Comments on: MIT Propose A Digital Cloud for London http://digitalcortex.net/culture/design/mit-proposes-digital-cloud-for-london-2012/ thoughts on media, pop-culture, technology & the future Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:59:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Tom Saunterhttp://digitalcortex.net/culture/design/mit-proposes-digital-cloud-for-london-2012/#comment-4544 Tom Saunter Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:16:41 +0000 http://digitalcortex.net/?p=1936#comment-4544 I guess it means space without corners - right?An interesting idea: To us, a cube represents the most efficient shape, because you can stack lots of them very closely to each other with minimal space wasted e.g. the Japanese development of cubic watermelons.To nature, a sphere is the most efficient shape, because energy is evenly distributed across it's entire surface e.g. the naturally forming shape of a bubble, as response to equal pressure on all sides.Thoughts on this? I guess it means space without corners – right?

An interesting idea:
To us, a cube represents the most efficient shape, because you can stack lots of them very closely to each other with minimal space wasted e.g. the Japanese development of cubic watermelons.

To nature, a sphere is the most efficient shape, because energy is evenly distributed across it’s entire surface e.g. the naturally forming shape of a bubble, as response to equal pressure on all sides.

Thoughts on this?

]]> By: Tom Saunterhttp://digitalcortex.net/culture/design/mit-proposes-digital-cloud-for-london-2012/#comment-8043 Tom Saunter Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:16:00 +0000 http://digitalcortex.net/?p=1936#comment-8043 I guess it means space without corners - right?An interesting idea: To us, a cube represents the most efficient shape, because you can stack lots of them very closely to each other with minimal space wasted e.g. the Japanese development of cubic watermelons.To nature, a sphere is the most efficient shape, because energy is evenly distributed across it's entire surface e.g. the naturally forming shape of a bubble, as response to equal pressure on all sides.Thoughts on this? I guess it means space without corners – right?

An interesting idea:
To us, a cube represents the most efficient shape, because you can stack lots of them very closely to each other with minimal space wasted e.g. the Japanese development of cubic watermelons.

To nature, a sphere is the most efficient shape, because energy is evenly distributed across it’s entire surface e.g. the naturally forming shape of a bubble, as response to equal pressure on all sides.

Thoughts on this?

]]> By: Tomhttp://digitalcortex.net/culture/design/mit-proposes-digital-cloud-for-london-2012/#comment-4541 Tom Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:04:52 +0000 http://digitalcortex.net/?p=1936#comment-4541 I gotta get me one of them 'radically new non-Cartesian method[s] of spacial awareness'.Who the hell came up with that? I gotta get me one of them ‘radically new non-Cartesian method[s] of spacial awareness’.

Who the hell came up with that?

]]> By: Tomhttp://digitalcortex.net/culture/design/mit-proposes-digital-cloud-for-london-2012/#comment-8042 Tom Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:04:00 +0000 http://digitalcortex.net/?p=1936#comment-8042 I gotta get me one of them 'radically new non-Cartesian method[s] of spacial awareness'.Who the hell came up with that? I gotta get me one of them ‘radically new non-Cartesian method[s] of spacial awareness’.

Who the hell came up with that?

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