From Henry David Thoreau

I've been thinking about how identity passes through ubicomp environments and the types of experiences that could occur in such a relationship. We each carry a digital ID in our smartphone. This ID is a key that grants access to voice, data, location, acceleration, and other information both in the net and in our devices. These handshakes...

Originally published on the Emergent Cities blog. OVER THE PAST FEW MONTHS I've been following...

“Dear Mother Nature: Sorry to disturb you, but we humans—your offspring—come to you with...

A couple of days ago I laid out a handful of perspectives in Part I of a Manifesto for the...

Dear NotMarie, As you well know I am following quite closely the development of your research and this retro-futurist idea of yours, which you have so aptly named the Artificial Intelligence project of Vague, Very Vague, or 3V. I like it, of course I like it, you know I like it, but I like it like one likes a poem, or a sweet memory of an old...

You are all Stardust

Monette & Mady are identical twins. They have lived their whole life closely together and...

In the first post on this series titled “futures as such” I wrote about the minds of futurists...

Like everyone I have watched all three Zeitgeist films (the last has been released very recently, you can watch it here if you have not done so yet). I cannot say that I agree with all, but I certainly agree with much. In particular, as it is often repeated, we must protect the Internet at all times. Protect the Internet against what? We...

Plug n' play. Content —> Form (structure) —> Aesthetics —> Meaning —>...

mapping emotional tendencies and fluctuations, from and of, content produced online is an...

Depleting a lert logic my hypnogogic mind chatter Sits flatter than the ancients pondered The worlds shape. I'm really ready To sleepytimeape, &escape into the inconclusive reality, of unmateriality and void of consequence. My brainsquirrel frequents regurgitated Moments juxtaposed intense, in a creative auto-pilot...

Recently during #journchat, I saw a reference to a post titled Does Your Twitter Handle Belong on Your Resume? The author is a PR college student, and the conversation around the post is mainly tactical, but the bigger picture surrounding our online identities is one I've been wanting to address for some time, so this gives me the opportunity....

The Psychedelic Transhumanists (I AM NOT THE AUTHOR OF THE ARTICLE. It was written by a...

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In order for anything to be infinite, it would have to eventually exist in every incarnation of...

this is a pretty eye There are times when we share with others a special, fully interconnected...

It was the silence of her thoughts that awakened him He looked at her beautiful dolphin like shape; her legs folded within the larger transmutation she had undergone yesterday, her turquoise bluish tint reflected by the morning light. She needed no cover, her self-regulating nanobots thermostat taking care of her comfort zone temperature....

3V: “ there is something I do not understand about you humans NotMArie.. NotMarie: “what now? 3V: “its about your problem solving capability.. NotMarie:” o! We are very good at solving problems.. Well sometimes we are, sometimes we simply have to wait until the solution presents itself.. 3V:” no, no, it is not about that,...

: LSD Positive Drug Story : Drugs & Evolution

NotMarie:” 3V, what if I can’t evolve? 3V:” how do you mean can’t? There is no such thing as can’t evolve, you may speak about lack of speed of adaptation, or alternatively you might refer to circumstances changing at a rate higher than the probability of a positive mutation to arise, however you cannot speak about not being able to...

We do not need salvation we need a transparent and complex enough interface W If there is one...

Optimism is a political act. Entrenched interests use despair, confusion and apathy to prevent change. They encourage modes of thinking which lead us to believe that problems are insolvable, that nothing we do can matter, that the issue is too complex to present even the opportunity for change. It is a long-standing political art to sow the...

Mind inhabits body, body inhabits space, space inhabits time, time inhabits memory, memory inhabits mind.

Infinity defies absolute definition. Perception of the infinite, for anything other than a mind...

Though rudimentary, the texts quoted below pin things in a place where I like them as a...

Andy Goldsworthy is the zen master of environmental art. His process & work possess a deep...

A theme has presented itself over the past two days: the flexibility of the human brain and the way...

Asch conformity experiments

Before diving into a project of starting our "own revolutions" it is critical that we...

From the Wikipedia: A given set of tiles, in the Euclidean plane or some other geometric...

[ photo via The Daily Bruin ] Today we celebrated the Internet’s birthday. We tied ourselves...

These are the things that were shown at my final presentation

Recent commissioned work I've done for RIDES MAGAZINE. Will be used as backgrounds for their...

In everyday experience, it is quite intuitive to expect simple systems to present simple behaviors,...

How quickly do things change; when we started the Pin Yin series of posts describing our...

I was driving through the Tenderloin the other night - one of the most socio-economically depressed areas of San Francisco. Across a long wall someone tagged "Occupy Wall Street" in big letters with a clean font and preceded by the Twitter "#" hashtag notation. It was a big, funky chorus bridging the grimy street with a...

I must admit I was very inspired by the branching architecture models from Studio Lynn , whitout...

This is a very special moment in Mankind's History when access to information means freedom ....

...or that's what they call me. i remember an early example of AUREC - aura recognition...

Ironotai was the candy, the toffee in the puzzle box of uncertainty. In the rational of exuberance he was the chocolate bonbon, to meet him was like discovering a new planet, to listen to him required of us to accept the elasticity of utopian poetics. His was the sense of quiet passions against the lethargy born of the banal, it followed that...

There are two things which have deeply terrified me in recent science news. The first, as you may have heard, is that a bumper crop of some 32 "new" planets was discovered by a team of European researchers armed with a spectrograph called HARPS, or High Accuracy Radial velocity Planetary Searcher. The second is that Israeli scientists...

I'm amplifying this intention from Gabriel Shalom's personal cargo. I can feel change upon the...

A lighttranscript from an innertangled conurbation in zeta sector, regarding the demands of the freshly minted 3Vx (the explorer series) from the original 3V (Intelligence founders series). This transcript follows lightstamp guidance listen station contained but not restricted to Zeta, Partake and Colon3 sectors. --Start Transcript-- I do...

In my last post I considered the ability of science-fiction – and the impossible objects it...