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A chronology of 3,585 references across art, science, technology, and culture
● 24/07/2025
“Over the last 10 years, we’ve seen a thousand ‘x’ increase in computational speed. Another thousand ‘x’ is projected in the next five years. Things will be very different when we do this in 2030.”
– Christie’s Ventures lead Devang Thakkar, striking an accelerationist tone in introducing the 10th Christie’s Art + Tech Summit. The two-day NYC gathering featured filmmaker Darren Aronofsky, digital artist Refik Anadol, Signal president Meredith Whittaker, and representatives from Apple, Microsoft, and Nvidia. [quote edited]
Christie’s
● 07/07/2025
“Tech companies, with their ‘Sovereignty as a Service’ offerings, are acting as arms dealers, encouraging the illusion of a race for sovereign control while being the true powers behind the scenes.”
– Tech policy researchers Kate Elizabeth Creasey, Suresh Venkatasubramanian, and Rui-Jie Yew, warning that emerging ‘sovereignty as a service’ (SaaS) products from Nvidia and Amazon Web Services mirror colonial infrastructure schemes.
Tech Policy Press
● 15/06/2025
“It’s MANGO now.”
– Graphic designer Jay Dwivedi, responding to another X user’s “what happened to FAANG?” query. His visual update of the acronym swaps Facebook for Meta and Netflix for Nvidia, and adds OpenAI, capturing Big Tech’s new AI-centric pecking order.
X / Twitter
● 09/08/2024
“Should we download the whole Netflix too? How could we operationalize this?”
– Nvidia VP of Research Ming-Yu Liu, flagrantly ignoring intellectual property rights in a leaked Slack message. Reportedly scraping videos from YouTube, Discovery, and IMDB as well, Nividia is the latest example of a Big Tech outfit strip mining copyrighted media to create a (monetizable) AI foundation model.
Proof
● 29/07/2022
“Paired together, you’d have nearly a whole kilowatt of power being sucked up by just the processor and graphics card. Everything else will absolutely push this system over the 1000W line.”
– TechRadar computing editor John Loeffler, on next-gen Nvidia and AMD circuits hogging energy. “Value and efficiency seem to have been completely thrown by the wayside, and that isn’t just a mistake, it’s increasingly unethical.”
TechRadar
● 12/04/2021
“I for one enjoy watching Mercedes Benz simulate the Autobahn. It’s the Kraftwerk in me.”
– Peter Kirn, musician and creative technologist, on NVIDIA’s GTC 2021 keynote, in which the GPU giant demonstrated how, for example, car manufacturers are training AIs for future robotic factories in the company’s simulation platform Omniverse. On his blog CDM, Kirn explains why these advanced enterprise applications are relevant for artists, too
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