Crowdsourcing works on the premise that a reward and a challenge are posted, people respond, vote for the best ideas and the "best" idea wins. This is not a new idea. Venture capitalists have for years spoken of the need to hit a "ten-bagger" on one of their deals to pay for the 9 that did not make it. Anyone in the idea...

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Scientists develop software that can map dreams || The secret world of dreams has been unlocked...

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(this is my final paper for cybernetics class and for graduate school. it is a theoretical metalogue between myself and gregory bateson. many of his phrases and passages are pulled directly from the book Steps To An Ecology of Mind) vm: i want to understand the ecology of mind, how it works. I want to understand how technology is...

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Just wondering why the gallery is never updated any more and if it ever will be again? I love the gallery here and often direct people to it, I'd like to see it keep growing.

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Painting, Its Ways and Faces "The adventure of painting is that it is the eye alone that can attend to material existence or material presence [...]" (39). Deleuze relates to two definitions of painting - one by line and color, which is visual, and the other by trait and color-patch, which is manual. He then proceeds to...

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there's a trend today of searching for hidden messages in ancient texts and works of art, and there...

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Drop City is a legendary microcommunity, it is a model, and, ultimately, an abandoned project....

not an author and a reader … a collision of co-creators not reading or watching … playing and procreating not a product … a process not a tidy straight line … a mosaic … a pattern that you can view from any perspective not a beginning and an end … the end of the beginning, middle and end not a frozen narrative … a collective...

The world as we know it is in disruption. Maybe it's always been in disruption, pushing us through cycles of apparent chaos so that evolution can continue and new paradigms emerge. Thanks to social technologies, we're growing into a globally connected communication system, and seem to be heading towards a tipping point. But what is it that we're...

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Ouch! perspective please! Documentation before change the society, many points are welcomed....

Long ago... No one tore the ground with ploughshares or parcelled out the land or swept the sea...

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This past Saturday I worked with Mike Liebhold, Gene Becker, Anselm Hook, and Damon Hernandez to present the West Coast Augmented Reality Development Camp at the Hacker Dojo in Mountain View, Ca. By all accounts it was a stunning success with a huge turn-out of companies, engineers, designers, makers, artists, geo-hackers, scientists, techies...

An intimate moment with the one i love.

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Over 100, actually, if you count that any given subject past the "General" section contains a series. I haven't been able to get through this list yet, but it's a doozy!: 100 Incredible Lectures from the World's Top Scientists