My name is growing all the time, and I've lived a very long, long time; so my name is...

phases are cycling through the increase of momentum brought on by interplay sequenced through...

Visualizing a cyber attack on a VOIP server from Ben Reardon, Dataviz Australia on Vimeo.

M.C. Escher Peeled Faces "We are flesh---self-aware, questing, problem-solving...

This is a time lapse video of the sky over the 2009 Nova Sedis Fall Star Party at Chiefland...

To Create Is To Consciously Exist. To be able to perceive the “arrow of time” (or our...

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Economics is based on two concepts; the first is the idea of the incentive, and the second (which is of greater relevance to the post) is utility. Demand for commodities, services, capital etc are all essentially derived from the desire for satisfaction and this fact justifies the placing of ‘utility’ in the centre of the structure of...

Economics is based on two concepts; the first is the idea of the incentive, and the second (which is of greater relevance to the post) is utility. Demand for commodities, services, capital etc are all essentially derived from the desire for satisfaction and this fact justifies the placing of ‘utility’ in the centre of the structure of...

Polymath (from Greek polymathēs, πολυμαθής, "having learned much"); a...

NYT The NY Times and WIRED are reporting on protests in Moldova against the communist...

If they were asked at this point whether they thought that machines had reached the capability...

Microsoft seem to be using acoustics to pinpoint trigger points available in the human frame. Just passing on the latest bloggins. I'm learning not to be too devise-centric in my quest these days but this one is pretty interesting. It moves away from using exterior technology like it is an animal on a leash and goes back to using our body...

I've often said in the past that we don't have time TO 'express' and TO 'represent.'...

In the span of 12 hours I met a young French man playing gypsy music on a saxophone in the park,...

Panama City, Panama 2011.02.24 Presented by: editoris + Cartooch as Hors...

...from THE MASTER HANDBOOK OF ACOUSTICS F. Alton Everest FOURTH EDITION

the ethics of exploration :: Science Fiction Meets Science Fact This is a part of a debate...

The sticker network is a network made with wirelless stickers. Control over the internet leads to a new form of independent network: the sticker network. This is in fact an open internet wich may interconnect wirelless routers or work as standalone. All you have to do is stick arround. Glue stickers everywhere. Large quantities of stickers are...

Going to the heart of how we define our interactions as a species, it may be instructive to wash away the distracting and conflicting details of some modern economic teaching, and instead refocus on the most basic, fundamental truths that have proven sound through all time and experience. These powerful facts do not demand a degree, or even...

I usually read books on Science as if they were poetry. For instance, 'The Black Hole War' by Leonard Susskind is an inspiring plot, dramatic and metaphysical as well as, obviously, scientific. I don't know if the Three/3 in the actual trend of 'the third culture' really convinces me. Probably One/1 is more appropriate as the key point in the...

After Henis fell into my lap, this post just wrote itself. Ax Club (with a most unsettling coat of...

While doing some research for a project I stumbled upon this book and thought I'd quickly share some excerpts: The difficulty lies in the evolutionary process itself. Empathic consciousness has grown slowly over the 175,000 years of human history. It has sometimes flourished, only to recede for long periods of time. Its progress has been...

The answer to the introduction: Everything. I am the living reflection of the sum of Everything that I have ever felt. That is who I am. I am Everything. What I seek to understand: Everything. I want to follow the lessons and logic I discover to understand Everything that comes my way. I seek to understand you. I believe in the...

I had the pleasure to meet several other polytopians in the flesh recently at the TransVision 2010...

In 2004, some robotics geeks and sci-fi fans built a functional robotic likeness of Philip K....

Documentary about the life and ideas of Ray Kurtzweil Barry Ptolemy director interviewed by...

Having participated in the development of the Polytopia Project since its outset here on...

From: SynthGear The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest particle accelerator...

If a business causes a problem, they should not get to profit from it. They should have to pay to solve the problem completely. This problem is not solved. This is a typical example: Someone is losing their house. Why are you losing your house? Because I can't make the payments. Why can't you make the payments? Because I lost my job. Why did...

The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the...

...today is the day of rage in Libya, reports over the past two days indicate that the country is...

“Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and nights; But your ears thirst for the...

Fractal Technology and Historical Fractals in Art & Architecture

We knew the world would not be the same ... .. I suppose we all thought that, one way or...

Originally published on the Emergent Cities blog. OVER THE PAST FEW MONTHS I've been following...

At this moment in the Internet's history I am one of many, I would suspect, who often prefers to...

Why is Nature predisposed to indulging in vices? We hold on to that which gives us pleasure, even though it subtracts from our physical life. A system seeking life most pertinently would not engage in activities that negate it, so life doesn't seem to be the top priority for our system. In looking to Physics for an answer, it's deductible that the...

Winters are pretty dark here, some days I'm not sure the sun even rises. So, I built this lamp....

IBM’s “Watson” Computing System to Challenge All Time Greatest Jeopardy! Champions Starts...

...Libya has not the access as most first and second world countries to medical necessities and...

Sometimes rethinking about all the ongoing problems that exist on our planet, I wish to separate...

... Music + Ideas + Infinite Possibilities in Space Explosive soundscapes immersed in...

...news to report on behalf of the Libyan people, ... The people are fighting for a change,...

A compression of 50 world leaders.

What is the future of A.I., and where could it potentially lead us? trailer 1 | trailer 2 Plug & Pray doesn't only explore the world in which computer science, robotics, neuroscience, and psychology merge, but the philosophical questions that we must explore along the way. Via Ray Kurzweil