2012-04-04
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Queen of Swords: Drones, from the Hexen 2.0 Tarot deck by Suzanne Treister:
HEXEN 2.0 looks into histories of scientific research behind government programmes of mass control, investigating parallel histories of countercultural and grass roots movements. HEXEN 2.0 charts, within a framework of post-WWII U.S. governmental and military imperatives, the coming together of scientific and social sciences through the development of cybernetics, the history of the internet, the rise of Web 2.0 and increased intelligence gathering, and implications for the future of new systems of societal manipulation towards a control society.
Hexen 2.0 is on show at the Science Museum, London, until 1 May 2012. (Thanks, Kevan.)
2010-09-09
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The ECKO television, the first British portable television receiver, 1955. Credit:Science Museum/Science & Society Picture Library
2010-05-15
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The Pilot ACE at the Science Museum. Actually seen at this BBC news story about the way the machine changed computing, but the version at Life is bigger. Photo: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images.
