by Kim Joon

I've been thinking a lot about this polytopia without offering any of the thoughts, so here, for whatever they're worth, are some of them. Mind work in the old world: Scenario One: Each mind walks into a room on two legs, they chose a seat and take out a pad and a pencil. Everytime someone offers an idea it's written down on a white...

We listen to the voice, the tune of acceleration distributed in million labs, the undercurrent wave...

Prologue When I first set out to write this essay to my peers I was not particularly sure of the best possible way to discuss topics of such a polarizing nature. Moreover, even more daunting a task has been trying to conceive the correct vehicle with which to relay that information. The advent of the internet as a means of communication allows...

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CityWall is a large multi-touch display installed in a central location in Helsinki which acts as a...

Moebius display is a hardware art piece. This video is the first presentation of this moebius...

Source: WIRED The Robotic Musicianship Group at Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology just...

click to play A project I did for an electronics class at UCLA using a stepper motor and...

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Good afternoon. This is my first post here at the space collective and I wish you all a warm...

Our Conscious experience usually includes a level of self-awareness. As in The observer and the...

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This is an extreme kind of Spidrons. From side view Erdély - Ballegooijen

A modular system From decagonal, hexagonal spidronnests with special outer angles and rhombs you...

Once conscious systems are virtualized, we will have the ability to do some unusual things, for...

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In a recent post by Connor, who is one of several recent SpaceCollective members whose...

Il y a des choses que l'intelligence seule est capable de chercher, mais que, par elle-même, elle...

Sometimes, to evolve as human, we have to look deeper trying to empower the simply and natural born human basics.

"I gave a talk yesterday at the Web 2.0 Summit. It's a short talk, only 10 minutes long, so...

I've been finding a lot of news articles about space and exploration lately, which really gives me hope. Maybe I've just been in the dark, but the last decade or two hasn't exactly been teeming with discoveries in space. chris_mackintosh's post about the glowing aurora over Saturn is just one of many examples on this site and all over the web....

Recently, watching a few video's on Henry Harkram and Andrew Schwartz reminded me of this...

Is it possible to create a complete model of the human brain? Henry Markram is well on his way,...

Please have a look! This piece was made from eight quadrilateral saddle spidron-nest and some...

part of the text: The technological singularity takes place when the human race succeeds in...

"More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if...

Keith Peters codes in ActionScript 3.0 via booooooom!

My Grandfather said: The first testament was a covenant between God and Abraham The second...

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Lately I've been wondering if we're really the most superior species on earth, as we have assumed...

The Rosetta Disk Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of...

Be aware...Epithelium, a cellular boundary layer in organic physiology, will be used as an...

“If the idea is to yield to virtuality and bring it out, where is the virtuality the final...

In process towards my end presentation for my Progress & Innovation class I've been sketching some more ideas about Mozilla. This first one is all about the current browser war and their progress towards the imminent "Web 3.0" like the world of Aurora and other next-gen internet internet ideas. Internet Exploder is a bit...

I have been reading with great interest and pleasure Rene's latest post bringing forth with...

is it possible that there is no Albert-László Barabási on spececollective? I didn't filter this...

I am happy to say that I have learned the truth and am joyfully living it...

One of the most recent examples of a narrative that deals with post-human issues is the Old Man´s...

I really enjoy my carnal existence; eating, drinking & exercising. But strangely I quite appreciate the idea of living forever - despite all of the negative connotations associated with it - what if this "Polytopia" was to be a hyperspace - kinda like second life, but controlled in the first person by our electrical selves,...

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Watch this amazing short document on CBS 60min about the first brain machine interfaces. Little...