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...

My last post can be read under a lot point of views. This time, I only want to focus on a global...

I stumbled onto this model early on in my studies of consciousness. The studies aforementioned were...

The Global Brain ,GRID 08, Nova Spivack

I have been thinking about the goals of this website. Are we trying to create a heaven in space? This would seem to me to be a worthy goal, although we as a species have made a pretty miserable job of making any sort of heaven on earth. This seems to be the achievement of certain individuals, some of whom we may have met or read about and...

May 2008 issue of the Journal of Evolution and Technology, published a fascinating article titled:...

Sun The center, the hub, attracting all the VIPS, Where the hoi polloi meet and greet, The wise...

As the universe undulates in its attempt to find the perfect equilibrium of light and time,...

proposal for an immersive computational system images originally created for the Premonitor...

Architecture, Ultra Light Carbonfiber Composite Material Research Studio Cornell M.arch...

Sukhavati - Place of Bliss: A Mythic Journey with Joseph Cambell part one part two

As the intellectual contours of Polytopian existence are coming into focus in Wildcat’s recent...

'Refer to the discourse of music improviser and wine and ask around less the secret of...

infinity is a cyrcle, I wrote, in a script I invented. It is not a typographical error, it...

This project (Beijing Futures: One World, One Dream. Whose?)was begun to encompass a full...

Recently the Institute for the Future, based oin Palo Alto, California, US, has initiated a project...

Are we Cultural Creatives? Not to generalize, but I do get that feeling around here. It's a good feeling. Cultural Creative. I like the sound of it! I first encountered this term when I took one of those online quizzes that my friends were all taking (we are so interested in forming our identities from other people's ideas), What Is Your World...

Richard Dawkins is Oxford University's "Professor for the Public Understanding of...

From my observation, I have found that technology evolves much the same as nature evolves,...

Here's a mesmerizing ten-minute video from the Darwin@Home project (which harnesses idle...

Is language is a purely cultural phenomenon or not? Obviously it's the most successful...

The war is over It's over It's over

The following is a journal type entry so please excuse the poor writing. there is so much complexness in every detail about everyday it is funny to try to recall and focus on every aspect. there is enough to keep the outer layer of the mind and thought processes occupied. I have been realizing lately that it is possible to employ inner layers...

California based NeuroSky is providing solutions to effectively interface bio-signal...

All Together Now: Developmental and ethical considerations for biologically uplifting nonhuman animals. George Dvorsky

#Polytopia-(the emergence of) - is a work/proposal in progress# We are called to be architects...

Unfortunately this isn't a post to share something, but to ask something of you instead. I...

Dave Eggers wrote this piece for Esquire Magazine after being named one of the 75 most influential people of the 21st century. THE FUTURE OF WORDS Author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers is one of the most ambitious and activist literary figures of his generation. We asked him if reading has a future. It’s...

We looked through the door and saw composers writing music, musicians rehearsing, and for some reason there was a banker(?) in the room. Now, since composers like John Cage, Pauline Oliveros, Karlheinz Stockhausen, etc, the doors have been thrown wide open. We walked into the room apprehensively though. We watched (and perhaps talked) to the...

Gil Scott-Heron