Whilst it may be possible to soon grow your own clothes with synthetic bacteria, or indeed...

M.C. Escher Peeled Faces "We are flesh---self-aware, questing, problem-solving...

Today, we are asking ourselves new questions: Can water save information? What is reality -...

Biology and social order Social organization is considered to be the platform of culture....

make something which experiences, reacts to its environment, changes, is non-stable... ... make something indeterminate, which always looks different, the shape of which cannot be predicted precisely... ... make something which cannot 'perform' without the assistance of its environment... ... make something which reacts to light and temperature...

With the discovery of the three Super Earths found recently, I started thinking. Maybe the...

When Sony introduced the PlayStation in 1994, it wasn’t at all obvious that they would be...

"Toward a Civilization of Collective Intelligence" identifies the most important changes...

A Short Introduction "If you don’t admire something, if you don’t love it, you have no reason to write a word about it". (Deleuze and Parnet, Dialogues, 144; in O'Sullivan, 5) Though it may not have been recognized as such at the time of its publication, today, The Logic of Sensation has come to be recognized as one of...

Groups and collectives come in an abundance of variety; they poetically coalesce into the...

Collapsing time and distance To further investigate the far-reaching implications of a virtually...

“It was the cucumber that made the difference, the crunching made real, the angst of eating disappearing, the jaw unperturbed, and ears flowing smoothly into the motherland of silent mastication. When the sight appeared unblemished, the vision colorful and engaging, riots subsiding into the longing moment, flow ensued. It was flow all...

The Rosetta Disk Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of...

Marshall McLuhan has been mentioned in passing in various comments here on spacecollective,...

I have always been interested in human individuality and self-expression... The persons...

I rarely share CNN stuff; they suck in journalism. But this little window into Shishmaref, Alaska...

Our Conscious experience usually includes a level of self-awareness. As in The observer and the...

A technocratic society has the goal of: Producing optimum quality goods and services at the lowest possible energy cost, and distributing the maximum amount of goods and services to everyone. Our broken economy has so far prevented this from being possible. The constant need for money has forced producers to continually produce poor quality...

Every molecule, atom, in our body... is self-interested... is self-aware, and determined as...

http://www.home-2009.com/us/index.html IN A FEW SHORT DECADES, HUMANITY HAS UPSET THE BALANCE...

Manned Cloud by Jean-Marie Massaud

I saw one of these fascinating TED stories a couple of days ago. A story about restoring a complex...

It's interesting to think what the world of today would look like to a visitor from the 19th...

A brilliant new piece of motion-visualization by Semi-Conductor Films. The secret lives of...

Today I carry within me the recognition of the freedom of beingness as an embodied conscious...

I had an interview and some artworks published in Luminous Magazine Issue #2 recently, here is the last question and my answer to it: You have stated that you believe art will save the world. How do you see this occurring in day-to-day life? This is a complex multi-faceted question and there are so many different ways to answer it. For one...

The Koren Helmet is a snowmobile helmet modified in order to produce weak electromagnetic...

Readers: Do you think in hypertext? The era of the linear tome is dead, information is a web -...

"We are now in the steep part of the exponential trajectory of information technologies in a...

Outstanding Reading Material I have carefully selected a few of the outmost important texts on...

Their love was immortal, their union absolute He was rich; she just had an accident,...

just the other day i was having a conversation with rene about the usefulness of data...

Klaus Haapaniemi www.klaush.com

Richard Hayes over at the Washington post has a critique of Ronald Green (Ronald M. Green is a...

Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5. London Symphony Orchestra. For a comprehensive experience check out the full length. I was first introduced to The Emperor Concerto while watching the film version of Kurt Vonnegut's 'Harrison Bergeron'. A science fiction short story based on the idea of an egalitarian society achieved by handicapping...

A human nervous system receives and processes roughly 1 million bits of information per second. Per...

This post is an appendix to The Next Great Revolution in Reality. Also, please read the first part...

Without meaning to enter too far into the realm of religeous discussion I'd like to share this...

Turbulence, cont. from flight404 on Vimeo. Audio by Goldfrapp (Deer Stop), as found out by...

The quality of being, as an aesthetic phenomenon, is radically altered in the age of...

The moon is a rock. But it's also Selene, Artemis, Diana, Isis, the lunar deities; an...

Over the past few months, we've been discussing the various skills needed for effectively operating in a world characterized by information and accelerating change, and I've been assembling these ideas into a framework for a new thought architecture. This post will be the first in a 12 part series, and draws its influences from the fields of...

Etomyr was an exploratory engine we had devised for extending our predictive powers in the realm of hyperspace, it was, and one must admit, quite an ingenious device. Etomyr consisted of a series of bioengineered nanobots, arrayed as an intergrid of precisely weaved hybridium atoms, held as an ensemble by a Won neural mesh. Of course we could...

"All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds...

There is no thing endowed with life - from man, who is enslaving the elements, to the nimblest...