In all, 56 "hacks" were conceived and built, many of which you can already try online.
"So many pavilions in so many different shapes and out of so many different materials have been conceived and built that we tried instinctively to sidestep the unavoidable problem of creating an object, a concrete shape".
The hotel – well, it's more like a little village really – was conceived and built in the 1980s by David and Lynn Cram, Canadians who were living on the island and making Windjammer clothing.
Take a 90-minute guided tour of the beautiful buildings, situated on the edge of Scottsdale, which were conceived and built by Wright back in the 1930s and still look like the cutting edge of design today.
It sounds technical – and it is – but actually Dyson's account of how the Von Neumann machine was conceived and built is a beautiful example of technological storytelling – as good, in its way, as Tracy Kidder's The Soul of a New Machine (about the creation of a Data General minicomputer) or Steven Levy's Insanely Great (which told the story of how the Apple Macintosh came to be).
One of the volunteer guides, who asked not to be named, added quietly: "I think we can agree Wolf Hall might be a mixed blessing!" Like most old houses, Hampton Court, celebrating its 500th birthday, has been much altered since it was conceived and built by Henry and cardinal Wolsey, which is why Wolf Hall had to use so many different locations in place of, or as well as, the originals.
So far, the applications that have been conceived and built during Glass' early hackathons have been promising, the Glass team said today.
