May 2008 issue of the Journal of Evolution and Technology, published a fascinating article...

I have always been intrigued by those who choose (or are forced) to hide themselves in plain sight....

designs and grows plants and trees to grow into more or less utilitarian form. It should be...

I have been thinking about the goals of this website. Are we trying to create a heaven in space? This would seem to me to be a worthy goal, although we as a species have made a pretty miserable job of making any sort of heaven on earth. This seems to be the achievement of certain individuals, some of whom we may have met or read about and...

It is obvious that we are in dire need of a new kind of language, a language that may be able to...

Sun The center, the hub, attracting all the VIPS, Where the hoi polloi meet and greet, The wise...

As the universe undulates in its attempt to find the perfect equilibrium of light and time,...

The Vertical Farm Project, led by Dr. Dickson Despommier of Columbia University, aims to deal...

She directed and acted in her film. It was an ongoing creative creation, direction, and plenty...

proposal for an immersive computational system images originally created for the Premonitor...

Architecture, Ultra Light Carbonfiber Composite Material Research Studio Cornell M.arch...

I dig this one much more than the first installment, as it has solutions as well as hypotheses...

Sukhavati - Place of Bliss: A Mythic Journey with Joseph Cambell part one part two

As the intellectual contours of Polytopian existence are coming into focus in Wildcat’s recent...

'Refer to the discourse of music improviser and wine and ask around less the secret of...

infinity is a cyrcle, I wrote, in a script I invented. It is not a typographical error, it...

This project (Beijing Futures: One World, One Dream. Whose?)was begun to encompass a full...

Recently the Institute for the Future, based oin Palo Alto, California, US, has initiated a project...

Are we Cultural Creatives? Not to generalize, but I do get that feeling around here. It's a good feeling. Cultural Creative. I like the sound of it! I first encountered this term when I took one of those online quizzes that my friends were all taking (we are so interested in forming our identities from other people's ideas), What Is Your World...

Richard Dawkins is Oxford University's "Professor for the Public Understanding of...

From my observation, I have found that technology evolves much the same as nature evolves,...

The Global Brain ,GRID 08, Nova Spivack

Here's a mesmerizing ten-minute video from the Darwin@Home project (which harnesses idle...

Is language is a purely cultural phenomenon or not? Obviously it's the most successful...

The war is over It's over It's over

The following is a journal type entry so please excuse the poor writing. there is so much complexness in every detail about everyday it is funny to try to recall and focus on every aspect. there is enough to keep the outer layer of the mind and thought processes occupied. I have been realizing lately that it is possible to employ inner layers...

California based NeuroSky is providing solutions to effectively interface bio-signal...

Do you consider yourself a "visual" person? The FM 100 Hue Test puts forward a simple way of testing your color vision. Arrange the colored squares according to hue. The instructions are simple enough, but the test is tricky. I spent a good ten minutes working on this one, and got a bit of a headache as well. My results... I'm...

All Together Now: Developmental and ethical considerations for biologically uplifting nonhuman animals. George Dvorsky

Most of you have probably run across this, but I still think its very interesting. I'm a musicology student, so this type of research (especially when referencing Greek music) is really interesting to me. Anyways, here is the link:

The Portal* "Future Food - Meat without Livestock" focuses on possibilities for replacing animal products with products that are not derived from animals. These products can be divided into two groups: Vegetarian Meats, Non-Dairy Milk Drinks and Egg Replacements These products simulate or copy the animal derived products. There...

#Polytopia-(the emergence of) - is a work/proposal in progress# We are called to be architects...

Unfortunately this isn't a post to share something, but to ask something of you instead. I...

Pauline Oliveros and ISIM (International Society for Improvised Music) has thrown the multimedia performance into a direction inclusive of the internet community as audience. This is not necessarily a new concept, but does touch on the perception of reality. Is the audience viewing from computers within outside reality or within the reality of...

Dave Eggers wrote this piece for Esquire Magazine after being named one of the 75 most influential people of the 21st century. THE FUTURE OF WORDS Author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers is one of the most ambitious and activist literary figures of his generation. We asked him if reading has a future. It’s...

We looked through the door and saw composers writing music, musicians rehearsing, and for some reason there was a banker(?) in the room. Now, since composers like John Cage, Pauline Oliveros, Karlheinz Stockhausen, etc, the doors have been thrown wide open. We walked into the room apprehensively though. We watched (and perhaps talked) to the...

Gil Scott-Heron

The following are thumbnail versions of my bound book since the full size would not fit and would...

I really enjoy my carnal existence; eating, drinking & exercising. But strangely I quite appreciate the idea of living forever - despite all of the negative connotations associated with it - what if this "Polytopia" was to be a hyperspace - kinda like second life, but controlled in the first person by our electrical selves,...

Nowadays, there are companies that believe on a change. I've you belive too, give and...

“You-you yourself are a child of this mass and a brother to all the rest. Or else an...

So it looks like there will be a new futurist-oriented magazine in the making. I have gotten...

Dear Polytopians, The Polytopia project is now open, and the flow purports worthy and interesting happenings. Your inputs, essays, papers, links, suggestions, comments and sharing are the lifeblood of a collaborative effort to ascend. Intelligence is being amplified as we speak Let us make the Polytopia happen Welcome Wildcat

A project Proposal: Polytopia , Our Mind Habitat in the Infoverse A dream you dream alone is...

Life is about experiencing. There is no one in your life more central as a character than yourself. Therefore, I decided that experiential protagonism is the way forward. What is it? To me it is the essense of life as a living, breathing human being. Every day we interact, learn, teach, experience. From these experiences we grow. Central to this...