Started as a comment and evolved into a response to Keen's Terrance McKenna and DMT I used to...

The skinny: To determine whether physiologic responses to a drug could be changed by...

The molecule DMT (N,N-Dimethyltryptamine) is a psychoactive chemical that causes intense visions...

Subatomic particles do it. Now the observation that groups of brain cells seem to have their own version of quantum entanglement, or "spooky action at a distance", could help explain how our minds combine experiences from many different senses into one memory. Previous experiments have shown that the electrical activity of neurons in...

Sometimes when we perceive the world we perceive without language. We perceive spontaneously. But...

Throughout human history, people have been asking the same questions about the nature of the...

NotMarie: “I have a question for you 3V” 3V:” I am, as always at your service.. please ask” NotMarie: "Since I am struggling to understand you, it came to me that one of the main riddles I carry with me in your regard, concerns the manner you treat history and for that matter, memory as well.. I have this nagging feeling that...

A technocratic society has the goal of: Producing optimum quality goods and services at the lowest possible energy cost, and distributing the maximum amount of goods and services to everyone. Our broken economy has so far prevented this from being possible. The constant need for money has forced producers to continually produce poor quality...

7 am, sunset blvd.

Mind inhabits body, body inhabits space, space inhabits time, time inhabits memory, memory inhabits mind.

Wired: January 5, 2010 By pushing the refurbished Hubble Space Telescope to its very limits as...

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

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...

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...

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!

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