Academia in the age of the search engine Historically, the world’s universities have been the...

by Boston Dynamics

EB - Tanggu Port (Tianjin) In one scene [of Manufactured Landscapes] we were in the largest coal...

We’ve reached a point in our civilization where counterculture has mutated into a self-obsessed...

This is another toy (it is unclear if such things belong here). However, I thought the emergent complexity resulting from multiple interacting automata was worth showing. you will need the latest version of java to view this ( click and drag things ) if you ...click in an empty area a moth appears ......on a moth it turns into...

Mauro Fuke / 2008

I have spent a long time away from this website. I have seen a lot of things, and been a few places, and I don't know how things are going. However, I just experienced Youtube Doubler for the first time today. Youtube Doubler is the work of artist Brian Kane, and suffice it to say that if it brings me out posting again it's pretty darn...

(The Energy) As the ego is made transparent, the individual begins to feel disconnected. The soul...

From Tomdispatch.com -- August 20th, 2008 Apocalypse Later A Futurologist Looks Back at 2008 By John Feffer Being a futurologist means never having to say you're sorry. Our predictions always come true eventually -- or, if they don't, well, how quickly people forget. Look at Newsweek's George Will. He predicted that the Berlin Wall would...

Good morning SpaceCollective, this is my first post, so I am excited to be able to take part in...

I was working on my portfolio recently and I came across this project that I made for a graphic...

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Man is no longer the measure of all things. The dimensions of human endeavor have expanded from...

As a kid growing up, my favorite video games were multiplayer games. Having spent so much time...

( you probably need the latest version of Java to run this )

Looks like space is going to be more than McDonalds, borscht, and Dim Sum. We may only be a few years away from the first Persian in space: Iranian Space Program

There is a nice and new space-filler shape we discovered, the so called SpidroTetron. Please check...

Units Form Nets - Activity Follows Network To begin with, designing form and determining function depend on emotional and intellectual motivation. In the realm of human affairs, as the selves complement each other, emotion and intellect condition the affairs. The type of imagination and memory activity that is from anxious and aggressive mind,...

This is the same algorithm as in the last post, but I played around with the color scheme and...

Bioplastics are becoming a burgeoning industry as the cost of oil climbs and the disastrous...

Atomium in Brussels is celebrating its 50th Anniversary in 2008. We decided to make a colorful...

When we launched SpaceCollective towards the end of 2007 we had no idea whether the “forward...

Spidronized double Triamond Lattice. My friend Walt (Mr. Walt van Ballegooijen) doesn't have a...

With the discovery of the three Super Earths found recently, I started thinking. Maybe the...

This video expands upon the model from my previous post. It now incorporates connections...

Earth is the only known planet that offers life: a natural system of energy and matter making...

Final burn out is finished. I look forward to the quiet calmness of this newly acquiesced...

Time is an unsettled issue in PHYSICS. Existence of pretty much everything visible in cosmos is far...

I made this image to help me remember a story that I've been working on called "Star...

Loads of bulletins and robots everywhere... As I read on Robots Rules: "Pleo is the...

"Sync" by Steven H. Strogatz Topic: coupled oscillators, applied math Tonight the Beijing Olympic games (um... 2008) have opened with a huge bass of square drums made of bronze and wood that covered the central stadium. Each drum would glow when hit by a dedicated person, a drummer, or artist standing next. The performance was...

The discovery of an organizational hyper-structure whose hierarchical contour defies our normal abstracting ability - (and yet can be detected by a colossal metaabstraction reported by Plato and surnamed by him Noesis) is a matter of unparalleled importance, for this hyper-structure seems able progressively more and more to subsume its...

A while ago I began to question everything that was emerging as common ground within our/my generation. We are all special, unique, hypocrites and most importantly always right. We are the exception to every rule, powerful but helpless and insecure. The internet has created grounds for multi-faceted identity like never before and its ability...

One of the most important aspects of the Burning Man experience & experiment, is not just the...

Marshall McLuhan has been mentioned in passing in various comments here on spacecollective,...

I am in Tokyo and it is a little past 5am. It's a little past 1pm in Los Angeles. Los Angeles -8GMT Tokyo +9GMT 5am in Tokyo is one hour brighter than 5am in Los Angeles at this time of the year. Regardless, we all more or less know what 5am and 1pm feel like, and 1pm in Tokyo can be as miserable as 1pm in Los Angeles. 5pm rush hour looks...

Firstly; great way to make money. Secondly; the perfect slaves. Everyone benefits from...

I remember the moment I realized I had the ability to read. A major epiphany. I also remember ...

I think this is a significant step to the evolution of human-robot relationships. Heart...

On Thursday, NASA held a press conference to announce that the recent TEGA experiment on board Phoenix had confirmed the presence of water in the Martian soil. Whist exciting, Phoenix scientists were expecting that result. However, behind the scenes, something else was being discussed and it had little to do with melting water… via...

Just my thoughts at the moment. I'll probable re-write this at a later date but for now here it is. My attempt at defining reality. Man shapes his own reality, every man interprets what is real to him and what isn't. Similar to how some animals can only see certain colors, or have different eye physiologies. So the world is different from each...

Following the last week announcement that Scientists have Put Exercise In A Pill This is a round...

Under certain conditions the cortex of the human brain can act to propagate wavelike activity...

^ a work by Amandine Urruty I should be back with fresh posts soon! In the meantime, you can...

It has been a few years since I convinced myself that the future prophet nearly every religion refers to must be the mind we are currently creating with our computers and more importantly their connection with each other, the internet. Since then I have talked about this with numerous folks to no avail or interest. I hope that among the Space...

At the interior of the series Prismatic Stories I started a sub-series. The stories are prismatics...