Part I The internet is not yours, it never was yours. I'm sorry, it just isn't. It is owned by large telecommunication companies that decide who does what with their infrastructure. Like any public infrastructure, users have to adhere to certain rules for the whole thing to function. The problem is it is easy to think that while spending...

Experiment, never interpret. It is possible that writing has an intrinsic relationship with...

If we were to replace our bodies, one atom at a time, would we be the same person? One would think...

A fascinating talk about emotions and feelings by Antonio Damasio, one of the most renowned...

NotMarie:” 3V, what on earth are ambiguous virtualities? 3V:” how do you know about ambiguous virtualities? NotMarie:” it was on my holoscreen this morning when I logged in, just the words, no link, and no reference.. I am sure it came from you.. so what is it? 3V:” well, it was supposed to be a surprise, a linguistic concoction I...

My work is inspired by a number of Science Fiction authors including J.G.Ballard, Aldous Huxley,...

The following is a scenario on how I think that a MetaTopos could manifest. AMOEB(OS)...

Everyone Ever in the World is a visual representation of the number of people to have lived...

The following article is long and quite condensed; I have therefore divided it into five posts I...

As a kid growing up, my favorite video games were multiplayer games. Having spent so much time...

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...

3V: “what do you mean this is your banana?” NotMarie: “what do you mean, what do I mean?” 3V:” I mean, in what sense did you appropriate the reality of this banana into your existential phase space? “ NotMarie: “I didn’t!” 3V:” this makes no coherent sense then, when I wanted to observe and deconstruct this banana,...

I was thinking about Spaceweaver’s post about immortality and remembered that in the early...

Paul Stamets, American mycologist & author, is a passionate believer that mushrooms/funghi,...

“There is no such thing as a substantial self (as a distinct ontological entity, which could in...

Qualia has a shape Has a form Has a fluid form Has a dynamic fluid form If qualia ~is~...

Punchcard Phone by Marek Bereza Steampunk Tendencies aka Ways in Which the 21st Century May...

The significant problems we face today cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at...

Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred...

My name is. Initiate sequence My name is ThreeV or 3V short for Vague, very Vague. No Delete. Repeat. My name is Vaa short for Vague and again. Nah Delete. Repeat. My name is Vata short for Vague and then again. Nope Delete. Repeat. My name is Vav short for Vague and vacuous. No way Delete. Repeat. My name is Vaf short for Vague and...

In the grapevine of web enthusiasts it is said that this is nothing less than the a major step in...

World Builder from Bruce Branit on Vimeo. A strange man builds a world using holographic tools...

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

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

Enter: The Transbeing Frank Herbert wrote that: “The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.” And of course who in his true and integrated mind will not agree to this statement? So let us start or begin our knowledge of the coming singularity by observing the prediction wall that is in front of us, the...

We are, as specie, vastly underestimating the speed with which we are approaching the moment of singularity. Though it is true that most of us have heard about or are involved, to this or that extent, with the coming technological singularity, it is also true that the vast majority of those involved are underestimating the immensity of the change...

I think that notthisbody's post on the current state of a Polytopia shows how promising the notion...

Man is no longer the measure of all things. The dimensions of human endeavor have expanded from...

Academia in the age of the search engine Historically, the world’s universities have been the...

Many people have lived long enough on this planet to notice a distinct change in the nature of...

# this is a verbatim report from the second Xims/Humans meeting that took place on Phobos base station, june 2029, earth standard. -- The Xims ambassador asked: We do not understand what is this ‘self’ thing your race keeps on ranting about? Oh! Its not much, a kind of fiction if you like, The Human ambassador replied A fiction?...

Contact Omar Rafael Carreño for more information. orcarrenor@yahoo.com The press release is in French. I ran it through Altavista Babelfish for crappy English: EXPANSIONISME - MANIFESTE 4 Paris, 2004 – Caracas, 2007 After the II World war, the compass of the art of avant-garde pointed towards Uruguay and Argentina. After the...

Philosopher, architect, designer, entrepreneur, author, teacher, artist, eco-engineer, and...

I've been out of rhythm for awhile w/ serious photography, usually only taking snaps, flickr, etc. ...

"The big demonstrations in London and Washington against the US attack on Iraq a few years ago offer an exemplary case of this strange symbiotic relationship between power and resistance. Their paradoxical outcome was that both sides were satisfied. The protesters saved their beautiful souls: they made it clear that they don’t agree with...

Tktile� is a small keyboard layout for a PDA format computer or pen tablet . The purpose of the circular keyboard is the loop system that detects the number of times the cursor orbited around the character.The closure tag is triggered when the cursor leaves the keyboard area. I am currently working on a one handed hardware keyboard that...

Euclidean pure light emitted by tiny electronic LED components, become the perfect medium to...

Venus has always been one of my favourite goddesses. Peacock moss, doesn't actually look...

At 17 miles long Scoresby, on the east coast of Greenland, is the longest fjord in the world.

“Our gardens need native plants to support a diverse and balanced food web essential to all...

"Is it not at the moment when the human being disintegrates into cruelty that his...

The posts at emplaced (in What happen to nature?) and the internation initiative (in terrestrials)...

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