The Archives
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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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Fractal Marketing, Internet, Technology
CMS Trends
Everyone and their grandmother’s dog needs a website with good design presentation, key functionalities, and the ability to manage the content themselves or as an organizational team. This later aspect is referred to as a Content Management System (CMS). Years ago, it was typical to the internet industry to contract a “Web Master” to manage [...]
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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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Design, Flash, Lab
DecaFolio
I have just completed a major upgrade of my web portfolio!It had not been updated in 7 years (since 2001)!!! I Now have a full decade of concentrated web accomplishments of nearly 100 projects to show: www.michaelgaio.com/portfolio The Flash splash page is also updated in hypercosmic brilliance as well: www.michaelgaio.com
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Archeology, Collective Intelligence, History, Myth, and Story, Media, Psychology, Science, Spirit, Technology, Time
Diamond Life
07.30.07 | Permalink | 2 CommentsAll that we say and do over the next few decades will … become mythologized onto the very atoms of a glimmering hyper-diamond–brilliantly cut with the multifaceted perspectives of a shared human legacy of immeasurable value.
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Ecology, Technology
Second Life photo links
I have compiled an organized collection of my “photos” from exploring and researching Second Life over the past 2 years, including a comprehensive list of ecological and sustainability initiatives within Second Life: Check this link: http://michaelgaio.com/photos/secondlife
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Design, Ecology, Flash, Projects, Technology
EARTHscope: Mapping the World Wide Web of Life
02.27.07 | Permalink | 2 CommentsSee a Flash-based map that presents comprehensive information on the importance of biodiversity to human health. This was a joint project with Harvard University’s Center for Health and the Global Environment, the Buckminster Fuller Institute, Free Range Graphics, and myself as the Flash interface designer and programmer. See the Biodiversity map: www.earthscope.com/chge And crack the [...]
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