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The human species is rapidly and indisputably moving towards the technological singularity. The cadence of the flow of information and innovation in the infoverse demands a response. As hyperconnectivity increases, our minds are becoming progressively more coupled and cybernetically...
 
Whilst it may be possible to soon grow your own clothes with synthetic bacteria, or indeed...
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The Total Library
 
I am currently reading one of (probably) the best books in the hard sci-fi genre, it appears that...
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A little change to what the porn industry invented gets you the cheapest robot body. Baloon women...
From BenRayfield
 
hyperparameters of hyperbiology, hyperneurology and hyperphysics communicate as they build...
From gavinkeech
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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...
From Yissar
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Statistically inputs and outputs to neurons subconsciously without extra hardware. A neuron...
From BenRayfield
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Are we able to develop holographic mathematics to describe the holographic universe? Is...
From Hixgrid
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This post was based and inspired on the writings of Brian Christian Turing test The objective...
From Mariana Soffer
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The following argument diverges from what many of my fellow futurists often believe. It does so...
From QESelf
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“Social media has come to be understood as little more than a marketing opportunity. However, we see it as quite possibly the catalyst for the next stage of human evolution and, at the very least, a way to restore bottom-up participation, p2p value exchange and decentralized innovation to the realms of culture, commerce and government.” –...
From Venessa
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The brain is a world consisting of a number of unexplored continents and great stretches of unknown...
From Mariana Soffer
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Increasingly, we live in a world defined by flat networks. Folks like Clay Shirky, Ben...
From chris arkenberg
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Logically it makes sense why they act like particles when observed and waves when not observed....
From BenRayfield
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phases are cycling through the increase of momentum brought on by interplay sequenced through...
From gavinkeech
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Originally published on the Emergent Cities blog. OVER THE PAST FEW MONTHS I've been following...
From Seb Paquet
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Having participated in the development of the Polytopia Project since its outset here on...
From notthisbody
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infosynaesthesia & memetabiosis :: biological. neurological and physical :: science and art...
From notthisbody
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The Total Library
 
Zeesy Powers Zeesy Powers gave us some impressions on the following questions for the Future...
From Gabriel Shalom
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Aaron Koblin Aaron Koblin gave us some impressions on the following questions for the Future...
From Gabriel Shalom
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During the last year, I've been discussing many times about the role of reading and writing in a...
From Ilparone
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Today, we are asking ourselves new questions: Can water save information? What is reality -...
From Hixgrid
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projection = z axis = key driver = force (( part a = establishment ( society + physicality ))...
From gavinkeech
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The Total Library
 
“Dear Mother Nature: Sorry to disturb you, but we humans—your offspring—come to you with...
From Wildcat
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emotion = y axis = keydriver = emotion(failure) vs. passion(success) emotion = (+y)failure...
From gavinkeech
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time = x axis = keydriver = effort(+idea/-reality) vs. momentum(+reality/-idea) time =...
From gavinkeech
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What is the universe? Why is it here? How can we use it? Those questions have been debated for...
From BenRayfield
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“Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance...
From Wildcat
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XYZ axis distribution a core of existence in entanglement ( personas / metaconstructs ) is a...
From gavinkeech
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A human being consists of 50 trillion cells. In each cell are biological and physical...
From Hixgrid
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Every thread sings singularity, together they make a melody... Some short reflections and...
From Ilparone
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#Inforhythms are an experiment in aural representations of annotations or metadata of information....
From notthisbody
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“I believe that consciousness is, essentially, the way information feels when being...
From Wildcat
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Whats really happening overall? Details like disagreements between countries are not important...
From BenRayfield
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A short aesthetic exploration into longevity and its implications on our emotional lives- including...
From Wildcat
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We behold an increase of attention to two very interesting concepts: plasticity and collective....
From starwalker
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[Cross-posted from Humanity + Magazine.] Emergent technologies often inspire great excitement...
From chris arkenberg
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personas pictoglyphs visionary … the main component is that of the eyes: the foresight...
From gavinkeech
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(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...
From Venessa
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This iteration/generation of the Polytopia Project map (derived from notthisbody's conversation...
From gavinkeech
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(Part 5 in the series: Mind, the need for a new model) Does consciousness have a shape? It...
From Spaceweaver
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Preface The creative process emerged with the writing of Montevideo, here on Space...
From Xaos
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I had the pleasure to meet several other polytopians in the flesh recently at the TransVision 2010...
From notthisbody
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“In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of...
From Wildcat
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All credit goes to H+ Magazine and R.U. Sirius An Interview with James Kent about his new...
From alok subbarao
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mapping emotional tendencies and fluctuations, from and of, content produced online is an...
From gavinkeech
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The universe equals Chaitin's Constant. I will explain how to use it statistically to create a...
From BenRayfield
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“Two billion years ago, our ancestors were microbes; a half-billion years ago, fish; a hundred million years ago, something...
From Wildcat
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My full-length article "FutureSelf: Emerging digitized life patterns and a personal future...
From Ilparone
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Intelligence-community is describing the interconnection of artifical intelligence, natural...
From KenoNitro
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