As an active participant in the Information / Communications Technology domain (ICT), this is perhaps one of the most influential videos I have seen in the last several years.  We are now, again (as with the emergence of the Internet), on the verge of a new great frontier in human ingenuity. I’ve been tracking the [...]

Douglas Rushkoff drops the word at SXSW conference on programming reality: “We are attempting to operate our society on obsolete code. … Legacy sytems to legacies we don’t even remember. … How much of this is the bias of the medium, and how much is it the biases of the people who program our technology [...]

Greg Lynn explains the concept behind New City, a new virtual world.  The architectural topology of such a world “map” is based on transmorphic manifolds, and context relative perceptive “lenses”:

Here are photos of the CogSpace exhibition and presentation at the PolyTech University “Toward a Science of Consciousness” conference in Hong Kong (June 11 – 14, 2009). More photos here by David Chalmers: http://consc.net/pics/hongkong.html

Interested in participating in a collectively formulated multimedia vision-logic model representing the multidisciplinary knowledge domains of Cognitive Science and Consciousness Studies?  If so, read on … I’ve been developing this interactive, 3-dimensional model, and it was just recently accepted to be exhibited and presented at the Asian Consciousness Festival in Hong Kong this June.  You [...]

I just sent out a massive automated email blast to 100s of people that I’ve interacted with over the years to “connect” on the Plaxo social network site. I can imagine that most people probably don’t know what Plaxo is, so I’m writing up this description to inform people of why they might want to [...]

A secret message was discovered today inscribed on the interior of Lincoln’s historic watch.  The message was written by a watchmaker who was making repairs on the President’s watch on the day of the first reported shots of the Civil War.  The message remained there for nearly 150 years in complete secret (even to President [...]

Another experiment in fattening the tummy and the pocketbook of the masses: A slideshow with great information on superfoods, the Elements for Life company, and a financial opportunity: [slideshare id=1045786&doc=elements-for-life-ppt1212-1235040841384395-1] See the slideshow here. You can find out more about all of these superfoods from SuperFood Life – Elements for Living (a distributor of Elements [...]

Superfoods are delicious and can offer extraordinary nutritional and health benefits to the body and mind! I created a list that shares essential information on an assortment of superfoods, such as: maca, blue-green algae, raw cacao, Tibetan goji berries, golden Inca berries, alkalizing greens, cordyceps, colloidal gold, phytoplankton, noni juice, and one of the very best raw sacred chocolate [...]

After I recently made some major updates to my Curriculum Vitae (latin, “course of life”), I went on over to Wordle.net and made a graphic word cloud from all thirteen pages of the document’s content.  In the visualization, bigger words represent more frequency of that word in the overall document.  Color and position are randomized. [...]