Sometimes the most fascinating books are the ones we cannot read. Here are two illustrated texts...

Prometheus Rising was my entry point into a new freedom. I found the book through some...

New Omodaka video for "Asadoya Yunta" (Which my translator said "cheap...

The Art of Complex Problem Solving Filling the Vacuum An interesting and highly useful...

mind08 talks on seedmagazine • Paola Antonelli, co-host • Ben Aranda • Jessica Banks • Ayah Bdeir • Adam Bly, co-host • Laurene Boym • Chandler Burr • Erik Demaine • Drew Endy • Marc Fornes • Hugh Herr • Chuck Hoberman • Jamer Hunt, co-host • Natalie Jeremijenko • Chris Lasch • Christophe...

http://vimeo.com/1841471 This animation shows all scheduled flights over a 24h period (based on 2008 data). Every day 93,000 flights are starting from approx. 9,000 airports. At all times there are between 8,000 and 13,000 airplanes in the air. This animation was produced for the high definition 3D-Globe "Orbitarium" in Technorama - The...

Anybody who uses the Internet should read E.M. Forster's The Machine Stops. It is a chilling, short story masterpiece about the role of technology in our lives. Written in 1909, it's as relevant today as the day it was published. Forster has several prescient notions including instant messages (email!) and cinematophoes (machines that project...

Threats to Humanity Part 1 Isaac Asimov in a Key Note address of The Humanist Institute, January...

Threats to Humanity Part 2 Isaac Asimov in a Key Note address of The Humanist Institute, January...

via laughing squid “A Shared Culture” is a new video that helps explain the idea behind...

Ivan Tihienko has created a very impressive concept for how we can use the computer, without having...

Thomas L Friedman calls for action! If we want to save the planet we need to work togehter. He...

1974 >The Arecibo radio telescope message: a ceremony for making the telescope aimed at...

I haven't seen something about that here, maybe I'm missing something.

Who can come over? It is a long night. We are in the kitchen. Half past eight. Forever. ...

Buckypaper is a material composed of carbon nanotubes that is 10 times lighter and over 500 times...

Maybe everybody subscribe The Technium by Kevin Kelly. Anyway it's here if someone don't. "Cloud Culture While there is only One Machine, there are many cloud computers. Each is a collective of computers acting as one computer. ..."

DNP and metaio implement the first augmented reality museum application with a handheld system in...

... and Earth! I just read about the Flag of Earth and flew so far... Via Conceptual Trends The Flag of Earth was created by James Cadle inspired by the debate before the first astronauts landed on the Moon about the flag to be planted as a symbol of the accomplishment. The American flag, which doesn't represent all inhabitants of Earth...

Humanity Plus (formerly the World Transhumanist Association) has launched h+, a stylish, web-based...

MOMA design curator Paola Antonelli walks through the groundbreaking show "Design and the...

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi says creativity is a central source of meaning in our lives. A leading...

A friend showed me this link. I don't have time to read it completely right now, but it was interesting to peruse, and seemed relevant. Interesting arguments to ponder. cheers. -s I am not the first, nor the only one, to believe a superorganism is emerging from the cloak of wires, radio waves, and electronic nodes wrapping the surface of our...

The source of the term Journal for the Traction TeamPage database is Douglas Engelbart's NLS...

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The Atlas of Cyberspace illustrates graphically, the shapes, structures and complex forms of the...

Two realms of self-enhancement In three(ish) parts: Introduction The concrete realm The...

Saturn: Evolution of Technology* Awesome advert. Agency: Scholz & Friends...

An impresive representation of how ideas flow. Congratulations to people at TED*, and the team...

This incredible piece of architecture is built along the coast line of the 3,000-year-old city...

The Technium hat tip synchropocalypse

Watch this amazing short document on CBS 60min about the first brain machine interfaces. Little...

Sponsored by Alex Jones Hal Turner has something to say, too.

http://www.changingtheworld.ca/about.html The World's Premier Conference for Youth Changing the World brings together the world's greatest visionaries to inspire young people to innovate and better our world. The topics covered include: technology, science, design, entrepreneurship, philanthropy, and the arts. Among this year's speakers...

http://www.time.com/time/specials/... 3. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

I am happy to say that I have learned the truth and am joyfully living it...

In process towards my end presentation for my Progress & Innovation class I've been sketching some more ideas about Mozilla. This first one is all about the current browser war and their progress towards the imminent "Web 3.0" like the world of Aurora and other next-gen internet internet ideas. Internet Exploder is a bit...

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“If the idea is to yield to virtuality and bring it out, where is the virtuality the final...

Be aware...Epithelium, a cellular boundary layer in organic physiology, will be used as an...

My Grandfather said: The first testament was a covenant between God and Abraham The second...

Keith Peters codes in ActionScript 3.0 via booooooom!