"Oh, to be alive in such an age, when miracles are everywhere, and every inch of common air throbs a tremendous prophecy, of greater marvels yet to be." Walt Whitman And what marvels we have in front of our very own eyes! Marvels of technology and science we could not have foreseen but always desired, marvels of understanding and...

‘Matter’ becomes soft. It is the softening of matter, of ourselves, of our genes, of...

In 1996 former lyricist for the Grateful Dead and internet pioneer, John Perry Barlow, addressed...

Here are a few thoughts inspired by Wildcat's post The ColleX. I came up with the following...

I’ve been tweeting long enough (3 years) to know that there is no necessary correlation...

As the intellectual contours of Polytopian existence are coming into focus in Wildcat’s recent...

In my last post, I went over several challenges facing Polytopia. Now, I will attempt to share...

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

I have been thinking about the goals of this website. Are we trying to create a heaven in space? This would seem to me to be a worthy goal, although we as a species have made a pretty miserable job of making any sort of heaven on earth. This seems to be the achievement of certain individuals, some of whom we may have met or read about and...

The human element of the future is an oft neglected subject, while Ray Kurzweil draws up graph...

"I live on Earth at present, and I don't know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am...

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

It is an ordinary day. I have been doing some manual chores. The kind that usually requires no...

As life in our world becomes ever more complex, there is an ever increasing pressure on us to...

In Spacewaver’s recent post about the Singularity University he mentions a discussion concerning...

I have been wondering lately on the actualization of the web’s nervous system, especially...

The web cultural revolution Genius. Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving...

Yet another augmented prologue It took me a while to figure how to continue from here. There...

The significant problems we face today cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at...

intelligence: n. the capacity to acquire and apply knowledge (this post is a group Twitter...

Encoding and decoding appear in contemporary context as a fundamental feature of technology, in our...

In many languages, Greek and Latin roots constitute an important part of the scientific...

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

Part 6 in the series : The Rise of the Cyber Unified Civilization The peculiar ‘liquidity’...

I admit that I am not the superstitious type. Superstitions have never resonated with me as my mind...

(Part 5 in the series: Mind, the need for a new model) Does consciousness have a shape? It...

If you are at a certain stage of awareness and being, in this polytopian unfolding, the...

Citizen Kane -> aesthetics -> story -> reality -> perception -> senses ->...

You use a metaphor to describe some concept. The metaphor isn’t the thing you describe - it’s just a tool that you use. But someone takes the metaphor, and runs with it, making arguments that are built entirely on metaphor, but which bear no relation to the real underlying concept. And they believe that whatever conclusions they draw from...

“To think what thought is not prepared to think is that which alone deserves the name of...

lightness and darkness when the mind is asleep, but in dream, without the eyes to distract,...

A New Direction In AI Research Monica Anderson proposes adding a new target to ongoing AI...

Personas/Metaconstructs = State/Mode :: Identity/Experience Filter = Timelines...

Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger...

The USA government is arrogant and proudly hangs their balls out for all to see, thinking...

Monica Anderson explains. Reductionism is an amazingly powerful strategy for leveraging...

Want better money? Jay, together with Venessa, Gabriel and Patrizia on Emergence Collective...

Facebook has 100M people that play every day an average of 30 minutes. This equals to 50,000,000...

#Inforhythms are an experiment in aural representations of annotations or metadata of information....

A human being consists of 50 trillion cells. In each cell are biological and physical...

“Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance...

During the last year, I've been discussing many times about the role of reading and writing in a...

infosynaesthesia & memetabiosis :: biological. neurological and physical :: science and art...

The following argument diverges from what many of my fellow futurists often believe. It does so...

Exploring the concept of cyber-identities, their application, evolution and necessary reformulation "Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be." Orson Scott Card (Ender's Game) There are many reasons for this essay but the main one is to emphasize why we desire, all of us humans that...

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

We are, as specie, vastly underestimating the speed with which we are approaching the moment of singularity. Though it is true that most of us have heard about or are involved, to this or that extent, with the coming technological singularity, it is also true that the vast majority of those involved are underestimating the immensity of the change...

... our children can only do as bad as we are doing, and this is the challenge we are facing - we...