Scientists are reporting an advance toward a memory device capable of storing data for more than one billion years.
Alex Zettl and colleagues note in the new study that some of today’s highest-density experimental storage media can retain ultra-dense data for only a fraction of a second. They note that William the Conqueror’s Doomsday Book,...
And so does the conversation continue
NotMarie:” you do realize you are an unnatural construct, don’t you?”
3V:” in what way am I unnatural?”
NotMarie:” well for one, I constructed you, for second, you were not born of a womb and for third your kind is nowhere to be found in the natural world.”
3V:” you must be joking...
Although it focuses on individual action (so it kinda opposes to my structuralist views of the social world), I find Goffman's interpretation of the human action quite interesting. Those of you who have read Erving Goffman know exactly how "catchy" his sociology is, and those of you who haven't...well I can tell you this: you don't...
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...
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...
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...
"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...
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...
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'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...