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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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Collective Intelligence, Language, Philosophy, Sociology, Spirit, Technology
The Over-Language
Words themselves are becoming antiquated. Rarely enough do we even find an arrangement as worthy as these: Today, Homo sapiens is faced with a rapid modification of his environment, a transformation for which he is the involuntary collective agent. I am not implying that our species is threatened with extinction or that the “end of the [...]
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Politics
California Calling
I just spent a few hours at the Swing State Mega-Phone Bank HQ in San Rafael, California (just a few miles from my home in Fairfax) making calls to people in Ohio and Iowa–urging them to vote on Tuesday. The center was really buzzing with Obama campaign supporters. One full-time volunteer told me how California [...]
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