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Welcome to Aeaea, the sister site to Code Mammoth. If Code Mammoth is all about the practice of design, information technology, and robotics, then Aeaea is about the theory. This is the personal site of John Barbour, faculty at the University of Colorado Boulder. I have a strong commitment to ethical, sustainable, cradle-to-cradle design, as well as disruptive ideas I find likely to change the future for the better.
It’s pronounced ee-EE’ah. Learn about Aeaea in Greek mythology and why I chose this tongue-tying moniker.
Here you will find the syllabus and readings for my Maymester 2012 course in technology and society at the University of Colorado Boulder. Continue Reading →
The buildings of the coming age should be robots; not all of them all at once, not everywhere all at once, but as soon as possible and in as many places as practicable. Furthermore, they should be narrowly AI, cradle-to-cradle, highly automated robots. Perhaps this is an extraordinary position, and I can provide no extraordinary evidence to support it, not yet. It is a hypothesis, a thesis worth testing against ecological, economic, and ethical concerns. I mean to test it during the coming decade. Continue Reading →
In what ways has our system of education entered into both a risk, and a need, for disruption?
My dictionary defines an entrepreneur as:
A person who organizes and manages any enterprise, especially a business, usually with considerable initiative and risk.
This seems all wrong.