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The human species is rapidly and indisputably moving towards the technological singularity. The cadence of the flow of information and innovation in the infoverse demands a response. As hyperconnectivity increases, our minds are becoming progressively more coupled and cybernetically...
 
The human element of the future is an oft neglected subject, while Ray Kurzweil draws up graph...
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Is Language a Window into...
For a human, to be a human is to be immersed in language. To live the life of a human is to language. The emergence of a new language, is nothing less than the emergence of a new human being. These two must come together. When we change or invent a concept, a meaning relation, when we invent a word or a name that was not before, or we use a word...

From Spaceweaver
 
Here is an interesting introduction to the history of the concept of accelerating change, found...
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..we can define collaboration as the creation of a nexus, a ‘togetherness’ of occasions of experience, every actual entity...
From Wildcat
 
As life in our world becomes ever more complex, there is an ever increasing pressure on us to...
From Spaceweaver
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"We do not really know what the human being truly is today, although our awareness and...
From Spaceweaver
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#Polytopia-(the emergence of) - is a work/proposal in progress# We are called to be architects...
From Wildcat
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We have laid down the preliminary aspects, facets, and ramifications of the Polytopia. We have an...
From notthisbody
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The web cultural revolution Genius. Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving...
From Wildcat
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In Spacewaver’s recent post about the Singularity University he mentions a discussion concerning...
From rene
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In the first post on this series titled “futures as such” I wrote about the minds of futurists...
From Wildcat
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At the very core of being human, at the core of human social and cultural fabric lays the human...
From Spaceweaver
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If you like Fat-Boy Slim, it just makes this video even better. Great Stats. Excerpt:...
From EnLieux
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Besides an occasional landmark building, the cities we live in aren’t all that different from the...
From rene
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I have been reading with great interest and pleasure Rene's latest post bringing forth with...
From Spaceweaver
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The idea that change is a transitional phase between two stable states is ridiculed by everyday...
From jascharohr
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And yet the future is already in our midst; it is the extending tendrils of a past, laying ahead of...
From Xaos
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Two realms of self-enhancement In three(ish) parts: Introduction The concrete realm The...
From Robokku
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A Polytopia is Rhizomatic : ”Unlike the graphic arts, drawing or photography, unlike tracings, the rhizome pertains to a map...
From Wildcat
 
"The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the...
From Wildcat
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Dear friends and future Polytopians As the web progresses and hyperconnectivity increases, so do we; and we are thus happy to announce the creation of the Polytopia twitter group on Buzzable. If you feel that more connection and immediacy of contact is your thing, come and join us at: The Polytopia group on Buzzable Few notes: You...
From Wildcat
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The Signtific Lab is a public laboratory for developing and sharing cutting edge ideas about the...
From Wildcat
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The following is a scenario on how I think that a MetaTopos could manifest. AMOEB(OS)...
From notthisbody
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"A century ago, most of the world's premier observatories sat atop hills just a brisk walk from their home institutions. But no more. These days the Big Eyes of astronomy crown some of the most remote and hard-to-reach spots on Earth: from Mauna Kea in Hawaii to Cerro Pachón in to Chile to Las Palmas in the Canary Islands to Concordia...
From gamma
Paul Virilio "One of the major problems now facing political as well as military strategists is the phenomenon of immediacy, of instantaneity. For `real time' now takes precedence over real space, now dominates the planet. The primacy of real time, of immediacy, over space is an accomplished fact, and it is an inaugural one. A recent...
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This will be a continuously updated post collecting the thoughts of great thinkers both past and...
From Wildcat
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Definitely, man will not only build various artifacts displaying features that can be qualified as "intelligent", but also infer...
From Wildcat
 
I have been wondering lately on the actualization of the web’s nervous system, especially...
From Wildcat
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From Xárene
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A Semiconductor Film by Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt shot at the NASA Space Sciences Laboratory, UC...
From Counterform
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Voice: Alan Watts
From Rourke
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World Builder from Bruce Branit on Vimeo. A strange man builds a world using holographic tools...
From Wildcat
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This is a continues study that will take many twist and turns. A bit of Neuroscience, Social...
From BAIDA
 
"At the dawn of societies, men saw their passage on Earth as nothing more than a labyrinth of...
From Wildcat
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We listen to the voice, the tune of acceleration distributed in million labs, the undercurrent wave...
From Xaos
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Something I've noticed about internet communications (forums, msn, chat) is that they are more similar to my internal monologue than to face to face conversation. However, it is not a monologue, it is a dialogue or multilogue (polylogue? :P). I think this is primarily because of lower felt need to be be cautious, a willingness to risk displaying...
From AsylumSeaker
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From its inception Wigglism has promoted the notion that the truth, or that which seems true, is...
From notthisbody
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Founding the Singularity University is perhaps one of the most essential events to happen lately....
From Spaceweaver
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"We are now in the steep part of the exponential trajectory of information technologies in a...
From Wildcat
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Mind uploading (also occasionally referred to by other terms such as mind transfer, whole brain...
From LED
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What? Yesterday I met a Polytopian A what? A Polytopian! And what on earth is a...
From Wildcat
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The crucial subject matter that crosses paths with the current evolution of technology is that of...
From Xaos
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It is an ordinary day. I have been doing some manual chores. The kind that usually requires no...
From Fast T
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Radical Strategies for a Conected World The net is our future. "Of all the endeavors we humans are now engaged in, perhaps the grandest of them all is the steady weaving together of our lives, minds, and artifacts into a global scale network. This great work has been going on for decades, but recently our ability to connect has...
From LED
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The Total Library
 
Here is another beautiful animated visualization of a collaborative project on the...
From carel
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The Hyper-Evolution of Self-Evolution has already begun to shatter the bones and frames of everyone...
From Self-Evolving
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Everything is real but the narrative makes the difference. “We belong to a history that runs in the present. This is a fantastic thing! We belong to a history that runs in a continuous changing present. Yesterday is not now, tomorrow is not now, but we exist in a continuous NOW... we human beings, all living beings, the whole biosphere....
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"The psychology of the mature human being is an unfolding, emergent, oscillating, spiraling process marked by progressive subordination of older, lower-order behavior systems to newer, higher-order systems as man's existential problems change.
" Clare W. Graves (the futurist-1974) Abstract Quality I shall define here not...
From Wildcat
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Today: People are shifting their focus to the energy in their work and its impact rather than...
From Alan Smith
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