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Founding the Singularity University is perhaps one of the most essential events to happen lately....

What? Yesterday I met a Polytopian A what? A Polytopian! And what on earth is a...

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A short part of a larger talk, what is interesting however is the distinct difference...

"You've made this day a special day by just your being you. There is no person in the...

Eventually, everything connects.

Al, other people agree with your communication model. This one is from Goethe: We talk far too...

Love One Another Love one another, but make not a bond of love. Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup, but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread, but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone. Even as the strings of a...

The Large Hadron Collider is finally turning on. A quick step backwards: the LHC is particle accelerator, the largest of its kind, underwritten by all the wild money in science, a ringed tunnel some 27 kilometers long, deep underground, crossing the French-Swiss border at four points. It's been over twenty years in the making and has...

Looking at an old Arabic script in The British Museum Islamic World gallery, I found myself...

Heart in Voh, New Caledonia Yann Arthus-Bertrand's gorgeous aerial photos certainly deserve some...

I am sitting on a couch staring, no, gazing into a white screen while the only noticeably audible...

A crash in civilization is an instance when people (either individuals under government control or...

Ceramic jellyfish by Toronto based artists Alissa Coe and Carly Waito

When I heard the learn'd astronomer, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before...

We have drugs in our heads, they've been there since birth and exist in more or less ample supply....

Using photos of oft-snapped subjects (like Notre Dame) scraped from around the Web, Photosynth...

I strongly oppose attachment to ground. By becoming locked in our position, we become dependent on...

In the realm of the beyond not even the old ones knew where he came from. On an early spring the beyond simply recognized that there was someone else in the game. He never claimed his name, he was always polite and never ever demanded his status to be acknowledged, and hence he didn’t have one. What he did do however, is go to the old ones to...

In response to schmuck's post about the openness of SC, I thought I'd bring up another issue the...

This mini-paper was given at the Escapologies symposium, at Goldsmiths University, on the 5th of...

As we're building out human-centered next-gen profiles for the Collaboratory, we wanted an...

The ultrasonic plane landed smoothly in this deserted island, I have no idea what it’s called and truth to tell I care not for its name, its somewhere in the pacific of that I am fairly certain. The fact that there were only four of us in the plane was of no concern to me, I am not the social type and apparently none of the others were as well,...

The digital settles in as background. We remember less and query more. Our identity play would...

Hi Space Collective. I am interested in the possibilities of genetic technology. To tell the...

I arrive now at the ineffable core of my story. And here begins my despair as a writer. All...

I felt that "White on White" was important, but I couldn't explain it. I kept talking...

An article by Jonah Lehrer, written in 2008, recently appeared on SEED — Jonah called for a collaboration between contemporary arts & sciences and suggested that realm of science should be more open to the artist and his interpretations of life, since artistic insights often lead to the discovery of truths. I couldn't agree more. I...

No-Where is my Home, ergo ... Now-Here is my Home. video...

Philosophers have long wondered about the connection between metaphor and thought:: "We...

Now I am a frog, far away from the shadow of an idea… Hijikata...

I've been teaching non-art/design undergrads for a few years and the one question I get every single year, innocently, is "What is art?" My responses have been philosophical and abstract, probably leaving them as baffled as before they asked the fateful question. In a way, I avoided answering the Question. This year, I've found an...

I’ve watched last week “ Transcendent Man” - the documentary about Ray Kurzweil, his life and ideas. For anyone who read the book “The singularity is near” or watched one of his lectures in the recent years there is not much new in the film. While I’ve got a lot to say about Ray Kurzweil and his work (maybe in another post) I would...

In-progress–feedback welcomed. [Drawing upon cultural anthropology, my current...

My grandpa has brain cancer and is probably going to die soon. Of course I feel sad about this. I see how it's affecting my parents, siblings, cousins etc and it seems as though they're all... more sad?... than I am. I want to feel really badly for Grandpa and his situation, thinking his $10 scratch ticket is a $4 million dollar winner must be...

Abstract. A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution. Digital signatures provide part of the solution, but the main benefits are lost if a trusted third party is still required to prevent double-spending. We...

Illustration by Charles Glaubitz The object as product. The time of the product as merely the...

There is a lingering humour, a taunting presence in the mundane scenery of sensory experience....

what’s the connection? I found this essay very interesting and wanted to share it. Copywright...

The evolutionary prospect of an ethical criterion Evolution is blind. No scientific theory...

Redefining human identity …. By August 3rd 2092, John B. Derrick will be 25 years old. He is...

what takes an idea from inception to actualization & execution, the visualization &...

While doing some research for a project I stumbled upon this book and thought I'd quickly share some excerpts: The difficulty lies in the evolutionary process itself. Empathic consciousness has grown slowly over the 175,000 years of human history. It has sometimes flourished, only to recede for long periods of time. Its progress has been...

My full-length article "FutureSelf: Emerging digitized life patterns and a personal future...

To Dutch designer, Tejo Remy, a fence could be so much more than simply a separation or...