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…)
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…)
So… are jobs obsolete?
Simply brilliant and thoughtful article. There’s PLENTY of jobs for high skilled people. Robots and tech is killing union jobs for unskilled labor, the internet has made thousands of types (more…)
Privacy Wednesday! Al-Qaida are playing video games to mask their planning, & a Minority Report PreCog Style Santa Cruz pre-crime caper!
For a friend… I need to develop my stance on privacy a little more. Â I think that my stance is that it is vital to address what it is, it’s nature, and how it is part of something much bigger and more (more…)
Dauphin 007 – a surreal journey that actually makes sense in about 3 minutes.
Dauphin 007 from Jonathan Monaghan on Vimeo. Thanks Scott Beale
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the paradox of choice = mind blowing surprising science of motivation where good ideas come from BEWARE – online filter bubbles coolest statistics you’ve ever seen robot (more…)
Something thoughtful for Post 400 – The Filter Bubble
Filter ethics. This is the most important thing regarding Facebook & other online communities that very few people are talking about. Â I note here (June 2010) that hidden streams destroy any legitimacy (more…)
Data is Now. Aggregate data overload, and unlocking it for the future.
You can find so much here at DATAVIS. This, I believe is the most significant and accessible way for people to understand what is happening here… it’s not just visualizing, but mapping data with controls (more…)
Why gory “Enjoy the Plants” pinpoints the problems with Google’s rapidly failing algorithm
The point is, if you search a totally benign term: “Enjoy the Plants”, with or without quotes, and click on the first link – —— you will find something wholly unrelated to plants. *THIS (more…)