的触摸，勾勒出了海贝曼妙的形状与演化历史。[……]
译者诚意推荐：本书的世界观之宏大，仿佛让读者踏上一场横跨宇宙级时间和空间的奇幻之旅，穿梭于极小与极大的尺度之中。在醉心于宇宙之大的同时，却又不得不惊叹：人类才是整个宇宙中最难能可贵、最生机勃勃的诗篇。[……]
智人为何能成为地球的霸主？这位希伯来大学的历史学教授为世界呈现了一幅宏达的篇章，也造就了一本畅销全世界的科普书。[……]