Letters for Nothin' and your Books for Free

I wanted to point out a neat project that my pal Andy is doing over on Joi Ito's land with a few of his friends: The Literature Factory.



(disclaimer: Andy is an associate at my company, and I have, from time to time, given some feedback on the factory itself.)

What's neat about the literature factory is that it's a project done for pure art and joke value. Large letter-crunching cylinders spell out words in real-time, verify them on a real dictionary look-up, sort them by grammatical use, and then form sentences into books. The whole process is overseen by autonomous robots (cute prim-bots with movement pathing AI, and no real other scripting).

Yeah, it's a farce. But why not? It beats 1000 monkeys banging away on typewriters. Maybe this is the modern day equivalent?

The opening is Saturday night, if you're interested in a gathering, but you can visit anytime at the Literature Factory at Kula 2 (189,9,25).