Wired: January 5, 2010 By pushing the refurbished Hubble Space Telescope to its very limits as...

According to Wikipedia, Crank is a pejorative term used for a person who unshakably holds a belief...

In Part 2 of the HFD series, I pointed out the main differences between monopticism, panopticism,...

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caught @ the American hotel, Amsterdam. 1997

We've entered into a new year, the channels have been flooded with list upon list of 2010 predictions and trends, and now we're laying the foundations for how we'd like to characterize the times - David Houle is calling it the Transformation Decade, a tweet from @RitaJKing mentioned The Imagination Age, and Seth Godin rang in the new year with a...

Contemporary human being exists inherently in several environments simultaneously; one’s...

Sometimes when we perceive the world we perceive without language. We perceive spontaneously. But...

"We may be on the edge... ...of nothing particularly important."   - Bruce...

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Punchcard Phone by Marek Bereza Steampunk Tendencies aka Ways in Which the 21st Century May...

or The rise of the Cyber Unified Civilization “The radical of one century is the...

au from Vicent Gisbert Soler on Vimeo.

This is a study that explores the notion of direct, participative and processual democracy. ...

Virtual technology has allowed the creation of new social and commercial worlds existing in...

Happy new year everyone! This is the edition of the First Ten Percent of the New Millennium. Its continuously the time for Millennium bridge, Millennium tower, Millennium biosphere... you name it! Never stop believing. Today is the full moon, blue moon and partial eclipse of the moon. "Blue Moons are rare (once every 2.5 years). Blue...

I realised the other day that taking seemingly harmless ideas to their logical conclusion is a...

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In my last post on HFD, I covered the basics of holopticism, noting that a many-membered view of...

I found this marvelous clip of Carl Sagan explaining science, set to music. Enjoy!

I recently spoke at a conference where I introduced a broad futures concept that I have been developing: Holoptic Foresight Dynamics. HFD (as I will refer to the concept hereafter) is a strategic model that can help organizations, governmental entities, cultural institutions, and societies to become foresight competent – and even develop...

i stumbled upon altered states last night via netflix and would recommend it to anyone who...

Remember Be Here Now is the title of a 1971 book on spirituality and meditation by Ram Dass.

Spaceship Earth is a world view term usually expressing concern over the use of limited resources...

Click on the image to start the video Puma Punku, truly startles the...

The world spins out-of-balance Long before organic grocery stores and hybrid cars, our ancestors...

“It was the cucumber that made the difference, the crunching made real, the angst of eating disappearing, the jaw unperturbed, and ears flowing smoothly into the motherland of silent mastication. When the sight appeared unblemished, the vision colorful and engaging, riots subsiding into the longing moment, flow ensued. It was flow all...

Image courtesy of www.gigaom.com The image above is pretty self-explanatory. The...

Although Henry Markram (head of the Blue Brain Project and speaker in this video) never really...

Tango for upright piano and practice room. New York 2004

A videomusical self-portrait. Berlin 2009

After weeks of deep thinking I have figured out some important things about changing ourselves. I'm...

It takes $26 dollars to take over the world? A Hack of the Drones: Insurgents Spy on Spy Planes...

on december 21 1940 frank zappa was born… i personally have the highest esteem for the gifts he bestowed… if you haven't delved into them you may be missing out on something… information is not knowledge knowledge is not wisdom wisdom is not truth truth is not beauty beauty is not love love is not music Music…is the...

czech danceschool group photograph, author unknown

intelligence: n. the capacity to acquire and apply knowledge (this post is a group Twitter...

From the beginning of time, black holes were scaring children. Now they are not so bad, they spread creation beyond the limits of individual galaxies.

An Article that address energy use and computation speed. Computers and the immense amount of power...

While this is a departure from the nomadism project I've been posting up here, I thought it would be all right to share this essay I just finished, on the ethics of community service. The Ethics of Service Y.J. Wu, 2009 Abstract The aim is to demonstrate that the fundamentals of community service, as distinct from those of other forms...

The modern computer has been essential to coming to understand how the Social Brain works,...

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I rarely share CNN stuff; they suck in journalism. But this little window into Shishmaref, Alaska...

weather report; 32°C, no wind at all

From SEED: By Veronique Greenwood CHAOS IS EVERYWHERE IN THE NATURAL WORLD, PRESENT IN THE...