“Put simply: cities are like ant colonies are like software is like slime molds are like...

Jeff Jonas wrote in General Purpose Sensemaking Systems and Information Colocation ... With...

This video is inspired, in part, by the ideas explored in David Deutsch’s new book, THE...

As humans, we have an innate faith in everything... Just like the animals we are, we are naive. Cognitive thinking has evolved us humans to the place we are now, and has created a turnoil from language. We are our own worst enemies. We compete against ourselves and the ones we love, yet we have the faith that we will always have something to fall...

Summary: Pense, a transhuman, is trying to prevent a new artifact from taking control of all consumers. Pense was not himself. The transhuman upgrade notice had been false. Whatever it was that had been loaded had made his system dysfunctional. He had to try to remove as much of the prostheses as he could which he had done before for repair....

The past month had the great pleasure to condense time and networks. Initially at...

In 1974, American professor of psychology Dr Clare W Graves wrote an article for The Futurist magazine titled Human Nature Prepares for a Momentous Leap. Graves described an impending change in human consciousness that would be, in his words: ‘…the most difficult, but at the same time the most exciting transition the human race has faced to...

The quality of being, as an aesthetic phenomenon, is radically altered in the age of...

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This is part 5 in a 12 part series. :: conscious awareness :: A recent article in the New York Times, Building One Big Brain,  prompted me to write up the next skill in this 12 part series. The piece quotes Nicholas Carr’s opinions about how the Internet is reducing the “capacity for concentration and contemplation,” scattering...

The original is unfaithful to the...

This is part 6 in a 12 part series. The first five skills were Pattern Recognition,...

[This is part 4 in a 12 part series. The topics covered so far are Pattern Recognition, Environmental Scanning, and Network Weaving.] ::Foresight:: The ability to develop foresight is a cornerstone for forward thinking individuals and change agents. I can say that on the personal level in my own life, when I did not have a clearly...

I arrive now at the ineffable core of my story. And here begins my despair as a writer. All...

They demand I submissively submit my submission of money and papers to the Submission...

An article by Jonah Lehrer, written in 2008, recently appeared on SEED — Jonah called for a collaboration between contemporary arts & sciences and suggested that realm of science should be more open to the artist and his interpretations of life, since artistic insights often lead to the discovery of truths. I couldn't agree more. I...

Summary: Your reality is entangled with mine and everybody else's Events are neutral...

the future is silver linings encased in glass embodied in grapheme the future is ever...

Data by itself has no meaning. It fills databases. This data must be examined in order to become...

My Most Fundamental Principles by Ray Dalio In pursuing my goals I encountered realities,...

Etomyr was an exploratory engine we had devised for extending our predictive powers in the realm of hyperspace, it was, and one must admit, quite an ingenious device. Etomyr consisted of a series of bioengineered nanobots, arrayed as an intergrid of precisely weaved hybridium atoms, held as an ensemble by a Won neural mesh. Of course we could...

Video: Thom Yorke (radiohead) & Robert Del Naja (massive attack) play The Bank Of Ideas,...

Described as a “knowledge collider,” and now with a pledge of one billion euros from the...

Abstract The field-process-model is a theoretical framework the Institute for Participatory Design developed to understand generative design processes as dynamic interactions of forces in a field. The development of this model became necessary after we encountered numerous theoretical and practical problems with the application of our former,...

Creation besides being the opposite of annihilation, is the constant state of readjustment,...

What Aesthetics dictates is the political act of infiltrating the sign; to infiltrate and to...

The Ides Of Something Are Upon Us It was the time of religious wars. It was a time of...

"All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds...

The idea is to remain in a state of constant departure while always arriving. Saves on...

It has been awhile since my last post. Yet, my ties with this community are as strong as ever....

Har inte skrivit något här i bloggen på länge pga att så mycket annat har hänt. Utlandspraktik i 3 veckor och andra skoluppgifter som har prioriterats. Grafittiprojektet har dock alltid funnits i bakhuvudet, t.ex. i Tyskland kollade jag på mycket gatukonst och även tog några bilder. Jag ligger väldigt långt efter i planeringen och...

When I was a younger man, art was a lonely thing. No galleries, no collectors, no...

I use colors that have already been experienced through the light of day and through the...

Right now, as you sit in front of your computer screen reading this line of text, the future is...

Song and video by and with Alanis Morissette. Lyrics from www.lyred.com Thank you -...

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What do the US Diplomatic Cables - released by WikiLeaks - reveal about the state of the African continent [country-by-country]? Sudan The Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir, stole $9bn of Sudan's public money, and stashed it in UK banks. The Lloyds Banking Group is name checked in the cables as one of the banks who accepted this money. Lloyds...

In the future there's a bench so smooth that it feels like sitting on water. There people drown in,...

I felt that "White on White" was important, but I couldn't explain it. I kept talking...

Summary: Much of humanity has yet to face its fear of the future. This may boil down to technology. Science is timeless, but tech is momentous. Absolutism is not endemic to human nature which derives meaning from experience. Edgar is beginning to think that this has all been a hoax. It might have been setup by some conglomerate to affect...

If you haven't had at least a slight poetic c r a c k in the...

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Every government works for the majority agreement (also known as democracy) of its people. We...