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Everything is real but the narrative makes the difference. “We belong to a history that runs in the present. This is a fantastic thing! We belong to a history that runs in a continuous changing present. Yesterday is not now, tomorrow is not now, but we exist in a continuous NOW... we human beings, all living beings, the whole biosphere....

The Compatibility of Religious and Transhumanist Views of Metaphysics, Suffering, Virtue and...

by Kim Joon

Oh Bunny, how I love you!!! My sweetest little bunny … since having him I’ve realized how...

Don't bend [but be open flowing!] don't water it down; don't try to make it...

Prologue When I first set out to write this essay to my peers I was not particularly sure of the best possible way to discuss topics of such a polarizing nature. Moreover, even more daunting a task has been trying to conceive the correct vehicle with which to relay that information. The advent of the internet as a means of communication allows...

Leo Villareal via coolhunting

CityWall is a large multi-touch display installed in a central location in Helsinki which acts as a...

Moebius display is a hardware art piece. This video is the first presentation of this moebius...

Source: WIRED The Robotic Musicianship Group at Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology just...

http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/Media/mediaimages/zooms/ssc2008-11a/index.html cheers, sebastian

Metabolically and Morphologically intelligent built environment for the self-sufficient, adaptable,...

This is a comment that grew too long - a continuation of the polylogue following Xárene's post, Social Networking Tools and Our Future Society It got me thinking about two experiences I've had recently. Love The first one involved someone that I met who had just moved to Europe 20 days before from New York. He moved here to be with his...

For the past few days on an internet forum, I've been discussing how government would be structured if I could erase all the boundaries and current government structures and start from scratch. I started with the idea that more power should be given to local governments and we should be moving towards the opposite direction of a globalized...

Good afternoon. This is my first post here at the space collective and I wish you all a warm...

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"The psychology of the mature human being is an unfolding, emergent, oscillating, spiraling process marked by progressive subordination of older, lower-order behavior systems to newer, higher-order systems as man's existential problems change.
" Clare W. Graves (the futurist-1974) Abstract Quality I shall define here not...

Today, you have new themes for Gmail, and 2.000 images about this century, from LIFE archive....

This is an extreme kind of Spidrons. From side view Erdély - Ballegooijen

A modular system From decagonal, hexagonal spidronnests with special outer angles and rhombs you...

Technology Developments for high impact future technologyView SlideShare presentation or Upload...

Once conscious systems are virtualized, we will have the ability to do some unusual things, for...

Il y a des choses que l'intelligence seule est capable de chercher, mais que, par elle-même, elle...

Sometimes, to evolve as human, we have to look deeper trying to empower the simply and natural born human basics.

"I gave a talk yesterday at the Web 2.0 Summit. It's a short talk, only 10 minutes long, so...

I've been finding a lot of news articles about space and exploration lately, which really gives me hope. Maybe I've just been in the dark, but the last decade or two hasn't exactly been teeming with discoveries in space. chris_mackintosh's post about the glowing aurora over Saturn is just one of many examples on this site and all over the web....

A stunning light display over Saturn has stumped scientists who say it behaves unlike any other...

Recently, watching a few video's on Henry Harkram and Andrew Schwartz reminded me of this...

Is it possible to create a complete model of the human brain? Henry Markram is well on his way,...

Watch these 4 fascinating short videos about the fundamental riddles of existence. Some food for...

part of the text: The technological singularity takes place when the human race succeeds in...

Keith Peters codes in ActionScript 3.0 via booooooom!

My Grandfather said: The first testament was a covenant between God and Abraham The second...

Please have a look! This piece was made from eight quadrilateral saddle spidron-nest and some...

Be aware...Epithelium, a cellular boundary layer in organic physiology, will be used as an...

“If the idea is to yield to virtuality and bring it out, where is the virtuality the final...

In process towards my end presentation for my Progress & Innovation class I've been sketching some more ideas about Mozilla. This first one is all about the current browser war and their progress towards the imminent "Web 3.0" like the world of Aurora and other next-gen internet internet ideas. Internet Exploder is a bit...

I have been reading with great interest and pleasure Rene's latest post bringing forth with...

A coping skill is a behavioral tool which may be used by individuals to offset or overcome...

In the chapter titled Author as Producer of Walter Benjamin's Reflections, he introduces Sergei Tretiakov's 'operating writer', and how his/her mission, as opposed to the 'informing writer', is "not to report but to struggle; not to play the spectator but to intervene actively". This description is of the author not as activist--because...

So I have this friend, his name is Tim. Tim is anti-democracy and anti-capitalism--says these...

One of the most recent examples of a narrative that deals with post-human issues is the Old Man´s...

A short part of a larger talk, what is interesting however is the distinct difference...

I feel dazed in a foggy dreamland, disconnected from friends, lovers, sweet beings because I don’t hear what they say .. I slowly keep up with the eyes and body language, I feel .. The little details of words whiz by .. and I don’t want to talk either anymore. I’ve run out of stories, and jokes, questions to mortals .. but the mystery of...

Polymath (from Greek polymathēs, πολυμαθής, "having learned much"); a...