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A crash in civilization is an instance when people (either individuals under government control or...

To initiate the research of the project, we researched what Machinic Phylym essentially "is", and how it pertains to the recreation of the voyager golden disk. The difficulty in this research is that, in itself, Machinic Phylum cannot be defined as clearly as one would hope. Nonetheless, we were able to define, on a somewhat vague and...

Looking at an old Arabic script in The British Museum Islamic World gallery, I found myself...

As I think about all these new and interesting topics brought up in this class of programming...

It’s been many years since the children began leaving home and going off to school. Longer still...

A crash in computing is a condition where a program (either an application or part of the...

I had a strange feeling today while at my day job. I happen to work alongside a friend of mine whom I was seeing in the past. However, things turned rocky, and we went our separate ways about two months ago. I hadn't been working since around the beginning of December, as I was placed on medical leave. Today was third day back, and the first...

Found image: This is a Tesseract, or hypercube, which is a 4-dimensional figure. ...

As an emblem of order, the crystal symbolizes objects created by adding self to self in order to...

In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy the super computer Deep Thought predicts that the...

In human world, we are often bounded by various identities. There are not just names, but also tons of other terms in relation to multiple fields and occasions. We do not just identify ourselves but also our dwelling nature by giving names to anything we see, smell, touch, and hear. However, our identification and classification are so messy that...

This manifesto is a few years old. In the years since Crystalpunk has organized workshops, and events as well as written a lot of texts and code that hopes to explain the vision. This is still the most basic text Crystalpunk has to explain what we are trying to do and I think it might be of interest to the readers of SpaceCollective. THE...

...rarely drink water. Instead, they have a highly water-efficient metabolism (their kidneys are at least four times more efficient at retaining water and excreting salt than those of humans) and manufacture water through a metabolic process called oxidative phosphorylation. One special feature of the kangaroo rat is the animal's efficient...

Antony Gromley, English sculptor. Gormley describes his work as "an attempt to materialise...

To aid in the gestation of a new project, I've been watching a whole lot of Carl Sagan...

I've been watching a lot of speeches from TED.com lately, and I've been tremendously inspired by their positive energy in a time that the media would paint as rather daunting. I hope to do something with my life as good as those noble people at TED are doing. As good as they are, it is difficult to criticize the people of TED, aka...

Blaise Aguera y Arcas: Jaw-dropping Photosynth demo Using photos of oft-snapped subjects...

Advanced Beauty, sample clip from flight404 on Vimeo.

Cultural Computing Different cultures have special rules and common elements that humans...

"What if?" An Alice in Wonderland command. But what if size didn't matter to, say,...

I first really discovered the concept of a technological singularity when I read The Spike:...

Adolf Loos' Ornament and Crime holds a favourite ammunition of mine in defense of immateriality: I have therefore evolved the following maxim, and pronounce it to the world: the evolution of culture marches with the elimination of ornament from useful objects. How would I define what ornament is today? Ornament, a constant in decoration culture,...

I found these strange images I made a while ago. Simple fractals were generated then taken and...

To imagine: in a few years we'll have people regularly living and working on the moon. And, someday, hopefully not too far off, the possibility of humans living on more than one planet for the first time in this history... how far we've come for monkeys with hats.