Two realms of self-enhancement In three(ish) parts: Introduction The concrete realm The...

part 2 of the series: The rise of the Cyber Unified Civilization Data is not information,...

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

My work is inspired by a number of Science Fiction authors including J.G.Ballard, Aldous Huxley,...

I'm working with a tedious group of people at this moment. People who I can't have a single...

With new technology comes new possibilities to execute technique. If we look to the trend of...

youlitics, openlitics, synerglitics - > where's the alpha-node? please share your tags:...

According to wikipedia, “emergence is the way complex systems and patterns arise out of a...

Philosophers have long wondered about the connection between metaphor and thought:: "We...

in the future, engineering will abandon workshops, screws and nuts, no clean room facilities,...

...this is some of the slides of a talk as given at FRIAS (University of Freiburg, Germany) on...

In order for anything to be infinite, it would have to eventually exist in every incarnation of...

This post was first published as part one of a series of three posts on on Augmentology...

In the chapter titled Author as Producer of Walter Benjamin's Reflections, he introduces Sergei Tretiakov's 'operating writer', and how his/her mission, as opposed to the 'informing writer', is "not to report but to struggle; not to play the spectator but to intervene actively". This description is of the author not as activist--because...

I was reading a post tonight, on one of my favorite forums, about someone who managed to live very cheaply without sacrificing spontaneity, happiness, wholesome meals, or mental health. He seemed to be... Free. I followed the posts to a link to "How to Drop Out" by Ran Prieur, and I found so much of myself in his writing that I wrote...

Frantically importing new information and ideas; editing, categorizing, and organizing for...

Seems that our evolution dictates our necessities and behaviors and thereby defines what space is necessary to house us and our actions. This being said, now with the internet and computers being part of our daily routine our behaviors are changing and will once again redefine space. (future prediction, with touch screens and increasingly bad...

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It gets rather interesting as he begins talking about genetic engineering, about a quarter of the...

Information overload It is great to have access to huge amounts of information, but since we are...

Ares 1-X, a flight test rocket, is scheduled to launch today from Kennedy Space Center in Florida....

In the future it will be less about technology and more about content. Right now as it stands everything is focused on technology and the products that encompass them, rather than on the human factor. We have a myriad of products all of which having to have their own preferences set, their own differing complex interfaces that need to be releanred...

One question that has always intrigued me is what happens to demonic beings when immigrants...

i am desperate to find participants from the arts, design, architecture etc. communities....

My grandmother is writing a novella about a young woman who begins a journey through time to discover her family secrets. Because this woman is a geneticist, grandma must explore this field to get familiar with the basics. This is how she found this site... I could never grasp the size until I actually travelled from a coffee bean to a...

"The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views....

When we are bombarded with information from every direction simultaneously, critical thinking is pushed aside out of necessity by faster, more holistic forms of awareness. Emotion and image take center stage. We are learning to use our digital media as a form of ESP. We don’t read, we scan. We jump around quickly searching for...

I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school: They don't teach you...

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We carved characters into stone and wood because the geography around us is already covered...

View the interactive rendering of Charles Darwin's multiple editions of "On the Origin of Species." A project executed by Ben Fry using Processing.

View article and video at makezine.com Light sculpture by German multimedia design collective lab binaer. A great project highlighting the toll of death and violence in the world today

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This post was inpired by the mysterious entity and video-linking extraordinaire ◊●TodayNow ⇆ smallscreen ⇆ circulate ⇆ InReverse who formerly inhabited Computerlove as well as SpaceCollective (identity "M"). This growing collection of video links is intended to serve as a reference point for anyone with spare time and a...

View statement by Punchcut ...chief criticism is that the UI still relies on a persistent overlay... We will eventually be forced to rethink how humans interact with electronic content and how it is served up. Instead of copying (relying on) archaic methods and using canned/regurgitated user interface experiences, we will have to commit to a...

Visit Wolfram Alpha The creators of Mathimatica have created a search engine of sorts, a computational knowledge engine: it generates output by doing computations from its own internal knowledge base, instead of searching the web and returning links.

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I just found an excellent (5 year old) article to follow up an older post about Utopian...

I want to build moving walls. Walls that show your sound patterns, show the levels of chemicals in the air, play with light and sound, perform tasks, are art...move. I like the troika cloud-it's a beautiful interaction with humans and their environment. This is sort of what I want-except make a wall out of it. Wouldn't it be swell to...

As an Architecture Student, I am very interested in how behavior is effected by space, and architecture. Your amoeba's unique shape, contents, form and mechanisms of movement are defined by activity and behavior. You cannot choose what it will look like, though it is possible to shape it's form through specific activity & behavior, for...

My doctor doesn’t know about the singularity. The same man who is giving me directions for...

What a GREAT time to be alive. Well, I would love to be alive in a few hundred or thousand years when were (assuming were humans) are traveling in space, are living with the earth, and over all these petty problems we face today. The internet is allowing the evolution of species to advance more quickly than ever seen before. 'Back in the day'...

If you have ever heard of Eric Van Danaken and the book Chariots Of The Gods? if you haven't search this in google and see for yourself if we were influenced by E.T.'s. Leave a comment of what you think Also just as a quick follow up. IF we were part of a big experiment to see if a civilization could exist on earth do you think they would...

FROM NEW SCIENTIST: Red squirrels are rapidly evolving in response to global warming - they...

I am a believer in the Law of attraction. I don't like how we name it-the Law of Attraction, But it seems to work. I mean, I guess. But can't we prove, in one way or another, 'pretty much' anything? I found this site, or can I saw this site found me. I was attracted to it-through this web of the internet. The links and the keywords...Just the...