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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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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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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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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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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Cognition, Collective Intelligence, Computation, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, Sociology, Spirit, Technology, Time
Humans v2.0
This video is BBC’s special broadcast as part of the “Horizon” series. It features an engaging narrative that introduces various ideas about the singularity and human enhancement.
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Art, Collective Intelligence, Internet, Language, Media, Music, Technology
Meta-Language Technique : OSC
With new technology comes new possibilities to execute technique. If we look to the trend of advents in internet protocols, we see how particular innovations in the information technology domain resulted in tremendous transformative effects in social, economic, and political arenas. The TCP/IP protocol allowed for the identification of independent computers, and for the transfer [...]
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