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Science
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Biology, Computation, Design, Ecology, Innovation, Internet, Science, Technology
The Internet of Living Things
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 [...]
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Computation, Consciousness, History, Myth, and Story, Internet, Language, Media, Philosophy, Psychology, Sociology, Technology
Program or Be Programmed
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 [...]
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Design, Internet, Morphology, Sociology, Technology, Visualization
New City : the Future of On-Line Social Networking
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”:
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Art, Cognition, Collective Intelligence, Consciousness, Design, Flash, Media, Philosophy, Projects, Psychology, Science, Synchronicity, Technology, Visualization
CogSpace : Hong Kong Exhibition
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
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Art, Cognition, Collective Intelligence, Computation, Design, Flash, Internet, Lab, Language, Media, Morphology, Philosophy, Politics, Projects, Psychology, Science, Sociology, Spirit, Technology, Visualization
CogSpace : Collective Mind Map
05.01.09 | Permalink | 6 CommentsInterested 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 [...]
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Collective Intelligence, Fractal Marketing, Internet, Sociology, Time
Join the Plaxo Plexus
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 [...]
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Archeology, Archetypology, Astrology, Astronomy, History, Myth, and Story, Politics, Time
The Lincoln Code
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 [...]
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Design, Language, Visualization
Curriculum Vitae Word Cloud
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. [...]
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Computation, Design, Media, Technology
Human-Computer Interface Revolution
I’ve been doing some deeper research into Tangible User Interfaces (TUI), and specifically–multitouch screen technologies. As a Flash developer, I’ve been waiting for the day to put my interactive art onto a touch-screen surface. I’m amazed to discover just how far things have come, and especially in the blooming creative community developing around open-source and [...]
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Collective Intelligence, Computation, Internet, Language, Morphology, Sociology, Technology, Visualization
Informing the Book of the Collective Face
FaceBook.com has become the most-trafficked social network in the world–surpassing MySpace in unique users, competing with Google search for total page views, and recently surpassed 100,000,000 simultaneous users. Accordingly, we can consider FaceBook the core representation of the dynamic social web, and a significant arena for in-formulating (bringing “form” into) the collective body and mind. Here are a few interesting elements [...]
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Blueprints of an Ontological EngineerWP Cumulus Flash tag cloud by Roy Tanck requires Flash Player 9 or better.
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