In Part 2 of the HFD series, I pointed out the main differences between monopticism, panopticism,...

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caught @ the American hotel, Amsterdam. 1997

by Terrence McKenna This essay first appeared in the fall 1989 issue of Whole Earth...

Creating both environmental and technological awareness in our postmodern world is absolutely...

Image courtesy of www.gigaom.com The image above is pretty self-explanatory. The...

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Punchcard Phone by Marek Bereza Steampunk Tendencies aka Ways in Which the 21st Century May...

au from Vicent Gisbert Soler on Vimeo.

I am a bad reader. Slow, ill-disciplined, with a wandering mind. I will rarely manage a...

Everything is real but the narrative makes the difference. Participatory media creation...

This is a study that explores the notion of direct, participative and processual democracy. ...

Virtual technology has allowed the creation of new social and commercial worlds existing in...

Happy new year everyone! This is the edition of the First Ten Percent of the New Millennium. Its continuously the time for Millennium bridge, Millennium tower, Millennium biosphere... you name it! Never stop believing. Today is the full moon, blue moon and partial eclipse of the moon. "Blue Moons are rare (once every 2.5 years). Blue...

Click on the image to start the video Puma Punku, truly startles the...

I realised the other day that taking seemingly harmless ideas to their logical conclusion is a...

This past Saturday I worked with Mike Liebhold, Gene Becker, Anselm Hook, and Damon Hernandez to present the West Coast Augmented Reality Development Camp at the Hacker Dojo in Mountain View, Ca. By all accounts it was a stunning success with a huge turn-out of companies, engineers, designers, makers, artists, geo-hackers, scientists, techies...

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In my last post on HFD, I covered the basics of holopticism, noting that a many-membered view of...

The Expanding Earth Theory is a geological theory that exists for a long time, but has always...

I found this marvelous clip of Carl Sagan explaining science, set to music. Enjoy!

Personally, I love having my stupidity handed to me on a silver platter every now and again. It...

The world spins out-of-balance Long before organic grocery stores and hybrid cars, our ancestors...

i stumbled upon altered states last night via netflix and would recommend it to anyone who...

From SEED: By Veronique Greenwood CHAOS IS EVERYWHERE IN THE NATURAL WORLD, PRESENT IN THE...

It would be far easier and would require less energy to build new, efficient cities than to attempt to update and solve the problems of the old ones. Future By Design proposes a city that would use the most sophisticated available resources and construction techniques. Its geometrically elegant and efficient circular arrangement will be surrounded...

I recently spoke at a conference where I introduced a broad futures concept that I have been developing: Holoptic Foresight Dynamics. HFD (as I will refer to the concept hereafter) is a strategic model that can help organizations, governmental entities, cultural institutions, and societies to become foresight competent – and even develop...

“It was the cucumber that made the difference, the crunching made real, the angst of eating disappearing, the jaw unperturbed, and ears flowing smoothly into the motherland of silent mastication. When the sight appeared unblemished, the vision colorful and engaging, riots subsiding into the longing moment, flow ensued. It was flow all...

intelligence: n. the capacity to acquire and apply knowledge (this post is a group Twitter...

Every molecule, atom, in our body... is self-interested... is self-aware, and determined as...

A videomusical self-portrait. Berlin 2009

Although Henry Markram (head of the Blue Brain Project and speaker in this video) never really...

Tango for upright piano and practice room. New York 2004

It takes $26 dollars to take over the world? A Hack of the Drones: Insurgents Spy on Spy Planes...

on december 21 1940 frank zappa was born… i personally have the highest esteem for the gifts he bestowed… if you haven't delved into them you may be missing out on something… information is not knowledge knowledge is not wisdom wisdom is not truth truth is not beauty beauty is not love love is not music Music…is the...

czech danceschool group photograph, author unknown

From the beginning of time, black holes were scaring children. Now they are not so bad, they spread creation beyond the limits of individual galaxies.

To make a link to a clean resizable page with just the video content: Copy the URL: Ex: Erase the "WATCH?" And change the " = " for another " / " Ex: Or just: Youtube´s url + dash, v, dash + alphanumeric video id. Elegant!

An Article that address energy use and computation speed. Computers and the immense amount of power...

I rarely share CNN stuff; they suck in journalism. But this little window into Shishmaref, Alaska...

While this is a departure from the nomadism project I've been posting up here, I thought it would be all right to share this essay I just finished, on the ethics of community service. The Ethics of Service Y.J. Wu, 2009 Abstract The aim is to demonstrate that the fundamentals of community service, as distinct from those of other forms...

The modern computer has been essential to coming to understand how the Social Brain works,...

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By Clara Moskowitz When physicist Vitaly Efimov heard his theory had finally been proven, he ran...

weather report; 32°C, no wind at all

In case you missed the Intensive Fields Conference @ USC last Saturday (12.12.09) the discussions...