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Why am I so reluctant to add Taylor Swift on Tumblr? I mean, realistically, what could happen? I find myself enjoying her musings and prim, constructed, photos? I find myself agreeing with some of her thoughts, ideas, beliefs?

In past projects, work from MIT Media always inspires me a lot. They manage various technological related projects and redefine the use of technology in a very creative way.

These are the briefs that I'm interested in from their website: 

Affective Computing

How new technologies can help people better communicate, understand, and respond to affective information.

Camera Culture

How to create new ways to capture and share visual information.

Fluid Interfaces

How to integrate the world of information and services more naturally into our daily physical lives, enabling insight, inspiration, and interpersonal connections.

High-Low Tech

How to engage diverse audiences in creating their own technology by situating computation in new contexts and building tools to democratize engineering.

Human Dynamics

How social networks can influence our lives in business, health, and governance, as well as technology adoption and diffusion.

Information Ecology

How to create seamless and pervasive connections between our physical environments and information resources.

Object-Based

Media How sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies can change everyday life, the ways in which we communicate with one another, storytelling, and entertainment.

Opera of the Future (!!)

How musical composition, performance, and instrumentation can lead to innovative forms of expression, learning, and health.

Responsive Environments

How sensor networks augment and mediate human experience, interaction, and perception.

Tangible Media

3D Printing becomes more and more familiar to people now, but I don't really feel happy when there is news like:

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I can't see the reason why Tesco should offer 3D printer in their stores. Will people really go there and print something then pay for it? I mean, if you go to a supermarket for buying daily life stuffs, why you will need 3D printer?

Then I found a comment under this article, which I really agree with:

Could they offer 2D printing service first? I found it very hard to print something when I don't have printer at home and I don't want to go to office/library. It will be good if there is online print service that connect to the supermarket. The print service is too pricy now in high street shops.

(it's a comment from Chinese website)