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...
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...
Dear Polytopians,
The Polytopia project is now open, and the flow purports worthy and interesting happenings.
Your inputs, essays, papers, links, suggestions, comments and
sharing are the lifeblood of a collaborative effort to ascend.
Intelligence is being amplified as we speak
Let us make the Polytopia happen
Welcome
Wildcat
Life is about experiencing. There is no one in your life more central as a character than yourself. Therefore, I decided that experiential protagonism is the way forward. What is it? To me it is the essense of life as a living, breathing human being. Every day we interact, learn, teach, experience. From these experiences we grow. Central to this...
Human beings versus machines, or machines as instruments of human designs?
The answers to these two questions would have been obvious years ago: Human beings, of course, machines are instruments of human design! But now days when we speak so much of progress, science and technology as if progress, science and technology were in themselves...
Talk about a bad place to have a light bulb burn out...The crew aboard the ISS is struggling with lightbulbs burning out in the new Japanese module.
"Almost half of the 21 fluorescent lamps aboard Japan's experimentation module Kibo on the International Space Station (ISS) have burned out, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)...
Combine a dimly lit room with Sigur Ros, Radiohead, Flickr.com, and an array of other comfort-rot activities, and you get a recipe for the dissolve of interest of most other things in life. Namely, my job as an industrial designer in the field of visual merchandising. I've been spending the past year partaking in the subtle manipulation of the...
This is part I of a two-part post on my thoughts on the Polytopia. In this first one, I will aspire to present the challenges we will face in Polytopia. In the next post, I will examine possible vaccines and counterpoints that could be built into the architecture, as well as possible constructive uses that could help all of us...