Cole Webber

May We Make You A Mind?

2020

Private Press

In the near future, scientists develop a magic cure-all connective tissue, a thousand times more networked than a natural brain pathway. Injected in to the cranium like a botox shot, they claim it can accelerate human evolution: give access to new senses, new dimensions, new views of reality. Society splits along lines of perceived consciousness. An Upper-Therer returns from his self-imposed seclusion to those left behind, but why? What is different? Adopted Alexandria, left behind in old civilization, struggles to find out.

Watch Your Dreams on Television

2019

Private Press

Omninet is a charting of education as humans have always known and needed it, beyond schools, beyond teachers, beyond grades and beyond books. The deep-bellied ship, the printing press, the Catholic Church, the typewriter, the Suez Canal, and Morse code are all education instruments and technologies – the very ones which resulted in our schools and universities of today, which we have only known for a comparatively brief time. Examining Earth’s schools alongside its mobile phones, its libraries with its naval trade routes, Omninet deals with all of humanity’s information as one whole system, which we see is rapidly changing. We are now experiencing a change as significant as the advent of writing, as we transition to a new kind of record beyond the internet, a coalescing of technologies and social structures five thousand years in the making: the Omninet. What changes will this new technology cause to information, in turn cause to work, and in turn cause to the very idea of ‘education’?

Omninet

2018

Omninet is a charting of education as humans have always known and needed it, beyond schools, beyond teachers, beyond grades and beyond books. The deep-bellied ship, the printing press, the Catholic Church, the typewriter, the Suez Canal, and Morse code are all education instruments and technologies – the very ones which resulted in our schools and universities of today, which we have only known for a comparatively brief time. Examining Earth’s schools alongside its mobile phones, its libraries with its naval trade routes, Omninet deals with all of humanity’s information as one whole system, which we see is rapidly changing. We are now experiencing a change as significant as the advent of writing, as we transition to a new kind of record beyond the internet, a coalescing of technologies and social structures five thousand years in the making: the Omninet. What changes will this new technology cause to information, in turn cause to work, and in turn cause to the very idea of ‘education’?

Disneyland by Design

2018

Disneyland handles tens of thousands of visitors a day so well it seems like ‘magic’. As he built and rebuilt Disneyland, as he gathered funds and embarked upon his continuous improvement of technologies and plans, what lessons was Walt Disney learning? How can they be applied to the Disney parks – and elsewhere: schools, production facilities and places of gathering – today?