In the Polytopia, everyone can customize their interaction with cyberspace and meatspace. There...

When we launched SpaceCollective towards the end of 2007 we had no idea whether the “forward...

A call for a new relationship between thinking man and the sum of our...

This was originally a comment to Shandora's first post. But I just started writing and decided to give it some space of it's own... Consciousness and awareness, are more or less the same thing. If we take self-awareness out of the picture, it doesn't seem too different to the computers we use today - they are able to respond to changes in...

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

I have been reading with great interest and pleasure Rene's latest post bringing forth with...

"The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the...

City of Words by Vito Acconci, 1999

Here is another beautiful animated visualization of a collaborative project on the...

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

From its inception Wigglism has promoted the notion that the truth, or that which seems true, is...

"At the dawn of societies, men saw their passage on Earth as nothing more than a labyrinth of...

And yet the future is already in our midst; it is the extending tendrils of a past, laying ahead of...

The Signtific Lab is a public laboratory for developing and sharing cutting edge ideas about the...

If you like Fat-Boy Slim, it just makes this video even better. Great Stats. Excerpt:...

Now, when the tears find no ink but a keyboard to excite. Now, when the arch of life is...

In our upcoming film The Terrestrials, made by a cast and crew of SpaceCollective members and...

First of all, I ask for forgiveness, I can hardly manage to express myself in English with some clarity, not to speak of correctness, apropiateness or whatever "-ness" you might wish or expext. Second: (Side number two, said number two) I would like to open a question here about Emerson, Thoreau and that line of beautiful...

Recently I came across a very interesting article by Timothy Lenoir, bringing a fresh perspective on the concept Singularity and posthumanist future. In the introductory note Lenoir writes: Most researchers agree that there is no reason in principle why we will not eventually develop conscious machines that rival or surpass human...

The Serious ARG (Alternate Reality Game) In a 2007 article, columnist Chris Dahlen (of Pitchfork Media) voiced a much-discussed ARG concept: if ARGs can spark players to solve very hard fictional problems, could the games be used to solve real-world problems?[37] Dahlen was writing about World Without Oil, the first ARG centered on a serious...

Here is the text and slide share of a lecture I gave at ECCO research group seminar at the free...

“A philosopher’s ontology is the set of entities he or she assumes to exist in reality, the types of entities he or she is committed to assert actually exist. Although in the history of philosophy there are a great variety of ontological commitments, we can very roughly classify these into three main groups. For some philosophers reality...

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

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

"Collective Intelligence (CI) is the capacity of human collectives to engage in intellectual cooperation in order to create, innovate, and invent." - Pierre Levy + James Surowiecki + Mark Tovey I wrote a post a few days ago, Is Twitter a Complex Adaptive System?, that proposed the idea that Twitter may be evolving into an entity of...

Punchcard Phone by Marek Bereza Steampunk Tendencies aka Ways in Which the 21st Century May...

We've entered into a new year, the channels have been flooded with list upon list of 2010 predictions and trends, and now we're laying the foundations for how we'd like to characterize the times - David Houle is calling it the Transformation Decade, a tweet from @RitaJKing mentioned The Imagination Age, and Seth Godin rang in the new year with a...

Possible New Careers Emerging from Advances in Science and Technology (2010 – 2030) Final...

in the future, engineering will abandon workshops, screws and nuts, no clean room facilities,...

The world as we know it is in disruption. Maybe it's always been in disruption, pushing us through cycles of apparent chaos so that evolution can continue and new paradigms emerge. Thanks to social technologies, we're growing into a globally connected communication system, and seem to be heading towards a tipping point. But what is it that we're...

If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth — beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals — would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals? — George Bernard Shaw Imagine a being so vast and powerful that its theory of mind of other...

Part 5 in the series : The Rise of the Cyber Unified Civilization If it works its already...

AR Aura Recognition Gabriel Shalom, KS12 Presented in the production track of the 1st...

Not only is the spirit of our age changing, growing more optimistic. Our ideologies and...

LEVELS OF CONVERGENCE by Renata Lemos, Lucia Santaella Part 2 - Mind and Matter;...

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...

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

LEVELS OF CONVERGENCE by Renata Lemos, Lucia Santaella Part 3 - Information and Meaning;...

On Social Learning, Sensemaking Capacity, and Collective Intelligence

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

Crossposted from Emergence Collective The Social API Lately there has been quite a bit of dialogue about writing a Social API (application programming interface) so that individuals and organizations can participate in "cross-platform" emergent innovation and action in a modular and plug-and-play manner. In our attempts to define...

by Leon Tan and Tomas Skovgaard Mixed Reality Publics Networked publics are mixed reality...

Hans Rosling, genius of data visualization at Gapminder leads us to grasp surprising big data and...

Phenomenal short story. The Last Question by Isaac Asimov — © 1956 The last question...

The first people to live on the sixth moon of Jupiter were the painters of Europa. They followed a...

This is one of 50 posts about cyborgs - a project to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the coining of the term. CC image from mondi. “He would see faces in movies, on T.V., in magazines, and in books. He thought that some of these faces might be right for him...” The word “cybernetic” derives from a Latin word, kybernetes,...

Preface The creative process emerged with the writing of Montevideo, here on Space...

(this is my final paper for cybernetics class and for graduate school. it is a theoretical metalogue between myself and gregory bateson. many of his phrases and passages are pulled directly from the book Steps To An Ecology of Mind) vm: i want to understand the ecology of mind, how it works. I want to understand how technology is...

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