Henry Cooke

senior producer, creative technlologist, researcher // art wrangling @emfcamp // mental health first aider @mhfaengland // @[email protected]

[Henry Cooke @prehensile]

mostly elsewhere these days

[Henry Cooke @prehensile]

@changeist this, from @broderick’s latest Garbage Day reminds me of the interview we did for Projections. I think you may even have used the word ‘slop’

[Irtiza Nasar @irtizanasar]

Had a great time hosting the brilliant @prehensile from @BBCRD to speak to my students at @ual_cci! It was fascinating to hear about the diverse range of work he has been involved in over the years and his exciting new role in foresight.

[Henry Cooke @prehensile]

@jarkman the next one's in February, come!

[Henry Cooke @prehensile]

@lexmakesthings @BBCRD I realised the other day that the quote on the front and the final interview quote in the whole thing are both from you — we are bookended by your wisdom 😄

[lex fefegha @lexfefegha]

Appreciate @prehensile and the @BBCRD crew for getting me involved with their new report exploring potential futures and what emergent technologies may contribute to these alternative timelines

https://t.co/TQTUbufWIg

[Bill Thompson @billt]

Over in the day job, the @bbcrd Advisory Team has just published a really fascinating piece of research into tech trends, with the great title 'Things are not normal' h/t to @prehensile, the main author and cat juggler. https://t.co/dYYJRcAMUi

[Simone Natale @simone_natale]

I'm giving a keynote at @AcmIcmi tomorrow. Great occasion to be at a conference I wouldn't usually attend and learn about research in Human-Computer Interaction and robotics #ICMI2023

[Henry Cooke @prehensile]

@BBC6Music @laurenlaverne KITCHEN RAVE

[Henry Cooke @prehensile]

@mumoss reminds me of one of my favourite quotes about design, by Eliel Saarinen, an architect:

Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context – a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.

cc @cabel

[Henry Cooke @prehensile]

@hhulbert I think you have to dance now

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@cyberdees @GreatDismal mate, this book is a large part of the reason my wardrobe tends to the logo-free. Also really made me want a powermac cube

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@wefail heh. with a little internet sleuthing, I found it! And it's still somehow playable! 2023, man. This is quite a nostalgia trip.

[Henry Cooke @prehensile]

@wefail hello! many years ago you did a presentation which had a slide in it that said "it's only the internet, nobody lives or dies". I printed that out and stuck it to the wall above my desk.

[Henry Cooke @prehensile]

Now I find someone else needing the same advice, is there still a copy of that presentation online anywhere? Or just that slide?

[David Zipper @DavidZipper]

A group of San Franciscans realized that they can disable Waymo and Cruise robotaxis by placing a traffic cone on the vehicle's hood.

They're now encouraging others to do it: "Hell no, we do not consent to this."

[Henry Cooke @prehensile]

@mr_dudders tbh I’d probably just go with factstory, but I do love a painfully laboured pun

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@mr_dudders The Ministry of Truthiness

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@9600 @jonty In Jonty’s original case, I very strongly suspect that you’d want some kind of remote twiddling device and to be standing a long way away