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

http://blakemasters.tumblr.com/peter-thiels-cs183-startup This link is to a summary of Peter...

The other day I went to buy some EMT at Home Depot. It was just like every other day, until I...

To see beyond the guts, I cut you like paper sheets, so thin that the light will go...

My personal visual speculation of a Stapledon sphere. Olaf Stapledon´s "Star...

Imagine if a transnational entity or organisation could provide to its members the protection and support they need in order to live independently of the national borders inside of which they're born? What I mean is, imagine you don't want to be a part of the nation that's occupying your geographical location.. but you don't want to go to some...

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

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In the realm of the beyond not even the old ones knew where he came from. On an early spring the beyond simply recognized that there was someone else in the game. He never claimed his name, he was always polite and never ever demanded his status to be acknowledged, and hence he didn’t have one. What he did do however, is go to the old ones to...

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

The Story of 1 Video Link

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul 
controlled by...

Jane was the love of my life. Jane was everything. I could not imagine my life without Jane, and yet here I was, imagining just that. The accident was trivial, deserving neither front page nor a mention in the local news. It was raining, she was riding her bicycle, she slipped on the asphalt, skidding, falling, and tumbling until her head met...

I was walking in front of a long line of stores and was surprised to see how easy, theoretically,...

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

The Nature Technology Magic of Motion Video Link

The image .... always has the last word. But I never looked like that! - How...

Digital animation by Candas Sisman, courtesy of Plato Art Space. click image for link to video...

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...

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....

What is so peculiar, even curious in a strange sense, concerning the current events of global unrest is not the actuality of the events themselves but the fact that these events do not coalesce (as of yet that is) around a particular and immediately recognizable leader or agenda. In fact to a very large extent it could be called a non-prophet...

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Nothing new, just thought it belongs here... Mortal Engine by Chunky Move

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In the Realm of the Hackers Video Link

Self-Similar Cascade by dreamcrusher 1. Klong and Sheath 03:25 2. Monochromicide...

Death In The USA EP by dreamcrusher 1. Death In The USA 05:52 2. 2012 06:08 3. Butoh Au...

Crop Circles Quest for Truth Video Link Quantum Communication Video Link Barbury Castle Crop...

(Reporting from a real life event- an almost verbatim transcription) “Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness is in fact the reservoir of infinite possibilities.” D.T. Suzuki I met a person yesternight; she said that she does not recognize boundaries to her beingness. She said that her agenda...

"If one envisions the entire cycle of any act or event in a system where linear continuity and dialectical polarity no longer exist, in a field unhinged by simulation, all determination evaporates, every act is terminated at the end of the cycle having benefited everyone and having been scattered in all directions" (Jean Baudrillard)

A practical theory we can use with current technology if we learned to work together globally....

Harvard ENSC E-155 Professor Fawwaz Habbal & professor Anas Chalah Student name: Ayoub...

Harvard ENSC E-155 Professor Anas Chalah & professor Fawwaz Habbal Student name: Ayoub...

Harvard ENSC E-155 Professor Fawwaz Habbal & professor Anas Chalah Student name: Ayoub...

Harvard ENSC E-155 Professor Fawwaz Habbal & professor Anas Chalah Student name: Ayoub...

Harvard ENSC E-155 Professor Fawwaz Habbal & professor Anas Chalah Student name:...

Some thoughts on the New Aesthetic. A few days ago Bruce Sterling posted an "Essay on the...

In the early 1990s, William Gibson wrote Agrippa (A Book of the Dead), a 300-line...

Of course weather works mostly as science understands, but there are also chaos-theory patterns...

Quantum Communication Video Link

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Intelligent Design a War on Science Video Link Judgment Day Intelligent Design on Trial...

Paying attention to the target consistently and strongly increased the fMRI activity, regardless of whether the subject saw the target or not. This result was expected because many previous studies had shown that attending to a signal reinforces its representation in the cortex. Much more intriguing, though, was that whether or not the stimulus...

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...