I'd just like to quickly apologize for the high concentration of Daft Punk references on this page, for now. I just saw them live last night and am doubly obsessed, if that's even possible. I'm only human, after all.
Aside from my musical preferences though, I've been thinking quite a bit about something lately. The show was outdoors....
Teleportation will change everything... Most likely it will destroy us. First, energy companies will assassinate the inventor, and keep the schematics under wraps. Second, the government will find a way to get their hands on the blueprints and fund the research of the teleportation usage in combat. Etc...
Or we will become the citizens of the...
It would be far easier and would require less energy to build new, efficient cities than to attempt to update and solve the problems of the old ones. Future By Design proposes a city that would use the most sophisticated available resources and construction techniques. Its geometrically elegant and efficient circular arrangement will be surrounded...
Bear with me as I ramble through some general thoughts on the upcoming development of us humans...
The topic of this project is an interesting one, as it's something we'll probably actually have to deal with within our lifetimes. Something bothers me about the project description from the first line though.
What will happen when for the...
Nary a post goes by when I don't feel compelled to share a relevant book.
I'd like to propose a collective recommended reading list,
and in beginning this list I'll paraphrase the first page
of my first recommendation.
It's from a book called "The Black Swan" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb:
Many people, when they see an immense...
Ah yes, the soul. One of the most difficult aspects of the human being to be defined, and thus confined, into wording understandable by even the most prodigious scientists and philosophers. And yet, millions of people firmly believe in its existence, though there has been little proof in recorded history of empirical evidence suggesting its...
Your average 'alternative' 'underground' 'cult' summer booklist will name conservative corkers like William Gibson, Hunter S. Thompson, Ken Kesey, Aldous Huxley, Thomas Pynchon, Kathy Acker, Hubert S. Selby or Brett Easton Ellis. A 'real' underground list might add snotty punk-fashionistas like Stewart Home or Henry Rollins. But if you have read...
I am in Tokyo and it is a little past 5am. It's a little past 1pm in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles -8GMT
Tokyo +9GMT
5am in Tokyo is one hour brighter than 5am in Los Angeles at this time of the year. Regardless, we all more or less know what 5am and 1pm feel like, and 1pm in Tokyo can be as miserable as 1pm in Los Angeles. 5pm rush hour looks...
I am feeling a disconnect. Despite the belief that we all connect.
Is this the plight?
I understand that it is you and I. It is we. Connected by energy. Thought and matter. By the bang, all of us came.
Right?
Born into a world populated by hundreds, thousands, millions, billions, one. All born to the SAME destiny. All to...
I've been thinking a lot about this polytopia without offering any of the thoughts, so here, for whatever they're worth, are some of them.
Mind work in the old world:
Scenario One:
Each mind walks into a room on two legs, they chose a seat and take out a pad and a pencil. Everytime someone offers an idea it's written down on a white...