Henry Cooke
@prehensile
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senior producer, creative technlologist, researcher // art wrangling @emfcamp // mental health first aider @mhfaengland // @[email protected]
Manchester, UK
Joined November 2006
Had a great time hosting the brilliant @prehensile from @BBCRD to speak to my students at @ual_cci! It was fascinating to hear about the diverse range of work he has been involved in over the years and his exciting new role in foresight.
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Appreciate @prehensile and the @BBCRD crew for getting me involved with their new report exploring potential futures and what emergent technologies may contribute to these alternative timelines https://t.co/TQTUbufWIg
bbc.co.uk
R&D's Advisory Team publishes its first foresight report, evaluating future technologies and trends.
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Over in the day job, the @bbcrd Advisory Team has just published a really fascinating piece of research into tech trends, with the great title 'Things are not normal' h/t to @prehensile, the main author and cat juggler.
bbc.co.uk
R&D's Advisory Team publishes its first foresight report, evaluating future technologies and trends.
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Now I find someone else needing the same advice, is there still a copy of that presentation online anywhere? Or just that slide?
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A group of San Franciscans realized that they can disable Waymo and Cruise robotaxis by placing a traffic cone on the vehicle's hood. They're now encouraging others to do it: "Hell no, we do not consent to this."
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Twitter revealed its algorithm to the world. But what does it mean for you? I spent the evening analyzing it. Here’s what you need to know:
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Sundays loiter was chilly but warm hearted. We wandered through science, magick, bollards, bulbs, civil war, absent landlords, mushrooms, internet tangles and more, ending at one of Mcrs finest haunts Cask. All welcome to join us next month. Also fantastic to meet @GillMPhoto.
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4/5 Our initial findings showed sharing a digital space improves the feeling of togetherness. However we had introduce what we call "shared history" to make this work asynchronously. It's inspired by how offices work and you can read more on the website
rig.rd.labs.bbc
We introduce the idea of a shared history to link users not just in space but also in time for the purpose of remote togetherness
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1. BASIC 2. Perl 3. PHP 4. Javascript 5. Lingo 6. Actionscript 7. Processing 8. Python 9. Objective-C 10. C# Plus a bit of C++, Java, Lua, C etc
in what order did you learn your languages? 1. python 2. R 3. haskell 4. C 5. rust 6. scheme 7. {java,type}script 8. clojure 9. scala 10. java 11. idris 12. go
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that scene out of every contagion thriller where they’re desperately tracking patient zero except it’s with a toddler and fox poo
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@prehensile @FreddieSWatkins Thank you friend!!! We're live here:
kickstarter.com
A post-post-apocalyptic technomancer zine RPG, played using books from your shelf and custom bookmarks.
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This is today! And looks great, nice work @AndrewJohnMarks & @FreddieSWatkins
HOOOO, I’m launching a @Kickstarter tomorrow with one of my bestest friends @freddieswatkins. It’s a #zinequest #TTRPG where players wield books off their shelf as if they were spellbooks. Follow here to get pinged when we launch:
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@prehensile You mean this? https://t.co/SiYVUaNTnC it's not bad, but getting the English right is pretty tricky.
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