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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may...

"One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a...

The Case: Investigating traces of the real; applying artistic insights while mapping extended...

Continuing its annual tradition of walking the lines between genuine social goodyness and...

Entwined, Enmeshed, Entangled – Three modes of ‘being’ pertinent to our cyborgization...

infosynaesthesia & memetabiosis :: biological. neurological and physical :: science and art...

A video timeline of the social and technological changes that could save civilization and...

Nexus is about the evolution of a techno-participatory culture. It’s called Nexus, an upgrade...

All living things carry an inheritance that governs their behavior. We possess an adaptive...

We believe in the extraordinary concept stuck with an ordinary name - meaning. Meaning is what...

What is swirling, where to, and why, and how to get society on a futurable sustainable...

Meet Gangaji, who speaks about silence and space and writes in Hidden Treasure: Naturally we...

An ‘all over the place’ somewhat organized selection of that which was interesting and...

We are on the hunt. Our prey is accurate, systemic, comprehensive knowledge. We understand...

Many of us are enrolled in the modern school of metrics. Measurement. Statistics. Data and Data...

Everything I know is a figment of human imagination – best case. Worst case – skip the...

So often in our daily lives we are confronted with information whose validity we should question,...

We view ourselves and our world through models. Representations. Models are in our mind....

The elephant in this story is “what is”. We each uniquely experience what we experience....

We are wired to process visual complexity. Complexity is best organized and best communicated...

The Atlantic had the past week a fascinating collection of robot images. One stood out...

LEVELS OF CONVERGENCE by Renata Lemos, Lucia Santaella Part 2 - Mind and Matter;...

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some experiments from tonight's...

October 20-21st, 2012, 11am-6pm Los Angeles Edison Power Plant #3 The Brewery Arts Colony,...

dear bruce [sterling], The reason for this interview is that during Early Atemporality - the...

A Palimpsest Project In a late summer afternoon, contemplating the geography of mind, I...

James T. Kirk: You know, coming back in time, changing history... that's cheating. Spock Prime: A...

Minds might base cognition on 4d(space-time) representation. All conceivable things are located at...

Painting, like us, begins in the caves Painting, like us, begins in the caves, along our...

A quantum computer is made of particles/waves in a specific shape, which DWave sells for a few...

A deeply fascinating and, by measures, terrifying milestone on the path to truly ubiquitous...

Most parts of governments, religions, and many other parts of the world are far more complex...

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...

[Based on the talk I gave at ARE2012.] “The intelligence of the city is on the streets.“...

It used to be that we called upon the tribal shamans to converse with their spirits, to ask favors,...

Organic Memory of the Posthuman The undercurrent that runs behind our exquisite organ of...

In 1738, in a rented hall in Paris, Jacques Vaucanson presented a duck. Not just any duck mind you,...

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...

(Originally published at URBNFUTR- graciously allowing me to republish here) Techno Desire...

Of course it is natural to augment reality, we do it with our eyes and brains ever since perception...

12-year old Victoria Grant explains why her homeland, Canada, and most of the world, is in...

Epistle to the Ecotopians By Ernest Callenbach [This document was found on the computer of...

I was driving through the Tenderloin the other night - one of the most socio-economically depressed areas of San Francisco. Across a long wall someone tagged "Occupy Wall Street" in big letters with a clean font and preceded by the Twitter "#" hashtag notation. It was a big, funky chorus bridging the grimy street with a...

The Future of Occupy project is neither about predicting nor advising the future of the movement....