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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...
 
Written by Xaos; Starwalker; Walking The Fine Line I wish to begin this unfoldment by...
From Xaos
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So dig: in about 20 years we went from knowing rather little about the world beyond what we...
From chris arkenberg
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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may...
From syncopath
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"One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a...
From Wildcat
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The Case: Investigating traces of the real; applying artistic insights while mapping extended...
From Xaos
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Continuing its annual tradition of walking the lines between genuine social goodyness and...
From chris arkenberg
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OVERVIEW from Planetary Collective On the 40th anniversary of the famous ‘Blue Marble’...
From CoCreatr
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Entwined, Enmeshed, Entangled – Three modes of ‘being’ pertinent to our cyborgization...
From Wildcat
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A video timeline of the social and technological changes that could save civilization and...
From Wildcat
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Nexus is about the evolution of a techno-participatory culture. It’s called Nexus, an upgrade...
From Wildcat
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A becoming on the line: painting and the genesis of form. Written by Xaos;...
From Xaos
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An ‘all over the place’ somewhat organized selection of that which was interesting and...
From Wildcat
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A deeply fascinating and, by measures, terrifying milestone on the path to truly ubiquitous...
From chris arkenberg
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Painting, like us, begins in the caves Painting, like us, begins in the caves, along our...
From Xaos
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In 1977, NASA sent a pair of unmanned probes named Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 into space. Among...
From Claire L. Evans
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“Some ideas are better than others. The machinery for distinguishing them is an essential tool in dealing with the world and...
From Wildcat
 
Of course it is natural to augment reality, we do it with our eyes and brains ever since perception...
From Wildcat
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What is swirling, where to, and why, and how to get society on a futurable sustainable...
From CoCreatr
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Meet Gangaji, who speaks about silence and space and writes in Hidden Treasure: Naturally we...
From CoCreatr
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We are on the hunt. Our prey is accurate, systemic, comprehensive knowledge. We understand...
From YWorlds
 
Many of us are enrolled in the modern school of metrics. Measurement. Statistics. Data and Data...
From YWorlds
 
Everything I know is a figment of human imagination – best case. Worst case – skip the...
From YWorlds
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So often in our daily lives we are confronted with information whose validity we should question,...
From YWorlds
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The Atlantic had the past week a fascinating collection of robot images. One stood out...
From Wildcat
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some documentation from NTB Storylabs this past...
From notthisbody
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All living things carry an inheritance that governs their behavior. We possess an adaptive...
From YWorlds
 
dear bruce [sterling], The reason for this interview is that during Early Atemporality - the...
From relemorais
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We believe in the extraordinary concept stuck with an ordinary name - meaning. Meaning is what...
From YWorlds
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A Palimpsest Project In a late summer afternoon, contemplating the geography of mind, I...
From Xaos
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We view ourselves and our world through models. Representations. Models are in our mind....
From YWorlds
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[Based on the talk I gave at ARE2012.] “The intelligence of the city is on the streets.“...
From chris arkenberg
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James T. Kirk: You know, coming back in time, changing history... that's cheating. Spock Prime: A...
From Wildcat
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The elephant in this story is “what is”. We each uniquely experience what we experience....
From YWorlds
 
We are wired to process visual complexity. Complexity is best organized and best communicated...
From YWorlds
 
some experiments from tonight's...
From notthisbody
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October 20-21st, 2012, 11am-6pm Los Angeles Edison Power Plant #3 The Brewery Arts Colony,...
From notthisbody
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It used to be that we called upon the tribal shamans to converse with their spirits, to ask favors,...
From Wildcat
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In 1738, in a rented hall in Paris, Jacques Vaucanson presented a duck. Not just any duck mind you,...
From Wildcat
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(Originally published at URBNFUTR- graciously allowing me to republish here) Techno Desire...
From Wildcat
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Why Freedom of Thought Requires Free Media and Why Free Media Require Free Technology [Video, 1:03:42] Preserved from re-publica.de Media that spy on and data-mine the public are capable of destroying humanity’s most precious freedom: freedom of thought. Ensuring that media remain structured to support rather than suppress individual...
From CoCreatr
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A quantum computer is made of particles/waves in a specific shape, which DWave sells for a few...
From BenRayfield
 
Some thoughts on the New Aesthetic. A few days ago Bruce Sterling posted an "Essay on the...
From notthisbody
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(Not really a serious response to B.Sterling new aesthetic essay..) Paul Klee is always quoted...
From Wildcat
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Most parts of governments, religions, and many other parts of the world are far more complex...
From BenRayfield
 
12-year old Victoria Grant explains why her homeland, Canada, and most of the world, is in...
From CoCreatr
 
Epistle to the Ecotopians By Ernest Callenbach [This document was found on the computer of...
From CoCreatr
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I’ve been tracking emerging trends for a while now, exploring the co-evolution of humanity and our technologies, and building visions of the kinds of futures I’d like to see. Lately, I’ve found myself a bit restless, wondering “what’s next?” The conferences and gatherings I’m attending are beginning to feel stale, the...
From Venessa
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Being free, I am free of being. We are on the edge of a Paleolithic Machine intelligence world. A world oscillating between that which is already historical, and that which is barely recognizable. Some of us, teetering on this bio-electronic borderline, have this ghostly sensation that a new horizon is on the verge of being revealed, still...
From Wildcat
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“Everybody has certain ideals which determine the direction of his endeavors and his judgments. In this sense I have never...
From Wildcat
 
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