They are ugly. They are definitely not “cutting edge†hardware. They are so very limited in their “usabilityâ€, but none of that really matters. They will still likely replace your current smartphone’s interface over the next five years. They are the “Google Glasses†and you should probably get used to seeing people wearing them. […]
We are now globally in the era that almost nobody has a clue what’s really happening, what we are doing, what we need to do, what is good and what is evil. This is caused by a tidal wave of memetic engineering. And not even very professional memetic engineering — most of this emerging […]
Continuing on my momentary Leyner obsession… Feeling a bit guilty for portraying Mark Leyner’s Sugar Frosted Nut Sack as a beautifully mean frollick through a human wastescape when actually there’s a strong element of Leyner finding “god” — finding patterns — amidst all the ludicrous debris… Â and so I came across this and decided to […]
Upon reading the first three pages of Mark Leyner’s new novel, The Sugar Frosted Nutsack, in which Leyner lays out a sort of creation myth for our times, albeit starting with the declaration There was never nothing followed by a typically leyneresque, dense, electrifyingly poetic description of the universe gaining some sort of context or […]
Mark Dery has long been one of my favorite writers: a critical thinker whose razor sharp attacks on American idiocracy are always leavened by dry humor, colorful but precise language and an amused dissection of human perversity. In a better country, Dery would be widely recognized as one of our premier essayists. Indeed, one reviewer, […]
Yeah Darlin’ go make it happen/Take the world in a love embrace/Fire all of your guns at once/And explode into space/Like a true nature’s child/We were born, born to be wild/We can climb so high/I never want to die
I came across this lovely picture on Facebook recently: Pretty picture no? And one that might epitomize one particular strain of thought common in transhumanism. That of full body cybernetic prosthetics. In fact, a simple Google will find thousands of images of this meme, from Major Kusanagi of Ghost in the Shell: To this nice […]
“God is a word, and the argument ends there†– Bill Callahan I’m up to the tits with this whole God vs. Science thing. It should have been done when Reed Richards stuck the ultimate nullifier in Galactus’s face, but noooo. The transcendental God, who was never more than a beard for the Holy Roman […]
“This was, for me, the meeting that rang true as an energy exchange and creative chaos event, where so many contacts and ideas and plans surfaced or were born, that I consider it on par with what must have happened in Socrates/Plato times, in Gottingen early in the 20th century with the physicists (Bohr etc.), […]
“We talked and tripped. I decided to know God at any price, but when I came down and found some 10 Chaos guys spread around in my living room snoring and shouted, I greeted them as God, but he was with so many! We also discussed the Silicon Brotherhood idea while sitting both in that […]
