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Machinery of Grace – The Spectator

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Shakir Mohamed | 1345 words (~14mins). Will link to video and slides once it’s ready. for TEDxLSTM: Unknown Destinations Dearest, Dearest, note how these two are alike: This harpsichord pavan…

Shakir Mohamed | 1345 words (~14mins) . Will link to video and slides once it's ready. for TEDxLSTM : Unknown Destinations Dearest, Dearest, note how these two are alike: This harpsichord pavane by Purcell And the racer’s twelve-speed bike. The machinery of grace is always simple. These are the opening lines from a poem entitled Machines by Michael Donaghy. For us here today, I hope they will foment questions of what it is to design, build and use machines-with-grace. The machines I’m thinking of are not the mechanical turks and automata of old. Instead, they are a new type of machine that is

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