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Want to see an orchestra of printers and modems play a Dylan classic? This way...

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Date
6 November 2012

Sometimes decisions about what to post is based on in-depth reading around a project, at other times we’re pretty much hooked right away. So an orchestra of re-programmed modems, copiers and printers playing The Times They Are A-Changing (on this of all days as America goes to the polls)? Yes please. Chris Cairns’ spot for Brother is fun, technologically impressive and tight enough to pull of an ambitious idea. It’s what Dylan would have wanted…

A close-up of the internal components of a hard drive. A metal actuator arm rests over a series of reflective, circular platters.
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Chris Cairns/Partizan: Scrapheap Symphony (still)

A collection of vintage grey computers, printers and servers arranged on a white floor. Cables snake across the ground, connecting the hardware in a sprawling network.
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Chris Cairns/Partizan: Scrapheap Symphony (still)

Rows of small, white electronic devices sit on a dark surface. Tiny green lights glow from the side of each unit.
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Chris Cairns/Partizan: Scrapheap Symphony (still)

Two grey, vintage computer printers sit side by side on a white surface. Both machines have their paper trays open, with cables trailing across the floor.
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Chris Cairns/Partizan: Scrapheap Symphony (still)

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Rob Alderson

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Rob Alderson is a freelance writer, editor and strategist. He was previously editor-in-chief of It’s Nice That and WePresent, and editor of Design Week. He publishes the newsletter Undo, which tries to make sense of how AI is changing design work, the design process and the design industry.

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