The Beginning of Infinity
THE BEGINNING OF INFINITY from jason silva on Vimeo. Consider. Consider the power of Mind to reshape Matter. Consider the notion that evolution has escape the biological to infect the […]
Michael Burnam-Fink
Technologies of Unrest
Anybody who’s paying attention will note that these are unsettled times, from the Arab spring, to youth demonstrations in Spain, Israel, and now Occupy Wallstreet. Via Kevin Kelly who cites […]
Why Cities Keep Growing, Corporations Die, and Life Gets Faster
There’s an old adage that if you can describe a problem mathematically, it’s 80% solved, and if you can’t describe it mathematically, you’re never going to get it right. The […]
The Lanier Effect
You’re probably familiar with Jaron Lanier. VR pioneer, musician, author of You Are Not a Gadget and far too many articles to mention. He’s also the inspiration for the Prevail […]
Junot Diaz Dispatches from the Apocalypse
Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Junot Diaz has an incredibly powerful piece on the Earthquake in Haiti, and what this apocalypse has revealed about the world. The Haitian earthquake was no […]
Questioning Technology
Kevin Kelly over at The Technium got an interesting request from a reader: what questions about technology would you ask a Chinese peasant? The 15 questions. Would your grandparents be […]
We’re all inattentive superheroes.
I spend a fair amount of time thinking about how we can make humans better, and what the consequences of making people better might be, so reading about how amazing […]
Cracking the Facebook Code
Recommendation agents pay a minor, but increasingly important role in our lives. Whether it’s Amazon’s book recommendations, or Netflix, Pandora Radio, or Google Search, we rely on algorithms and computers […]
Brains, Minds, and Machines @ MIT May 3-5
The granddaddies of artificial intelligence are holding a conference on reinvigorating the field, bringing together the best thinkers in computer science, cognitive science, neuroscience, and the social sciences for three […]
Silicon Valley: Hackers, hucksters, and the hopeful
Two articles in the business news caught my eye recently, providing very different takes on entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley. From Business Insider, Google’s Larry Page Does Exactly the Right Thing: […]