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

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

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...

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...

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

The Global Brain ,GRID 08, Nova Spivack

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

Is language is a purely cultural phenomenon or not? Obviously it's the most successful...

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

The following is a journal type entry so please excuse the poor writing. there is so much complexness in every detail about everyday it is funny to try to recall and focus on every aspect. there is enough to keep the outer layer of the mind and thought processes occupied. I have been realizing lately that it is possible to employ inner layers...

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

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...

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

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:

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...

#Polytopia-(the emergence of) - is a work/proposal in progress# We are called to be architects...

Unfortunately this isn't a post to share something, but to ask something of you instead. I...

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

The following are thumbnail versions of my bound book since the full size would not fit and would...

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,...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

We call wildflowers weeds, and we pull them out of our tame tidy gardens. The butterflies go away...

Fifty light years away is a GIANT DIAMOND, supposedly the largest in the galaxy, weighing five...

As time marches on, we see the weakening of geographical forces on the lives and activities of...

I was just reading about iraq in the newspaper, about the state of negotionations between the...

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

The Whitney Music Box is “a musical realization of the motion graphics of John Whitney as...

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!...

species are now swimming in their primordial pudding , they will gain more and more...

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 1969, R. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983), the pre-eminent 20th Century engineer for the...