commonplace log II: sense and actuate - by Andre

journals are singular in their ability to offer unmediated access to a person’s thought process, without abstraction or technical complexity or interruption by interface-speech an anthropologist living in 2204 writes. She is digging up the remains of material culture of the 2020s and finds traces of a hard drive. Thanks to futuristic scanning technology, she is able to reconstruct this hard drive down to the last bit, and therefore reconstruct its files, and the history of the lives told through these files. Hers is a story documented in the present by the earliest deployed version of commonplace, a digital journal that has high hopes for the medium in terms of how it can shape how we use and relate to digital systems. This story is also written as a birthday gift to Finn, discussions with whom inspired this project in the first place. Bringing an image from the “maybe its not so bad” podcast channel into your entry. Highly recommend this podcast by my dear friend Carla. Media, such as

journals are singular in their ability to offer unmediated access to a person’s thought process, without abstraction or technical complexity or interruption by interface-speech an anthropologist living in 2204 writes. She is digging up the remains of material culture of the 2020s and finds traces of a hard drive. Thanks to futuristic scanning technology, she is able to reconstruct this hard drive down to the last bit, and therefore reconstruct its files, and the history of the lives told through these files. Hers is a story documented in the present by the earliest deployed version of commonpl