not

v http://burundi.sk/dusan/carrythatweight/images/3/30/Lev_Manovich_-_Software_Takes_Command_%282008%29.txt

The computer programs for example which calculate the credit line of checking accounts or control medical instruments in an emergency station can’t be meaningfully called “media”.

algorithmic vs digitized
Contrary to conventional data like digitized images, sound and text documents,
the algorithmic instruction code allows a generative process.
It uses computers for computation,
not only as storage and transmission media.
And this precisely distinguishes program code from
non-algorithmic digital code,
describing for example the difference between algorithmic composition on the one hand and
audio CDs/mp3 files on the other,
between algorithmically generated text and
“hypertext’,
or between a graphical computer “demo” and
a video tape.

A piano score, even a 19th century one, is software when its instruction code can be executed by a human pianist as well as on a player piano.
~ software can be executed by humans, not only by computers

Literature is a conceptual art in that is not bound to objects and sites, but only to language.. Since formal language is a language, software can be seen and read as a literature.

gabika pise ze problem venterovho genetickeho softveru nie su ani tak potvorky ako
mutacie umelej DNA v novom organizme..
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http://respekt.ihned.cz/zkumavka/c1-43726410-craig-venter-nestvoril-umely-zivot

http://www.rozhlas.cz/zpravy/vedatechnika/_zprava/736218

tak ak to spravne chapem, tak to az take hrozive nebude…uvidime, ako to bude pokracovat dalej, pretoze je fakt, ze vacsina zlozitejsich organizmov ma systemy, ktore odmietaju cudzie molekuly….a nicia ich.
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ono to tak z laickeho pohladu vyzera k podobnym ‘vynalezom’
sa postupne nevyhnutne dostaneme…ak s tym nepride venter,
tak niekto iny, ze? otazka je teda asi najma ako sa to da
vseliak zneuzit a ako bude flexibilna legislativa ohladom
prevencie rizik… hmm…. alebo?

> no, musim povedat, ze mna to celkom vydesilo, ked som sa to
> dozvedela….ani nie tak kvoli nejakym potvorkam, ale skor kvoli tomu, ze
> nikdy nevies, ako sa ten organizmus zacne branit zasahu do vlastneho
> DNA….
> moc informacii o tom nepreniklo, tak vlastne ani neviem, do ktorej fazy
> DNA zasiahli, alebo co modifikovali, ale urcite to moc pozitivne nie
> je….
>
> oni sa brania tym, ze sa budu dat liecit rozne druhy ochoreni, rakovin a
> podobne…ale neviem, neviem, do akej miery to su schopny strazit, aby
> nedochadzalo spatne k mutaciam tej DNA….
>
> uvidime, ake info este pustia….este skusim zistit viac…
>
> ale bat sa zatial nemusis, len hrat sa na ” Panov Bohov” je niekedy
> zradne…
>
> ale uvidime…..zatial mozes spavat kludne….
>>
>> pocuj vcera preletela mediami ta sprava, ze venterovmu timu
>> sa podarilo replikovat umelo syntetizovanu dna…
>> napriklad
>> http://veda.sme.sk/c/5385405/vedci-asi-stvorili-umely-zivot.html
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_and_environment/10132762.stm
>>
>> akurat mi stale neni moc jasne co z toho vyplyva…
>> bude zle? alebo sa to tyka len nejakych pre smrtelnika
>> nepovsimutelnych veci, napr ze ide o malu vedecku epizodku?
>> alebo ze postupne ked to vymakaju tak budu vediet ‘programovat’
>> nejake male organizmy, ktore sa v hejnach budu prehanat
>> labakmi pripadne aj mimo nich?
>>

as architect consider “software” of space (sounds, smell, light, temperature, electromagnetic fields, social relationships, etc) rather than “hardware” (floors, walls, roof, etc) | The City… takes everything explored in Everyware as a given, and a point of departure | not just a social networking project for sensor data | emphasis on contextually specific “environments” rather than object-centric “sensors” | Extended Environments Markup Language (EEML) | backend capable of handling millions of users | internet of things | technologies of “extreme connectivity” | ‘eco-system’ of conversant devices, buildings & environments

Pachube evolved out three strands of thought:
1) the geographical non-specificity of architecture these days as people live their lives in constant connection with people in remote spaces
2) a desire to open up the production process of “smart homes” in reaction to current trends for placing the design and construction process solely in the hands of knowledgeable others.
3) an emphasis on contextually specific “environments” rather than object-centric “sensors”
– environment is a construction process and not a medium; nor is it a state or an entity
– one of the major failings of the usual ubicomp approach is to consider the connectivity and technology at the object-level, rather than at the environment-level. It’s built into much of contemporary Western culture to be object-centric, but at the level of “environment” we talk more about context, about disposition and subjective experience.

I asked Bruce Sterling to be a “visionary” adviser because he was one of the people early on to envisage the concepts and ramifications of “spimes” (his neologism for ’space-time objects’). While I agree that “spimes” are directly relevant, what I found most important from his conception was the concept of “wrangling” – being actively and productively engaged and responsible in the development of spimed environments. I think it was a crucial leap: to talk about “wranglers” rather than “end-users”.

Google, says its chief executive, Eric Schmidt, is “a company that’s founded around the science of measurement,” and it is striving to “systematize everything” it does. Drawing on the terabytes of behavioral data it collects through its search engine and other sites, it carries out thousands of experiments a day, according to the Harvard Business Review, and it uses the results to refine the algorithms that increasingly control how people find information and extract meaning from it. What Taylor did for the work of the hand, Google is doing for the work of the mind.

The idea that our minds should operate as high-speed data-processing machines is not only built into the workings of the Internet, it is the network’s reigning business model as well. The faster we surf across the Web—the more links we click and pages we view—the more opportunities Google and other companies gain to collect information about us and to feed us advertisements.
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google