Sunday, May 28, 2023

What makes culture so fascinating?

I’ve always been fascinated by culture. I’m not sure what I find so appealing about the whole idea. Personally I've always been more attracted to fringe and subcultures, things that are a bit odd, outside of the mainstream. I wonder what it is exactly that I find so fascinating.

There is something magical and mysterious about culture, but also re-assuringly imprecise, like drifting clouds or bubbles in an enormous lava lamp. You can interact with it. It’s a highway for your imagination, but it’s massively multiplayer.

You don’t even need an internet connection, it’s an infinite World Wide Web with no boundaries, hosted entirely in our brains, distributed peer-to-peer, no wires or transmitters required.

It’s like invisible super high level software, it doesn’t exist, but it does.

Reviving a Dinosaur - The Silicon Graphics community is attempting to bring Irix back to life. We had several Irix based machines at the vfx places I worked, usually because of how well they worked with very large XFS file systems. I even got sent on an Irix training course at one point, and later visited the SGI UK offices to do some software demos. It felt like a place with a lot of computing history. I think they also had a VR cave there. I hope they reach their funding goal! tedium.co #

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