As I listen to Ruben Blades haunting rendition of Patria, I hear the gratitude he feels to those who have gone before, whose efforts have made the comforts and pleasures we enjoy, and whose labours, inspiration and invention we use in our efforts to improve this world and to contribute our gifts in the most effective way we can. Even in this...

you probably know about the Zeitgeist movement. If not, you should. that's a kind of...

The Corruption of Monetary Motivation Everywhere I look I see the corruption caused by...

Sent the Strife The mining colonist Chinda's life is thrown into chaos when she witnesses a...

What are young adults thinking about money and value? How can we create new systems of wealth...

The amazing properties of graphene now include the ability to create mass, according to a new...

GAFFTA Gray Area Foundation for the Arts (GAFFTA) is a San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to...

As I wrote in previous post, I am going to share concepts of essays / stories I am writing for my project. This is chronologically the very first one, although It is meant to be the third one in series. I'd like to open a discussion, so the work will be more useful. Thank you. The world is not only made of hardware anymore. Displays with...

Hello, my name's Josef Pacal and I am a designer. I'm currently based in Czech republic, although I am a cosmopolitan and I don't believe in boundaries. At the moment I focus on Branding, Corporate Identity, User Interfaces and product design. But I am interested in architecture, which is meant to be my future career. As I believe in nature...

I just spent the last three hours browsing the internet and trying to interface a joystick with...

if you begin to feel overload, if you begin to feel what we are saying, consider your...

Subject: Frustrated i was looking outside my window this past saturday, and i noticed it had...

“In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of...

[short story by my friend, on immortality] (constructive critique welcome, we're not actually...

Perceptron is a fractal generator that uses video feedback principle to produce IFS, Julia...

Phonetic, spoken, written, programmable, poetic, and type-able with six keys. alphabet |...

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"We are as gods, and we might as well get good at it." Stewart Brand There is much...

To all theoretical visitors! I just wanted to announce to the world that, though I have yet to contribute anything meaningful in the way of posts/content to SpaceCollective, I have every intention to do so as soon as I find some time. At the moment, I'm in the process of completing the first phase of an ongoing space-related musical...

In case you didn't know, reality is science fiction. If you doubt me, read the news. Read,...

I just finished reading a FABULOUS Book. William Isaacs who wrote Dialogue: The art of thinking together as managed to resume most problems blocking the emergence of Rich and Relevant Dialog in our societies. William Isaacs also touches the state of Dialogues emerging on the Web and discover that that are too much noise, Comment-Based...

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Home-birth Midwife Ágnes Geréb Jailed in Hungary - Take Action Now! NOW! Freedom for...

Geoff Manaugh: Quadraturin and Other Architectural Expansionary Tales Wednesday, October 13,...

I found this very interesting. I wanted to get some of your thoughts on this. Its only the first...

"I can feel it coming In the air tonight Oh lord ..." And now for something completely indifferent ... Can you close your eyes and have vision? Can you stop your mind so you can think? Can you feel outside your senses? Can you imagine what you already know? The following is but a passing possibility ... Tis...

From Spectrum IEEE A strange creature, half robot, half rat, has been seen scuttling across a...

Circles exist within circles, the widest being the human species The diffusion of wisdom demonstrates a parallel between physics and society, permitting me to draw a model of society through physics rather than psychology, sociology or any other humanity. Our advancement as the human community has been governed by physics all along and in...

Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler. --Albert Einstein E usually does not equal M C^2. Thats only when its not moving. The USA government learned that terrorists keep more secrets and try to have more privacy than people who are not terrorists. Therefore secrets and privacy are bad, so the USA government proceeded to build...

about who and what and why ..... "The first thing to be understood is what ego is. A...

“The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution. “ Paul...

"You have asked us, younger ones, to tell you a story," Great Oak said, "but...

what’s the connection? I found this essay very interesting and wanted to share it. Copywright...

How do we make sense of our futures? How do we experience the presence of multiple possible...

We knew full well what we were doing, even those of us with impeccable ethics, working in the pure sciences, mathematics. We knew because the culture of the 20th century had been obsessed with our work since before we were born, and we knew because it was their dystopian predictions that first spurred our fascination with artificial intelligence....

Tom Crouch and Jia Sun Tsang examining Chesley Bonestell's "Lunar Landscape" (July...

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