Looking close to the mechanisms running inside atoms core, especially the change of colorloads and...

The Generationsgame is a social network set up to start the search of natures Sourcecode. So its...

Neogrid e.V. is a german a non-profit association and runs an independent encyclopedia on...

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

As I listen to Ruben Blades haunting rendition of Patria, I hear the gratitude he feels to those who have gone before, whose efforts have made the comforts and pleasures we enjoy, and whose labours, inspiration and invention we use in our efforts to improve this world and to contribute our gifts in the most effective way we can. Even in this...

2 players each have 1 coin. Each round of the game, each player secretly lays their coin down heads...

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"We are as gods, and we might as well get good at it." Stewart Brand There is much...

How do we make sense of our futures? How do we experience the presence of multiple possible...

“The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution. “ Paul...

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

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,...

The meaning of ku, which is a part of the Buddhist concept of Three Truths (Ke, Ku and...

Between 30 June - 2 July, a group of researchers, scientists, scholars and an artist met at the Korea Institute of Technology in Saarbruchen, Germany for the Human Document Project. The three day event, organized by Dr. Andreas Manz, was an intensive programme of presentations, brain-storming sessions and more presentations (followed by good food...

The source of the term Journal for the Traction TeamPage database is Douglas Engelbart's NLS...

by George Por : As the CI meme is spreading fast online and off-line, so is the range of significance associated with it. For some, it is the ‘wisdom of crowds,’ for others it is the inter-subjective field of energy that comes into being when people interact from a position beyond ego—to name two of the popular branches of CI. Each of...

This is an explosive seed regarding the evolution of your superhuman powers. Very soon we will...

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

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

Medium Size PS symbol. The power of positive thinking.... "Hope"...

"If anybody wants to access your time or knowledge or influence, they would have to pay for it...

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

Models vs. Patterns by Monica Anderson Grasping how things are. Why understanding comes first,...

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

DARPA is USA's military's advanced technology department. There's a lot of geniuses working...

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

Kevin Kelly, author, Out of Control Chapter 2: HIVE MIND - The collective intelligence of a...

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

It started as a comment to Starwalker’s post but in the course of writing it gained the volume of...

If only you could see what I have seen with your eyes The off-world replicants in Ridley...

The following lines originate from a discussion that sparked with Kurt, following an article...

Most people do not understand PLUS and MULTIPLY when they see them in things they use almost...

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

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

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

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...

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

On Social Learning, Sensemaking Capacity, and Collective Intelligence

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

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

Junto & beyond - further generations and explanations coming soon. also find full image...

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

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...

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...

Monica Anderson discusses the ongoing paradigm shift - the "Holistic Shift" - which...

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

Brian Robertson wrote the Rule of Individual Action: No matter how clearly we’ve defined the rules, policies, and processes, we will occasionally see a need for action which doesn’t fit within the defined system. In most organizations we're tempted to hide such Individual Action for fear of blame, but doing so costs the...

Here comes a collection of thought sketches (or the microevolution of ideas revealed, if you...