Just… wow. This speaks for me on so many levels…. happiness, community, life as adventure, connectedness… This is so prescient and ahead of it’s time and mind blowing. IT’s amazing, and (more…)
Future War, Future Us
The internet…. ads, yes. Monetize, yes…. now the internet is filled with endless clutter because of attempts to drive revenue and monetize…. booking engines, shopping sites, etc. Think of tripadvisor, (more…)
Google’s Search Algorithm is relatively autonomous
Skynet jokes aside, this thing is basically autonomous and will likely become relatively self aware due to data exhaust. The quote at the bottom is hard to comprehend for me. Discuss the implications (more…)
Unbelievable Time Lapse View from Space, Fly Over Aurora Borealis | NASA, ISS
Earth | Time Lapse View from Space, Fly Over | NASA, ISS from Michael König on Vimeo.
3D printing, obsolete workers, & the approaching new economy
3D printing will blow your mind. – from NY Times.  Also, an additional entry from The Economist about “The Shape of Things to Come”. Always with the wry titles, you gents and scholars. It will destroy (more…)
A manifesto for change with specific points of action.
It’s sorta surreal – the tax disaster that will hit most of us shortly. But that’s 2013, and we can get non-partisan chaps up in the congress. Real change will have to be policy, and policy needs to be (more…)
What’s your utopic dystopia? Favorite dystopia films here, please……
http://snarkerati.com/movie-news/the-top-50-dystopian-movies-of-all-time/ What a great list. I realize that no one has made a competent adaptation of Brave New World, unless you include Demolition (more…)
The Collective Consciousness in relation to evolution and spontaneous protesting
Just a missive: I think this is interesting. Spontaneous protesting is akin to a collective consciousness, or mass community brain. It’s very future, and very cool. I wonder if we’re all just passengers (more…)
Occupy Wall Street, and the coming change…..
http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/05/opinion/rushkoff-occupy-wall-street/index.html 99% vs 1% – occupy wall street people want our system to change. I would love to see a rational discussion about how to fix (more…)
A letter to the Georgia Board of Pardons & Paroles prior to the state sponsored murder of Troy Davis regarding the evidence of his innocence
That sort of doubt demands proactive involvement…. we cannot allow another “accident” that further degrades our judicial system. There have been 273 post incarceration DNA exonerations: http://www.innocenceproject.org/know/, so it seems prudent, rational, objective, and forward thinking to have the flexibility enough to alter our flawed trajectories before they become ingrained and mechanistic. We need to have the leadership and objective humilty to recognize the past actions do not need to influence our current course. We have every opportunity to take control, recognize mistakes, and revisit Troy Davis’ case with strength and respect for the judicial system as it can be, versus what it may become.