I want one of these machines – or at least online access. I spent lots of time with this – thinking of the creative possibilities while taking too many photos. My excogitating mind working overtime… Julius von Bismarck & Benjamin Maus have created the Perpetual Storytelling Machine that creates a narrative through access to and the use of nearly 8 million patent drawings coupled with an archive of over 22 million references. It appears to be capable of mechanically free-associating – creating a form of subtext by finding possible similarities between arbitrary patents thereby producing contextural information in which a lateral thinking person can use for creative ideas.
(thanks to allesblinkt)