Category Posts for'france'
French Retro Futurism From 1920
Retro-Futurism is looking back to a time when they foresee the future somewhat differently to how it panned out.
By now of course we should all have flying cars and video phones and live in peace and harmony. TV programmes like Tomorrows World from the 1970s envisaged us living in a plastic furnished world, usually in white. Of course things never turn up quite as people imagine them- we’re not quite in Orwell’s dystopian 1984 or some other’s utopia but somewhere in between and not living in a Bladerunner type world.
The linked site has a number of French illustrations from 1910 on how they thought the world of 2000 might look like. Some ideas seem positively quaint and we now know them to be dangerous- eg heating with radium!
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Posted: September 17th, 2007 under 30 seconds, art, culture, france, visualisations.
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Go Influence Simulator
Canut Ki In is a Go club in Lyons, France and they have a website. The website is (quell surprise!) in French though if you go to google and click language tools you can view it in a reasonably translated English.
Go is the board game from East Asia (both Japan and China) and is easy to play but very hard to master. One of the key concepts of the game is zones of influence and this site has an simulator that demonstrates this. There is also a more dynamic version here, where every click puts down a black piece then a white piece. Interesting stuff and if you are learning to play, you might find this of interest.
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Posted: July 14th, 2007 under france, game, simulator.
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