Saturn: Evolution of Technology* Awesome advert. Agency: Scholz & Friends...

Simulating the joint evolution of quasars, galaxies and their large-scale distribution This...

In homage to a thinker who's storytelling indeed creates realities. Excerpts from the short story...

Partial or total lack of sensation in a part of the body......... or mind.

B/A MAGAZINE Editors include Damon Zucconi, Nikolay Saveliev, Vadik Marmeladov, Jesse Kanda,...

A new website built using the open source Box2d physics engine. All content act with physical...

This was originally a comment to Shandora's first post. But I just started writing and decided to give it some space of it's own... Consciousness and awareness, are more or less the same thing. If we take self-awareness out of the picture, it doesn't seem too different to the computers we use today - they are able to respond to changes in...

The Atlas of Cyberspace illustrates graphically, the shapes, structures and complex forms of the...

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A friend showed me this link. I don't have time to read it completely right now, but it was interesting to peruse, and seemed relevant. Interesting arguments to ponder. cheers. -s I am not the first, nor the only one, to believe a superorganism is emerging from the cloak of wires, radio waves, and electronic nodes wrapping the surface of our...

I dig this one much more than the first installment, as it has solutions as well as hypotheses...

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi says creativity is a central source of meaning in our lives. A leading...

MOMA design curator Paola Antonelli walks through the groundbreaking show "Design and the...

Humanity Plus (formerly the World Transhumanist Association) has launched h+, a stylish, web-based...

... and Earth! I just read about the Flag of Earth and flew so far... Via Conceptual Trends The Flag of Earth was created by James Cadle inspired by the debate before the first astronauts landed on the Moon about the flag to be planted as a symbol of the accomplishment. The American flag, which doesn't represent all inhabitants of Earth...

DNP and metaio implement the first augmented reality museum application with a handheld system in...

I have always been intrigued by those who choose (or are forced) to hide themselves in plain sight....

To begin, the data: " As I breathe the sky anew Lungs contract faintly white (Body, scatter in the dust of the sky) The top of a gingko tree glitters again The zypressen darker Sparks of the clouds pour down." -Kenji Miyazawa "Spring and Asura" " So the biosphere, it seems, in its persistent evolution, is doing...

Homard (2008) from Romain de l'Ecotais on Vimeo. Here's one of the short-movies edited for a...

Maybe everybody subscribe The Technium by Kevin Kelly. Anyway it's here if someone don't. "Cloud Culture While there is only One Machine, there are many cloud computers. Each is a collective of computers acting as one computer. ..."

An eloquent perspective by Terence McKenna on the idea of a spiritual path for all and an impending...

Buckypaper is a material composed of carbon nanotubes that is 10 times lighter and over 500 times...

Who can come over? It is a long night. We are in the kitchen. Half past eight. Forever. ...

I haven't seen something about that here, maybe I'm missing something.

1974 >The Arecibo radio telescope message: a ceremony for making the telescope aimed at...

Thomas L Friedman calls for action! If we want to save the planet we need to work togehter. He...

designs and grows plants and trees to grow into more or less utilitarian form. It should be...

Ivan Tihienko has created a very impressive concept for how we can use the computer, without having...

via laughing squid “A Shared Culture” is a new video that helps explain the idea behind...

Threats to Humanity Part 2 Isaac Asimov in a Key Note address of The Humanist Institute, January...

Threats to Humanity Part 1 Isaac Asimov in a Key Note address of The Humanist Institute, January...

Anybody who uses the Internet should read E.M. Forster's The Machine Stops. It is a chilling, short story masterpiece about the role of technology in our lives. Written in 1909, it's as relevant today as the day it was published. Forster has several prescient notions including instant messages (email!) and cinematophoes (machines that project...

http://vimeo.com/1841471 This animation shows all scheduled flights over a 24h period (based on 2008 data). Every day 93,000 flights are starting from approx. 9,000 airports. At all times there are between 8,000 and 13,000 airplanes in the air. This animation was produced for the high definition 3D-Globe "Orbitarium" in Technorama - The...

mind08 talks on seedmagazine • Paola Antonelli, co-host • Ben Aranda • Jessica Banks • Ayah Bdeir • Adam Bly, co-host • Laurene Boym • Chandler Burr • Erik Demaine • Drew Endy • Marc Fornes • Hugh Herr • Chuck Hoberman • Jamer Hunt, co-host • Natalie Jeremijenko • Chris Lasch • Christophe...

The Art of Complex Problem Solving Filling the Vacuum An interesting and highly useful...

New Omodaka video for "Asadoya Yunta" (Which my translator said "cheap...

Prometheus Rising was my entry point into a new freedom. I found the book through some...

Sometimes the most fascinating books are the ones we cannot read. Here are two illustrated texts...

The Selfridges store in London approached me to create a window installation. The project was...

“If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.” - Samuel Adams -

Army developing ‘synthetic telepathy’ Similar technology marketed as a way to control video...