October 4, 1957 - the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I. The world's first artificial...

This post is meant for those who are in the strange habit of finishing what they start. All others...

With new technology comes new possibilities to execute technique. If we look to the trend of...

I just ordered this pen. I can't wait to try it out. The idea is simple. You hold the pen up to...

The following is a chunk of my thesis written for the UCLA Sociology department. I conducted six...

And so does the conversation continue NotMarie:” you do realize you are an unnatural construct, don’t you?” 3V:” in what way am I unnatural?” NotMarie:” well for one, I constructed you, for second, you were not born of a womb and for third your kind is nowhere to be found in the natural world.” 3V:” you must be joking...

Radical Strategies for a Conected World The net is our future. "Of all the endeavors we humans are now engaged in, perhaps the grandest of them all is the steady weaving together of our lives, minds, and artifacts into a global scale network. This great work has been going on for decades, but recently our ability to connect has...

In June.07 I made (for a company in Brazil) a short study about 2 recent (until that moment) Brian...

Generative art made by Leonel Cunha with Context Free : www.contextfreeart.org Context Free...

i had this idea for a solar generator (sorry the clumsy pic) the solar laser eats up the...

It is time again for the annual SXSW interactive technology conference in Austin.A very cool...

The five steps of mysticism visualized for your viewing pleasure & knowledge. Photographs...

Mind uploading (also occasionally referred to by other terms such as mind transfer, whole brain...

What follows is a paper by Klaus M. Stiefel which summarizes the latest studies into the mechanisms of the salvia divinorum induced hallucinogenic experience. This paper is reproduced here in full WITHOUT permission or knowledge of the original author. [begin paper : ] The consciousness-altering effects of Salvia Divinorum are likely due to...

Viktor Frankl

Movie characters from the Terminator to the Bionic Woman use bionic eyes to zoom in on far-off...

The Hyper-Evolution of Self-Evolution has already begun to shatter the bones and frames of everyone...

Edward Burtynsky. China Recycling # 2, Cutter, Fengjiang, Zhejiang Province, China...

When particles collides, what do we see? A glimpse of infinity? Jared Tarbell explores simulated...

just found this on flickr. have not heard of it. but very interested to see this exhibit, if it is...

About heterotopias... Here is a text of Michel Foucault, that I found very interesting, even...

This is a comment that grew too long - a continuation of the polylogue following Xárene's post, Social Networking Tools and Our Future Society It got me thinking about two experiences I've had recently. Love The first one involved someone that I met who had just moved to Europe 20 days before from New York. He moved here to be with his...

Two realms of self-enhancement In three(ish) parts: Introduction The concrete realm The...

A futurist discusses the coming merger of human biology and our technologies, exponential...

The games become tools. Tools become games

Emotions and the feelings are not a luxury; they are a means of communicating our states of mind to...

Yesterday; while waiting for a bus with my friend, I stopped to glance across at a middle aged man...

A project Proposal: Polytopia , Our Mind Habitat in the Infoverse A dream you dream alone is...

I had a strange feeling when I saw one of the "animals" walking in the beach.

species are now swimming in their primordial pudding , they will gain more and more...

The Library of Alexandria was an enormous repository of ancient wisdom situated in Egypt. Due to...

A reminder. Watch the whole series.

presenting the creamy dreamy and taffy world of San Francisco artist MARS 1

Following the last week announcement that Scientists have Put Exercise In A Pill This is a round...

We’ve reached a point in our civilization where counterculture has mutated into a self-obsessed...

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2019 Ultra-short -1- Franco the Gondolier I became nervous, it was 22 hundred hours and no one was coming for dinner, not that there was anything interesting to eat, just the Chinese carb rations dropped from above, and yet I thought that my fellow Italian refugees, will admire the prowess with which I, Franco, the old time gondolier, from...

The Law of Conservation of Energy, aka the first law of thermodynamics, is a very fundamental part of physics, and is instrumental to our understanding of the universe. But it also has profound theological implications. The second law of thermodynamics is often thrown around by God lovers as an attempt to justify their faith empirically. But...

"Experimental Studio no.1" 2005 bonemeal, glue 157 x 270 x 17 cm The...

"The brain acknowledges and remembers shapes first. [...] Color is the second in the...

Here is a photo log (for some videos of our project, check here) of the ongoing project that was...

I’ve always been sort of troubled by the notion of ‘social networking’ websites, and as a result have never bothered to be involved in them – other than once, and that was business related. I don’t consider space collective to be one, as it’s intention does not seem to be to be a place to ‘hook up’ and show off all of the...

Do check the absurd Dr. G von Hagens from Germany who's experiments now are shown in musea through...

“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested:...

Hello everybody. I am new to space collective and consequently have only had a limited exposure...