I've been watching a lot of speeches from TED.com lately, and I've been tremendously inspired by their positive energy in a time that the media would paint as rather daunting. I hope to do something with my life as good as those noble people at TED are doing. As good as they are, it is difficult to criticize the people of TED, aka...

On and on does the lattice grow, information flows, and our minds converge, into a single, fiercely independent, decidedly autonomous, highly intelligent, and self-propelling emergent metaverse, the infoverse. The infoverse is where we will live. And we need a home. A mutually supportive habitat of sorts; A mind habitat, an infotat for our...

**I apologize for the audio quality as I captured it with my cell phone in the interest of time. Info below.** I am sure that we can all agree, there are some really great thought processes happening within Space Collective. Great minds are working together, traveling down paths of knowledge as one entity, working out the details of thought...

We listen to the voice, the tune of acceleration distributed in million labs, the undercurrent wave...

A collective experiment in re-imagining the Human. A Question to interact: What would you...

I've been reading a lot lately, but unable to actually finish as much of that as I want. Sometimes I just move on to the next, or whatever is important at that time. Sometimes it's just because I get too busy. But actually the dilemma is that some of this material is very dense, and it's hard for me to get through. For example I had to put...

or The rise of the Cyber Unified Civilization (part 4) “Today, after over fifteen years of...

The flat earth and geocentric world are examples of wrong scientific beliefs that were held for long periods. Can you name your favorite example and for extra credit why it was believed to be true? THALER'S QUESTION [11.23.10] An Edge Special Event! To selected Edge contributors: I am doing research for a new book and would hope to...

Guys? Where are we on this? I think the Julian Assange (head of WikiLeaks) case is of...

a friend of mine invited me to join a tribe today. it sounded slightly cultish (a new god, initiation rituals, survival workshops), but in general i'm interested in fringe societies, and this friend of mine is an artist, so i agreed to follow its development. but it occured to me: there are going to be a shitload of end of the world cults around...

So we're powerful. We can manipulate our environments - ever more so with each passing day. Soon very little will be out of our control. But where do we stand emotionally? morally? Are we ready for this power? Are you? Am I? The world as we see it; just sort of happened. Nature took it's course, and we ended up with trees, continents,...

"The end of the world"?

Creating both environmental and technological awareness in our postmodern world is absolutely...

At this moment in the Internet's history I am one of many, I would suspect, who often prefers to...

Last night I asked google, "is the internet over?" This was the response (be warned if...

this new drug sounds amazing, but i hope that it will always be properly regulated. or else, things can get out of hand.

holy shit. i'm trying to sign up for classes. it's my senoir year at UCLA. AND THERE IS NOTHING I WANT TO TAKE. This is serious. Outside of my my department (Design|Media Arts) there is nothing i want to learn from this institution. EVERYTHING ACADEMIC SEEMS COMPLETELY IRRELEVENT TO MY LIFE. What must be understood,...

Lately I've been wondering if we're really the most superior species on earth, as we have assumed...

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Perspective makes the single eye the center of the visible world. Everything converges on to the...

There is an endless debate raging from just about forever about what constitutes the nature of a human, the following is a short list of features that to my mind belong to the human nature, should belong to the human nature or will belong to the human nature if and when we as a specie will evolve into a creature that is a bit more than a verbose...

"The brain acknowledges and remembers shapes first. [...] Color is the second in the...

Oscar Pistorius, AKA "Blade Runner" -- the South African sprinter who uses carbon fiber...

"In 1969, R. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983), the pre-eminent 20th Century engineer for the...

"When I profess realism about possible worlds, I mean to be taken literally. Possible...

I have been working on a study about the interaction of humans and technology. I won't reveal...

Are you there? Can you help me? I like hearing music from Space Collective, especially whilst...

I point at the small cardboard structure on the train's table. The guard stands blankly and...

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,...

"We are now in the steep part of the exponential trajectory of information technologies in a...

I'm sure many of you know about the great mathematician, Paul Erdos, and may have heard this story about him (from Wikipedia): His colleague Alfréd Rényi said, "a mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems", and Erdős drank copious quantities. (This quotation is often attributed incorrectly to Erdős himself.)[6] ...

I guess one things for certain, that if we keep talking about the singularity and making art, it...

There's been a lot of talk recently about the changes in Net Neutrality laws, and the possibility that they may change drastically in the coming years, thus disallowing for free communications between peers. It's worrisome that Google, monolithic as it is, keeps popping up in these conversations as being not-quite-for neutrality... In the...

Computations performed in chemical systems of the living cell approach the sophistication of small neural networks. Additionally, the extensive interdependence of chemical and electrochemical computation blurs the line between spiking-mediated computation and chemical-genetic computation. The assumption that consciousness is mediated by known...

Like everyone I have watched all three Zeitgeist films (the last has been released very recently, you can watch it here if you have not done so yet). I cannot say that I agree with all, but I certainly agree with much. In particular, as it is often repeated, we must protect the Internet at all times. Protect the Internet against what? We...

My grandpa has brain cancer and is probably going to die soon. Of course I feel sad about this. I see how it's affecting my parents, siblings, cousins etc and it seems as though they're all... more sad?... than I am. I want to feel really badly for Grandpa and his situation, thinking his $10 scratch ticket is a $4 million dollar winner must be...

Knowledge is power. I find every day more and more evidence pointing towards this proverbial fact,...

"I wonder whether fractal images are not touching the very structure of our brains. Is there...

It must have been twelve years ago. I was sitting in the Retro Cafe down at Salamanca Place here...

In this program, scientists discuss recent findings in parts of our universe that for some reason...

i think we need to be really careful when it comes to this whole pursuit of perfection. a lot has been said for the negatives of human nature, we are irrational, often violent and hurtful, and essentially slow paced and fragile creatures. but is this necessarily a bad thing? i am strongly inclined to believe that the positives of human...

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Originally posted in the comments of sjef's post "Fuck 'exploring inner space'. " It was a bit long and in the hopes it doesn't get buried, I thought I'd repost it here. Original Post Wow. Okay. First off I haven’t been able to go through all of the comments, so please excuse me if I go on to say something redundant. I both...

A creationist with whom I was speaking made the following point: A humanist believes that human beings have inherent value, and that life is an important, special thing to be cherished and protected in many situations. A scientific, secular worldview leads one to the conclusion that even the most sentient and sapient of life is ultimately...

What allows beings to love each other is also what makes them lovable, and ruins the utopia of autism-for-two. Has anyone here heard of the Tarnac 9? Or, "The Coming Insurrection"? (from whence the above quote was taken).

I've been teaching non-art/design undergrads for a few years and the one question I get every single year, innocently, is "What is art?" My responses have been philosophical and abstract, probably leaving them as baffled as before they asked the fateful question. In a way, I avoided answering the Question. This year, I've found an...

Many people have lived long enough on this planet to notice a distinct change in the nature of...

Yes, I do believe that true democracy is possible, but only now: trough internet, it's finally possible to include all opinions in a ruling process, and to gather all the votes from general public almost instantly. Today's democracy is a mockery: U vote for people based on their's election video and some rumors you hear (probably created by...