There is no place like ether

Fondé en 2007 par Patrice Lacroix et Pascal Beauchesne, le LAB est la synergie réactive d’un collectif de talents en connaissance de la prochaine étape de la démocratisation des médias et du paysage des communications.

Étant à l’avant-garde et au courant des tendances à venir dans l’univers des communications, le LAB offre un service de recherche et développement (R&D) en communication afin d’élaborer des stratégies innovantes et révolutionnaires et en sensibilisant aux différentes innovations, des communications urbaines aux nouvelles technologies du monde numérique et interactif.

via The Lab Foundation.

Via Le club club.

Motorola’s first commercial cell phone cost $3,995

What’s so interesting is that nobody — including Motorola — thought the cell phone would be of much use to anyone. Because it was so big. Motorola’s real motivation in prototyping the cell phone, it turns out, was to get the FCC to allot more spectrum for car phones, which they saw as a lucrative market for their equipment-making business. But this is a fascinating R&D story — nobody thought they could pull it off. Well worth a read. And the photos are funny, too.

via Cell Phones of the Future Past – The Boston Globe.

Technologies, Media, and Representations in Nineteenth-Century France and England

A FQRSC-funded research team based at Université de Montréal, Concordia University, and McGill University

via Technologies, Media, and Representations in Nineteenth-Century France and England.

Foucault Archive.

Foucault info:

http://foucault.info/documents/