Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Life Imitates Art at Intel

Posted by michael on from the ships-passing-in-the-night dept.

figa writes "Eric Paulos and Elizabeth Goodman at Intel's Research Laboratory at Berkeley are using the Situationists' exploration of urban space and psychologist Stanley Milgram's social experiments to design wearable devices."

1 of 90 comments (clear)

  1. Guy Debord... by br00tus · · Score: 4, Insightful
    ...is rolling in his fucking grave.

    The Situationists made the powers-that-be so nervous, that when they helped catalyze the revolt in 1968 that had virtually every blue collar worker in France on strike, it was the French Communist Party that ultimately had to put it down.

    You can be sure Debord would put a gun to his head before doing R&D for the Intel corporation. In his last book, he said he feared the spectacle would try to integrate even his ideas in some borg-like fashion, and thus he had to be even more cryptic than he already was. It seems his fears have come true. Paulos is spectacular all the way.