SpaceCollective

Fuller was asked to design the structure from the city of East St. Louis. Old Man's River City would have been a truly massive housing project for the city's 70,000 residents. The total capacity of the building, a circular multi-terraced dome, would be 125,000 occupants. Each family would have approximately 2500 square feet of living space.

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting.
We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

Bucky

Moreover, the very concept of the individual, as currently understood, depends on the difference in interconnectivity. Once this difference changes, i.e. internal states of the nervous system are becoming increasingly accessible, our very notion of privacy, privileged access, cognitive liberty and individuality should be reassessed.

...bottom line is that in the future the very definition of individuality will probably be derived not from the arbitrary conditions of one’s biological makeup, but rather how one is connected and to what. The degree of individuation will depend on difference in interconnectivity and this will become the subject matter of our ethical debate...

From Spaceweaver's My cranium is open source

AquaJelly is an artificial autonomous jellyfish with an electric drive and an intelligent, adaptive mechanical system. AquaJelly consists of a translucent hemisphere and eight tentacles used for propulsion. At the centre of the AquaJelly is a watertight, laser-sintered pressure vessel. This comprises a central, electric drive, two lithium-ion-polymer batteries, the charge control device and the servo motors for the swashplate.

... though not clear where I am being led. She, however, has no doubts... plays along... treads on...

Interventions in individual memory and cognitive functions enabled by technology, seem inevitable. However in the question of privacy and security, the same technologies that create the problem are also those that will offer solutions. Mental firewalls, external secure storage of experiential memories. Sensory and cognitive filters interfaced to the brain are already in the horizon.

Aldous Huxley via dmitridb:
"It is perfectly possible for a man to be out of prison, and yet not free — to be under no physical constraint and yet to be a psychological captive, compelled to think, feel and act as the representatives of the national state, or of some private interest within the nation, wants him to think, feel and act. The nature of psychological compulsion is such that those who act under constraint remain under the impression that they are acting on their own initiative. The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free. That he is not free is apparent only to other people. His servitude is strictly objective."

AnyMeta: anything is a thing

A group of bees went to work building a hive, layer by layer. The work takes from two to ten days, depending on the weather, the season, the size of the colony, and the colony’s need to expand. It took one week and approximately forty thousand bees to complete this particular honeycomb vase.

e-Fashion Day: learn & play with new electric designer materials (a 1-day workshop with Leah Buechley on the uses of new electric designer materials in e-Fashion and wearables.)

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

—Aldous Huxley

"Early 1800's flap-illustration by Alexander Ramsay made for his lectures in New England, Southern USA and Canada a hundred years before Schwitters and Dada."

Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.

Jorge Luis Borges via rene:

In my post SpaceCollective’s Grand Narrative
I mentioned that all the world’s books gathered in the digital domain will take up no more than 26 terabyes of disc space which can be contained on a bookshelf barely big enough to hold all 32 volumes that make up the Encyclopedia Britannica. By contrast, online competitor Wikipedia, whose content was generated in just a few years, contains 1 billion more words and can be accessed anytime and anywhere from a database stored on invisible servers. And despite being a paean to printed culture, the stacks of Seattle’s library hold only 780.000 books, all of which can be easily contained on an external hard drive that you can find on sale right now for $399 at your local department store. Read more...

holgerlippmann: "Fyre is a tool for producing computational artwork based on histograms of iterated chaotic functions. At the moment, it implements the Peter de Jong map in a fixed-function pipeline with an interactive GTK+ frontend and a command line interface for easy and efficient rendering of high-resolution, high quality images."

Spaceweaver in The Homo Mechanicus: "Suppose your computer could do your work without input from you, and suppose this computer could be replicated indefinitely to fill a whole universe, all the replicants meticulously doing your work, only your work. Would you like to be a resident of such a universe? How would you feel about it in the long term?"