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...roof deck. Go club-hopping in the Alley. Read FM. Wear your retainer. Make art. Attend Eliot Fête. Write a thesis. Go sake bombing at Takemura. Throw someone a surprise party. Watch Lady Gaga in concert. Quit a student organization. Pass out in a pizza parlor. Invent new slang. Smile a lot. Laugh at yourself. Keep in touch. Ninety-nine. One hundred...
...Innovation Challenge—an annual competition that began three years ago as a partnership between Harvard Student Agencies, the Technology and Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard, and the Harvard College Entrepreneurship Forum—encourages business ventures across all disciplines, and challenges students to “imagine, invent, and impact,” according to the competition’s Web site...
...realize that it exists as a problem and that we've accomplished already. People are saying: 'we do need this change. We do want to have a different state. We do want to fight corruption.' How do you do that? I think here we don't have to invent the wheel. For example, there are some things we can do which modern technology allows us to do, which makes things much easier. For example: putting every single signature of a public servant, from a minister to the local civil servant on the web, so that people can see where their...
Back to the Future Steve Jobs didn't invent the tablet computer. In the past 10 years, practically every serious PC company has shipped one. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, a man impervious to the lessons of history, arrived at the Consumer Electronics Show (the Comdex de nos jours) in January waving yet another Windows tablet, this one made by Hewlett-Packard. But nobody has ever gotten the marketplace to pay attention. The tablet computer is like a siren that calls seductively to computer engineers, only to wreck them fatally on the stony coast of our total lack of interest...
...world and elsewhere; however, at this point, I have to think about it as being a little adolescent. Of course, we want to be free on some level from institutional constraints and not only institutional but social determination. Art is a space of freedom where you can invent yourself and the world. [But] artists can’t invent meaning themselves. What works come to mean and how they exist in the marketplace and history is external to our control. That for me was the radical recognition now associated with institutional critique. If one thinks of this in this manner...