Army developing ‘synthetic telepathy’ Similar technology marketed as a way to control video...

My last post can be read under a lot point of views. This time, I only want to focus on a global...

Optimism is a political act. Entrenched interests use despair, confusion and apathy to prevent change. They encourage modes of thinking which lead us to believe that problems are insolvable, that nothing we do can matter, that the issue is too complex to present even the opportunity for change. It is a long-standing political art to sow the...

I stumbled onto this model early on in my studies of consciousness. The studies aforementioned were...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

The Global Brain ,GRID 08, Nova Spivack

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:

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

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

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

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,...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

Today is a very special day, a day to celebrate People. I almost missed this celebration, but...

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...

Eu te amo muito, mas muito, que chega a doer Espero que tudo, a partir de agora, seja muito melhor Você vai ver como tudo vai mudar e que vai ser mais legal, sem rancores e egoísmo desculpa se eu fui o maior idiota, o mais egoísta, e tudo aquilo Só peço que a gente consiga viver em paz e felizes ficaremos na estrada

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

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...

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...

In aggregation I left the islands of leaving with nothing to say. Had I stayed to learn what...

"Today, 13 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute, and we believe the volume will...