The things that come closest to what I’d consider speculative tech is self-funded engineers working by themselves.
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@theartlav hacker-research program should really be a funded tech think tank with maybe a dozen people and a couple of support staff. I’d totally join up. There have been at least 2 attempts to build serious orgs around Artem that I know of. http://orbides.orgShow this thread -
If he were in the US instead of Russia it would probably already have happened.
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Bunch of design people seem to try to do things in Bret Victor mode, but I think of design research as a weird special case between tech proper and product research. Product labs aren’t quite what I’m thinking of.
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I know like a dozen solo self-funded engineers doing this sort of thing. Not very collegial types.
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It’s probably an unstable zone because people who would do interesting things in such a position would also be strongly tempted away by big job offers. So you’d want people who don’t care about money, or have really unemployable personalities to outweigh their talents.
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these are starting to emerge, like
@inkandswitch Which is like a group of self-funding engineers mostly ;)Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Interesting that you bring up art residencies, as I think a lot of artists are operating within a fantasy of postwar research labs. There's a cultural void there that captures imaginations, but seems like industry is still busy productizing postwar innovations
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Just got a notification about this one the other day:https://djerassi.org/apply/scientific-delirium-madness-2/ …
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For all the lipservice given to garage startups, "Let's use $10M to throw some of the brightest minds in a garage for a year, in non-precarious conditions, let them breathe and think and write, and see what happens" doesn't seem to garner much attention.
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