The island

The island in Midsummer Night’s Dream is intelligent, Caliban quiets his friends when they were frightened by it. The text here was taken and translated automatically many times over from English to German to English - a babel device created by Jonathan Feinberg - it produced new cadences to an ancient text.

This fear and love we have, our will assuaged by our private domain. Consciousness then exists in a place, as when you visit an apartment of someone recently died, their presence still rests there.
Marek Walczak

Windows

As interfaces mature into being windows onto the data feeds that people care about (e-mail, calendars, news) the varying degrees of consciousness or intelligence behind these feeds should be drawn to reflect varying degrees of self-directedness–evoking presences from table to refrigerator to TV to dog to phone to AI assistant: richer, more organic imagery to
represent richer data, plain imagery to evoke simple processes.
Brad Paley