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...

NEW! Archimedean Spidron Tile Enjoy it! Thanx a lot. The Spidron Team

Human beings versus machines, or machines as instruments of human designs? The answers to these two questions would have been obvious years ago: Human beings, of course, machines are instruments of human design! But now days when we speak so much of progress, science and technology as if progress, science and technology were in themselves...

Projekt: 0 - Lonely Sun; found here Fascinating visual (and musical) works by Václav Pajkrt!...

"Iceberg 2025" is an architectural interactive installation proposed to be installed in...

Beneath is an indoor interactive installation inspired by the underwater world. It consists of a...

I am always thoroughly impressed with Mr. McDonough when I hear him speak. He his not only acting...

Talk about a bad place to have a light bulb burn out...The crew aboard the ISS is struggling with lightbulbs burning out in the new Japanese module. "Almost half of the 21 fluorescent lamps aboard Japan's experimentation module Kibo on the International Space Station (ISS) have burned out, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)...

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...

In my last post, I went over several challenges facing Polytopia. Now, I will attempt to share...

THE SUPERSTAR: Self-Sustaining City of the Future by Evelyn Lee "The city of tomorrow...

Combine a dimly lit room with Sigur Ros, Radiohead, Flickr.com, and an array of other comfort-rot activities, and you get a recipe for the dissolve of interest of most other things in life. Namely, my job as an industrial designer in the field of visual merchandising. I've been spending the past year partaking in the subtle manipulation of the...

The Portland, OR Inverge and Cre8Con conferences were last week. You should scope their twitters and blogs at #Inverge and #Cre8Con. It was amazing.

I made this collage in 1994 (about). Still looks like today for me despite of yellowing.

A project Proposal: Polytopia , Our Mind Habitat in the Infoverse A dream you dream alone is...

This is part I of a two-part post on my thoughts on the Polytopia. In this first one, I will aspire to present the challenges we will face in Polytopia. In the next post, I will examine possible vaccines and counterpoints that could be built into the architecture, as well as possible constructive uses that could help all of us...

The Mike Wallace Interview: Aldous Huxley5/18/58. Aldous Huxley, social critic and author of Brave...

I have always been interested in human individuality and self-expression... The persons...

Interesting speach by Peter Hirshberg. Always is good to look backwards :) His blog here.

Human society needs to aspire to an integration of its material, spiritual and ecological elements....

• In the past three decades, one-third of the planet’s natural resources base have been...

Oil Fields No. 19 (California) & Bao Steel #7 (Shanghai) These images are meant as metaphors...

MW - China, Factory For The World: Image #1, EB - Manufacturing #17 (Dehui City, Jilin...

CJ - Crushed Cars #3 (Tacoma) & Mixed Recycling (Seattle) Exploring around [the United...

MW - Architecture of Density: Images #a15 & #a101 Hong Kong is one of the most densely...

EB - Dam #6 (Yangtze River) The Three Gorges Dam is the world’s largest and most powerful...