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 -...

What do you expect?

What do the US Diplomatic Cables - released by WikiLeaks - reveal about the state of the African...

I just happened upon tthis article while eating huevos rancheros in sunny Burbank CA: New Computer System Can Read Your Emotions The system works by analyzing acoustic patterns, like speed of speech and number of pauses and it seems perfectly reasonable that a computer could 'outsmart' me in my lifetime. Thus leads to a clarification of...

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 heart , ...

and the rest will lose their balance

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

“Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.” Mark Twain (part 1) A number of articles these past weeks have caught my attention as I write these words, the first, coming from: The guardian: Population of world 'could grow to 15bn by 2100' (Nearly 7 billion people now inhabit planet but projections that number will double this...

Caused by sunlight scattered by space dust in the zodiacal cloud, it is so faint that either...

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Giant cell convection patterns beneath the surface of the Sun, as revealed by the new model....

Become the change machine.

http://purebecoming.com/ pure becoming is the culmination, and eventual continuation, of an...

So...I love starting a conversation with 'So', it suggests an air of awkwardness.. so, let's...

I was driving through the Tenderloin the other night - one of the most socio-economically depressed areas of San Francisco. Across a long wall someone tagged "Occupy Wall Street" in big letters with a clean font and preceded by the Twitter "#" hashtag notation. It was a big, funky chorus bridging the grimy street with a...

The USA government is arrogant and proudly hangs their balls out for all to see, thinking...

I put a short post up a few days ago in an online group I’m in, with the above image and this brief description: superhero school. center for disruptive innovation. continuous learning zone. collective intelligence. live/work startup incubator. community center. hackerspace. makerlab. autonomous zone. permaculture and sustainable food...

"The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look...

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There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. 
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I was born very far from where I’m supposed to be, and so, I’m always on my way...

“A concept is a brick. It can be used to build the courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.” Brian Massumi - Introduction to A Thousand Plateaus The social aspect of the hyperconnected web carries an update to the nature of propinquity. Propinquity is a conceptual brick we need re-acquire and redefine in the era of...

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Wave Riders have been with us always, usually unnoticed, or if noticed then treated as a...

Wave Riders are curious people possessed of an innate capacity to go with the flow, constantly...

“What in the history of thought may be seen as a confusion or an overlapping is often the...

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live...

Australia's carbon tax is a highly divisive issue. Of course the free enterprise system has failed to regulate itself adequately, after all, why would it? It's supposed to be "free"! So it has been left to irresponsible action for too long, and time is short. But authority is an ineffective way of solving problems. We have to...

There is one general pattern that explains everything from single thoughts in a person's mind...

We are at a special moment for advancing the art of mathematical modeling in the social sciences....

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Who are those people? They are what remain of the original colony. What happened to the rest of them? No one really knows, but rumors suggest that they are not far from here, in what conspiracy theorists call the real Vanevar 7. But why did they leave? Vanevar 7 is already the most advanced human colony; open sourced government and...

There is no thing endowed with life - from man, who is enslaving the elements, to the nimblest...

http://vimeo.com/35391060 password:lazarus a vision of long distant future occurring some...

Time, as I see it, is a conceptual and abstract system completely engrained into our lives.  The idea of duration and period are inseparable from existence in our unenhanced minds. Calendars, seasonal tracking, and indications of when the sun will rise or is sure to set stem from ancient civilizations all the way through today (watches,...

Opening Space for Emerging Order. AKA barcamp, unconference. In the words of Harrison...

When the life insurance guy called encouraging me bump up my plan from term insurance to whole life...

I recently read “The Lights in the Tunnel” by Martin Ford. The book explores the implications...

data about data_ cognizant adjustments to the properties of media, and adjusting those...

the wind blows roots buried in the soil chaos, beauty seeking the form that the desire...

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that...