i live in an amazing city, although a frustrating one as a futurist – nyc – where 19th...

In an article about the upcoming 40th anniversary of the moon landing (July 20, 2009), the...

First post in the Space Collective. I hope I don't disappoint as posting some thoughts in this community next to some brilliant people makes one feel very humble. For those not aware of what the Aesthetics of Failure means, and using my own words, I'd describe it as the end result of a failed attempt to produce a desired outcome from a...

"Onto what surface shall a theory of aesthetics and consciousness be mapped?" Gregory...

As a kid growing up, my favorite video games were multiplayer games. Having spent so much time...

Tentative Architecture of Other Earth from Xárene on Vimeo. The wearers of Tentative...

I found this and thought I'd share it. Leo Tolstoy “What Is Art?” The art of the future is not the possession of a select minority but a means towards perfection and unity. People talk of the art of the future, meaning by art of the future some especially refined new art which they imagine will be developed out of that exclusive art...

"Demonstrating that we have a biologically programmed positive response to nature is more...

TRARN - Is a short Science Fiction piece I have been working on in my nearly non existent spare...

http://szyzyg.arm.ac.uk/~spm/neo_map.html The image below is an up to date map of the solar...

Monitoring the architecture of science: a studious, imaginative investigation of space-bound and...

Times are changing so fast that we almost don't have the time to accommodate change . Most of us manage to adapt but mainly in a minimal functional level. All information flows globally in a high level increasing speed rate, but between the huge amount, the piles and piles of terabytes massively spread, targeting all our perceptual senses, we...

June 2009, "Sweden's Pirate Party has won a seat in the European Parliament. The group - which campaigned on reformation of copyright and patent law - secured 7.1% of the Swedish vote. The result puts the Pirate Party in fifth place, behind the Social Democrats, Greens, Liberals and the Moderate Party. Rickard Falkvinge, the party...

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C.P. Snow (1905-1980) No Field of Study Is An Island Is it important to understand...

THE PAOMNNEHAL PWEOR OF THE HMUAN MNID Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it...

by Steve Omohundro, Ph.D., president of Self-Aware Systems (http://selfawaresystems.com) a Silicon...

Dear Spacecollective! I feel glad about being invited by Wildcat to this community of forward...

At 9:45pm on Wednesday (03-Jun-2009), I was pondering the manifestation of crop circles and how...

Here is a detailed outline of my inquiry into the concept of New/Modern Nomadism. Please offer...

PSYCHOGENESIS: . "The human brain is made up of one-hundred billion neurons - and...

"I have published both fiction and nonfiction books, but finding a publisher for fiction is much more difficult than for nonfiction. More generally, if the ability to find a publisher for nonfiction can be compared to walking across the street, finding a publisher for fiction is like walking from New York to California, backwards. According...

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Are you ready to have your mind blown? What if you can't count on another intelligence to speak your language? How do you communicate your accumulated knowledge? This is essentially the problem facing terrestrials in search of life "out there." We can take a clue from a past culture so strangely advanced (even by today's...

Watch these 4 fascinating short videos about the fundamental riddles of existence. Some food for...

There is no doubt that language offers both demonstrations of and a special window into the social...

But Its Not Google (its Microsoft) "So far in 2009, there are four and a half websites created EVERY SECOND as the web continues to expand. While more searchable information is cool, nearly half of all searches don’t result in the answer that people are seeking. At the same time, the way the world searches is changing. You want more than...

I am glad to find this community of forward thinkers, please say hi if you come by my neck of the woods. -Steven

I've been wondering about mind uploading. If our mind can be fully uploaded to a non-biological operating platform, and we do invent the necessary hardware requirements to house one, what will that machine have to do to convince a user to adopt it? If the subjective experience remains fundamentally private and unique, how could uploading be...

So I guess this would be it. I've had this account for over 3 months now, but I just haven't...

The web cultural revolution Genius. Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving...

Based on Hyperdimensional Physics, Hoagland successfully predicted the historic...

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Kraken is a short motion video. These images are a sneak peak to the work in progress based on...

This is a book I made of pages from other books, creating a re-configured new narrative. It might...

"A machine in the roof rotates with a speed of one revolution per hour. Every minute...

"Of course, foretelling the future in detail is impossible. But just as you can use Newtonian math to predict where a shell will land from a gun, so I think with Fractals we can now predict the shape of what will come."