How much does the average person know about how one of our simplest tools work, the knife? What does it mean to cut something? What does the act of cutting accomplish? How does it work? We all know how to use this particular tool. We think it is obvious, thus we do not contemplate it any further. But most of us have no idea what actually...

R15K For 2-6 Players – AGES 10+ R U L E S O F P L A Y ----------- INTRODUCTION You are about to play a variation of the most unusual game that has appeared in many years. It is not difficult, but because it is so different you will find it worthwhile to read the rules completely through before starting play. No attempt has been made...

The past is the ocean floor on witch the present ocean resides, the future is the sky that will...

NotMarie:” I am overwhelmed 3V, I am plagued and besieged by impressions, ever since our last conversation, I keep on getting lost in my thoughts and sensations.. 3V:” why is that? NotMarie:” ..I am not sure really, it is as if in our last conversation a kind of imaginary carpet has been ripped from under my mind.. Suddenly I have...

not an author and a reader … a collision of co-creators not reading or watching … playing and procreating not a product … a process not a tidy straight line … a mosaic … a pattern that you can view from any perspective not a beginning and an end … the end of the beginning, middle and end not a frozen narrative … a collective...

Red Bull Stratos, a mission to the edge of space, seeks to surpass limits that have existed for 50...

This is an essay I recently wrote for a class on Fractals, Chaos, and Complex Systems. All...

We do not need salvation we need a transparent and complex enough interface W If there is one...

The material and the spiritual are so closely entwined in the human mind that making meaning for...

Bolivian Deforestation "Once a vast carpet of healthy vegetation and virgin forest, the...

  Perhaps us humans living now are more like Gulliver than ever before - with our massive foot...

Some interesting books were recently brought to my attention by Carel. In one of them, Barry...

... that we are wrapping in the real time web. There’s a new sense of Now emerging from the web and it’s starting to become more present than the here and now in front of us. The events in our lives only seem to come into full existence as we post them online. A moment that can’t be digitized and shared in one form or another is...

You and I are not curators. We ”just sort through rubbish“. We are ”just a makeshift step before a more advanced algorithm is invented.“ If the term ”curator is devalued cheapened“ ... ”then museums could lose all respect as cultural bastions.“ “When an old culture is dying, the new culture is created by those people who...

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

My friend is not on SpaceCollective, but this text artefact may be relevant to "The Great...

In world of elementary particles we have no ability to see something. We can just use computers and...

Good morning, Infosphere! Over the past few months, I've been wanting to set up "Metathink Mondays." Essentially, once a week, post an insight or a question that we can all ponder and reflect upon, in the service of making us smarter. Then, I'll collect all the feedback, assemble it into another post or ebook that would be like an...

The world as we know it is in disruption. Maybe it's always been in disruption, pushing us through cycles of apparent chaos so that evolution can continue and new paradigms emerge. Thanks to social technologies, we're growing into a globally connected communication system, and seem to be heading towards a tipping point. But what is it that we're...

In a day and age where neuro physiology and neuromarketings (subliminal influencing) is becoming...

Avvy has the NAX API running on the chinese chip from before the corporate war. It is spitting...

Information is order. Order takes an object (or a medium), so there is no information in a vacuum....

The other one, the one called Borges, is the one things happen to. I walk through the streets...

A true secret can be called...

Example 01 A numerical value is assigned to every letter of the alphabet. Adding the values of all...

Se tu esperava estar mais velho pra ler uma manchete como essa: "David Hanson merges...

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In prefacing this question, I thought of beginning with a kind of disclaimer, stating that...

I make art on plexiglas, acryilc plastics. I love the act of painting backwards. The first...

Or, The Risk of Extrapolating Linear Trends Against Non-Linear Systems. A common habit in forecasting, particularly in energy futures & economic growth, is to take roughly linear trends and extend them over the next few decades. The notion is that there is inertia in what has already happened that will make the future look markedly similar,...

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Revolving Realities is an autoreactive installation, one that plays with our sense of...

Waterpod Project (renderings by James Halverson of Lux Visual Effects) A recurring theme for...

What is the meaning of meaning? We can view meaning at two levels. First, it is a cognitive...

Did you know that in one day a full-grown oak tree expels 7 tons of water through its...

Truth, in her ...

Global cultural fusion seems to be the by-product tomorrow, of our global communication networks...

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Been a while since I posted a monster:

I have some thoughts about new community. In Russia we have very corrupted police, law courts and...

Our Hell is only Time

I have been working on a video that explains the history of human evolution through repetitive...