Monica Anderson explains. Reductionism is an amazingly powerful strategy for leveraging...

Greetings, In a recent moment of clarity an epiphany dawned upon me, one that I wish to share with you. Perhaps epiphany is the wrong term … a better word would be realization, the culmination of several already known smaller epiphanies coming together to a greater understanding, to a greater acceptance of truth as it is rather than I...

Collaborative Consumption: Reinventing not just what we consume but how we consume. A couple...

In my last post I considered the ability of science-fiction – and the impossible objects it...

Teacher Karl Fisch has flipped teaching on its head - he uploads his lectures to YouTube for...

The following is crossposted from my blog on writing and format, though it belongs here as much as there. I consider the rant as some notes towards a transhuman language. Lojban, like the better known Esperanto, are constructed languages. Esperanto was constructed in order to help bring understanding between people who spoke different...

Want better money? Jay, together with Venessa, Gabriel and Patrizia on Emergence Collective...

what’s the connection? I found this essay very interesting and wanted to share it. Copywright...

Orbital sunrise photo courtesy of The European Space Agency. There is silence in the void. A...

Perceptron is a fractal generator that uses video feedback principle to produce IFS, Julia...

This post is late but necessary! What a great gallery. BIORHYTHM

Check out This interactive website illustrating the scales of the universe... From the Very Big to...

tea-party : a grassroots movement that is anti-big-government and pro-family-values tea party : a grassroots movement that is anti-social services and pro social-control tea party : a fake grassroots movement that is anti-social services and pro social-control, constructed by those few standing to benefit from cuts in social services tea...

Facebook has 100M people that play every day an average of 30 minutes. This equals to 50,000,000...

By Jon Rappoport, nomorefakenews.com OCTOBER 31, 2010. In the summer of the year 2000, it...

Orbital Resonance - New Worlds (download) by Luke Collins (If the audio won't load, try...

A remarkable paper just out in Nature has revealed images of the brain's structure and function in...

In the span of 12 hours I met a young French man playing gypsy music on a saxophone in the park,...

The leading cause of death is birth, and the leading cause of piracy is copyrights and patents,...

#Inforhythms are an experiment in aural representations of annotations or metadata of information....

In it he confronts the topic of nihilism, how technological evolution overtakes biological...

Last night, I found this smart and interesting project about the next interaction between human and...

A human being consists of 50 trillion cells. In each cell are biological and physical...

Sand melting off of walls. A still wind, moved by convection, shifting nowhere; into itself. A...

“Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance...

An idea is something you have; An ideology is something that has you. --Morris Berman Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize until you have tried to make it precise. --Bertrand Russel There are no facts, only interpretations. --Friedrich Nietzsche Every man prefers belief to the exercise of...

Reality is ever changing, and so too should our notions of reality be ever-changing...

Game theory. Secrets vs freedom of speech. Hierarchy vs symmetric organization. From where we are in history (how society is organized, global power dynamics, how we think, etc), it appears that all paths (to possible futures) that average people can imagine lead to nuclear war and extinction. When? After a few more things like Wikileaks or the...

"How compact your bodies are! And what a variety of senses you have! This thing you call...

During the last year, I've been discussing many times about the role of reading and writing in a...

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober,...

First, early philosophers created "good" and "human value" based on nature - as...

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

“Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and nights; But your ears thirst for the...

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-- It didn’t go wrong, not exactly wrong that is. I mean, c’mon, who could have predicted the consequences of a technology that seemed on face value so straightforward, so logically consistent with what we know, or as it turned out, thought we knew, of the way the world works. The point, you see, is that whilst the tech was...

Video lecture... Jack Cowan: Spontaneous pattern formation in large scale brain activity: what visual migraines and hallucinations tell us about the brain (2006)

The following argument diverges from what many of my fellow futurists often believe. It does so...

When I think, study, learn, or even act (or try to), I do so under the pre-supposition that the past - the classical - is better than the modern. In the simplest of explanations, I would argue that modernity is embodied by decadence and stupidity. Of course, this doesn't apply to all, but for the most part, the world in which we move on a daily...

We all need delusions to keep us going, but sometimes delusions just get too hard to maintain. Thats why, at Pharmacorp, we've developed a wide selection of delusions in pill form. We understand what its like living in a post-scarcity, post-magical, post-human world, and we're here to help. Ask your local conscious systems...

Why is the sky blue? The simple answer is Raleigh Scattering. But it is not until it reaches the observer, specifically the brain, that the wavelength is interpreted as "blue". It is easy to detatch the concept of color from the eyes once you understand that there is nothing physically inherent about color. We try to reproduce the...

Delia Elena San Marco by J. L. Borges We said goodbye on a corner in Once. From the...

"Timewave zero" is a numerological formula that purports to calculate the ebb and flow of "novelty", defined as increase over time in the universe's interconnectedness, or organized complexity.According to Terence McKenna, the universe has a teleological attractor at the end of time that increases interconnectedness, eventually...

Dear NotMarie, As you well know I am following quite closely the development of your research and this retro-futurist idea of yours, which you have so aptly named the Artificial Intelligence project of Vague, Very Vague, or 3V. I like it, of course I like it, you know I like it, but I like it like one likes a poem, or a sweet memory of an old...

Ed: This is an essay I wrote for my friends at the World Science Festival, riffing on the central...