Schmo is the personal website of Stuart Curran, a UK-based designer.

V'ger and Zuck

The origin story of facebook is a guy in his bedroom rating pictures of women.

That’s the one thing that facebook can never escape from.

Does this thing exist to add value to our world?

The plot of Star Trek: The Motion Picture revolves around a primitive space probe from earth that encounters a powerful machine intelligence. The probe’s simple mission is enabled and empowered in a way that it’s original creators could never have imagined, imperilling planet earth itself. But the day was saved when the positive intent of the probe’s original mission was re-established.

Facebook (or Facemash to use its original title) was a primitive website with a simple mission - to rate pictures of women. It encountered a powerful money machine that enabled and empowered it to continue its simple mission in ways its original creator imagined only in his adolescent fantasies, imperious over planet earth itself. There was no positive intent to Facebook’s original mission.

Spatial reasoning and economic spaces

Comics and IA revisited