1. 5IT reader Antoine Wojdyla translated a 1985 Marguerite Duras interview in Les Inrocks about what she expected in the future. It is uncanny and disturbing to read amidst CES wearable hype.

"In the 2000s, there will be only answers. The demand will be such that there will only be answers. All texts will be answers, in fact. I believe that man will be literally drowned in information, in constant information. About his body, his corporeal future, his health, his family life, his salary, his leisure. It’s not far from a nightmare. There will be nobody reading anymore. They will see television. We will have screens everywhere, in the kitchen, in the restrooms, in the office, in the streets. Where will we be? When we watch television, where are we? We’re not alone."

2. Transferring drone technology to Guyanese people, so they can monitor the rainforest.

"Drones can rapidly create high-resolution up-to-date imagery at a fraction of the cost of satellite imagery. In Guyana we are working with the Wapichana people to help them monitor a vast territory of 7 million acres of savannah and rainforest. We saw the potential for drones to monitor and map deforestation, from mapping the changing size of bush islands on the savannah to catching illegal logging deep in the forest. We didn’t want to just fly into Guyana and fly a drone over the local villages. Our interest was whether this technology could be something that can be used and controlled by the communities themselves, and become a tool of empowerment for helping them have more of a say in their own future. We wanted the Wapichana to be able to repair it themselves, fly it themselves, and process the images to use for their own means."

3. The global city against the nation.

"Like most groups of innovating social scientists, they defined themselves by what they were against. They argued that nation-states, with their predefined boundaries, were not the natural, quasi-biological containers of social, cultural, economic and political life. The city would come to play a crucial role in this conceptual liberation, for it allowed the new urbanists to break radically with the ‘methodological nationalism’ of yesteryear. The geographers could bypass the national by simultaneously conceiving the local and the global in a relation of mutual co-dependency."

4. DEMOs are probably due for a museum retrospective.

"The old-school DEMO was a piece of custom software code and content that crackers would write and attach to the boot sector of a pirated software title floppy. The software would execute as soon as the floppy booted on a computer and would display a page attributing the cracker crew's alias names. Short, cute, and catchy aliases akin to the ones used in Hip Hop culture. Names like The Intern, First Class, MPG, Desert Storm, DJ Clue and The 2-live Crew. After a few seconds delay, the DEMO and the 'legitimate' original title would start up."

5. Insert hand into box. Watch it become part of the digital world.

"The installation, as premiered at the 2014 Cinekid festival, invited visitors to interact with the software by inserting their hand into a ‘box’ constructed to provide an alternative (interactive) view of their hand. The accompanying large scale projection displays the dynamic and structural transformations affecting the hand, and the system works even with visitors who wiggle their fingers, or who move and turn their hand... About twenty different transformations or scenes have been developed for the project. Some of these perform structural edits to the hand’s archetypal form; others endow the hand with new dimensions of plasticity; and others imbue the hand with a kind of autonomy, whose resulting behavior is a dynamic negotiation between visitor and algorithm."

daemon. This spelling, instead of demon, is to distinguish Greek mythology senses of supernatural being, indwelling spirit, &c., from the modern sense of devil.

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