New Omodaka video for "Asadoya Yunta" (Which my translator said "cheap...

To begin, the data: " As I breathe the sky anew Lungs contract faintly white (Body, scatter in the dust of the sky) The top of a gingko tree glitters again The zypressen darker Sparks of the clouds pour down." -Kenji Miyazawa "Spring and Asura" " So the biosphere, it seems, in its persistent evolution, is doing...

Prometheus Rising was my entry point into a new freedom. I found the book through some...

An eloquent perspective by Terence McKenna on the idea of a spiritual path for all and an impending...

Sometimes the most fascinating books are the ones we cannot read. Here are two illustrated texts...

The Selfridges store in London approached me to create a window installation. The project was...

“If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.” - Samuel Adams -

"More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if...

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

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,...

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...