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For Your Halloween Weekend, Quantum Levitation
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“So it’s actually floating above the surface.” Yep.
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CONTACT Has Been Established
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When Doug Rushkoff started planning the “Contact Unconference” it may have seemed like a “Hail Mary” pass taking place in relative political and social isolation. Contact would bring together a gaggle of edge culture social and technological hackers, makers, and theorists dedicated to many of the ideals and sensibilities that attracted so many of us […]
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Graphene: And Here Comes “Film” Computing
""){ ?> By Valkyrie Ice, posted on October 23, 2011
You might recall I’ve talked about graphene repeatedly, and yes, this is yet another piece about it. In one H+ magazine article I discussed some of the remarkable properties of graphene. In this one I touted a few developments that highlighted exactly how fast graphene developments were being researched. Just recently, I discussed IBM making […]
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How Transparency Will End Tyranny
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I’m sure most of you followed the story about the revolution in Egypt, and the uses which the protestors were putting Twitter, Facebook, etc, and the effort the government made to “shut down the internet”. It should illustrate very effectively how the internet is a tool that is inherently hostile to “information control.” Sure, the […]
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“Extreme Futurist Fest†in Los Angeles: Interview With Creator Rachel Haywire
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Hank Pellissier: Hi Rachel. Tell me your biography? Rachel Haywire: I grew up in the Human 1.0 suburbs of Southern Florida. I was kicked out of my home at 16 and sent to a mental institution. From there I went to live on the streets of San Francisco and became a performance artist. This lead […]
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100 Plus: An Accessible Look At The Longevity Revolution
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Sonia Arrison’s book, 100 Plus: How the Coming Age of Longevity Will Change Everything, From Careers and Relationships to Family and Faith is a look at the oncoming longevity revolution written in a style that is accessible to average readers who may not be part of the transhuman early adopters club. Covering everything from desktop […]
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Is Stiff Academia Killing Mental Evolution?
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One thing I have noticed about the Transhumanist community is that there is a division between the academic crowd and the consciousness expansion crowd. Previous Transhumanist movements have battled on idealistic grounds for the notion of what Transhumanism was really about. Was it the hard scientific outlook with the academic credentials and PowerPoints or was […]
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Jumeirah Wears Her Mirrorshades
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Long ladies in black abayas float by holding phones before them, heavy sunshades. Â Gucci or something. Â Shed sequins glitter in the gutter, full sun bright white on soda cans and burned sim cards. One, now two, enter the broad and cobbled slope near the VIP entrance. Â The rose-tinted bricks play tricks on my eyes, gives […]
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Julian Assange: The Unauthorized Biography — Review
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The naturally narrative Assange’s unauthorized first draft was so adroit, so straight and secure of self, and so infectingly scribed… Julian Assange: The Unauthorized Biography Canongate Books Ltd. September, 2011 I
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Against “Consensus”
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Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions that differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions. Albert Einstein You hear the word Consensus a lot these days. It’s used over and over all over the web as a means to try and end discussion […]
