Inner life: what makes computers wonderful

Every now and again something comes up and you think is insanely great. David Bolinsky’s inner life of a cell is just such a gob-smacking-jaw-dropping-beautiful-experience. I have always been a little skeptical about sci-art projects (are they about showing that geeks have souls or is it about sugar on what should be intrinsically interesting anyway?). However this transcends any objection I may have. If it had voice over instead of phone-hold-music it would really be a significant piece of learning media. There are more clips on YouTube

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_H1S9d5h-Ps]

There are many interesting parallels to something we explored in the early days of Futurelab and Drew Berry’s animation for the Channel 4 DNA series. We contemplated a game cell wars.

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  1. Martin G. Smith

    This was met at the Knowledge Seekers realm with ‘Get It!’ A regular response these days around here. When we stared on this adventure three months ago, who would have thought that a field of learning we had been told ‘Would not work’ would be so advanced, so pervasive [The new Buzz], and so inclusive of learners. I have to have the crew double shift just to keep up.
    Bias Declared.

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