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  George Dyson: No Time Is There--- The Digital Universe and Why Things Appear To Be Speeding Up - The Long Now

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• Bookmark Synthetic Biology Comes Down to Earth - The Chronicle Review - The…

  Let's make one thing clear: Jim Collins won't grow you a house any time soon. More than a decade ago, Collins, a decorated scientist at Boston University, helped give birth to…

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• Bookmark The Next Digital Paradigm - Forbes

  For over half a century, we’ve been cramming more and more transistors into smaller and smaller spaces and doubling processing power about every 18 months. Now we are nearing the physical…

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• Bookmark Ray Kurzweil Says We’re Going to Live Forever - NYTimes.com

  As a futurist, you are famous for making predictions of when technological innovations will actually occur. Are you willing to predict the year you will die? My plan is to stick…

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  Using DNA would finally divorce the thing that stores information from the things that read it. Time and again, our storage formats become obsolete because we stop making the machines that…

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• Tumblr (Quote) "Using DNA would finally divorce the thing that stores information from the things that read it. Time..."

  “Using DNA would finally divorce the thing that stores information from the things that read it. Time and again, our storage formats become obsolete because we stop making the machines that read them—think about video tapes, cassettes, or floppy disks. That’s a faff—it means…

  January 30 2013, 9:55am | Comments

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  The humanism that the BHA stands for is quite clearly defined in opposition to Christendom. By "Christendom", I mean the idea that the normative and proper state of a society is…

  December 31 2012, 6:56am | Comments

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  Fossils and artefacts pulled from the Grotte du Renne cave in central France present anthropologists with a Pleistocene puzzle. Strewn among the remains of prehistoric mammals are the bones of Neanderthals,…

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• Bookmark Turing Complete User

  Computers are getting invisible. They shrink and hide. They lurk under the skin and dissolve in the cloud. We observe the process like an eclipse of the sun, partly scared, partly…

  December 31 2012, 6:46am | Comments

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  The missile rushing over your head was processed through an Instagram filter just hours previously. As you see it pass out of sight behind the apartment block opposite some young conscript…

  December 14 2012, 3:04am | Comments

• Bookmark The Object is Always Magic: Narrative as Collection

  The lesson here is this: stories come from fragment and from ellipsis. At the same time I got the glass eyeballs I was collecting junk. Mostly what I collected was rusted…

  December 14 2012, 3:00am | Comments

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  "All this I am, and I want to be: at the same time dove, serpent, and pig." - Nietzsche

  November 14 2012, 11:49am | Comments

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  As We May Think: A 1945 Essay on Information Overload, "Curation," and Open

  October 15 2012, 1:37am | Comments

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  New project aims to upload a honey bee's brain into a flying insectobot by

  October 8 2012, 3:38pm | Comments

• Portfolio Sampling, Acclimatisation, and the ‘Die Hard’ Method

  October 7 2012, 3:48pm | Comments

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  The weird deserves recognition as a major literary movement

  September 29 2012, 4:15am | Comments

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  Errormancy: Glitch as Divination – A New Essay by Kim Cascone

  September 29 2012, 4:14am | Comments

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  The ENCODE delusion

  September 25 2012, 3:41am | Comments

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  The evolution of cheating in chess

  September 18 2012, 4:48am | Comments

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  Geologists drive golden spike toward Anthropocene's base

  September 18 2012, 4:23am | Comments

• Wikipedia Ontogeny Ontogeny (also ontogenesis or morphogenesis) is the origin and the development of an organism – for example: from the fertilized egg to mature form. It covers in essence, the study of an organism's lifespan. The word "ontogeny" comes from the Greek ὄντος, ontos,…

  September 17 2012, 6:02am | Comments

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  How Google Builds Its Maps—and What It Means for the Future of Everything

  September 12 2012, 3:23pm | Comments

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  Do Artists Actually Confront Our New Technological Reality?

  September 8 2012, 6:07am | Comments

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  Time for Teletubbies: Radical Utopian Fiction

  September 8 2012, 6:05am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: Time for Teletubbies: Resistance is Futile Time for Teletubbies: Radical Utopian Fiction - how the BBC children's show reveals our posthuman future.

  September 5 2012, 12:58pm | Comments

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  The Latest : 35-year-old Voyager 1 skirts solar system edge with an 8-track and 68K of memory | 89.3 KPCC

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  With an eight-track tape recorder and 100,000 times less memory than an iPod, Voyager 1 is celebrating its 35th birthday at the edge of the solar system. Traipsing through a giant,…

  September 5 2012, 1:05am | Comments

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  George Dyson: No Time Is There--- The Digital Universe and Why Things Appear To Be Speeding Up - The Long Now

  March 28 2013, 10:04am | Comments

• Bookmark Synthetic Biology Comes Down to Earth - The Chronicle Review - The…

  Let's make one thing clear: Jim Collins won't grow you a house any time soon. More than a decade ago, Collins, a decorated scientist at Boston University, helped give birth to…

  March 19 2013, 4:09pm | Comments

• YouTube

  March 13 2013, 1:06am | Comments

• Bookmark The Next Digital Paradigm - Forbes

  For over half a century, we’ve been cramming more and more transistors into smaller and smaller spaces and doubling processing power about every 18 months. Now we are nearing the physical…

  February 23 2013, 3:24am | Comments

• Bookmark The Philosophy of Data - NYTimes.com

  February 23 2013, 3:24am | Comments

• YouTube

  February 12 2013, 2:33pm | Comments

• Bookmark Ray Kurzweil Says We’re Going to Live Forever - NYTimes.com

  As a futurist, you are famous for making predictions of when technological innovations will actually occur. Are you willing to predict the year you will die? My plan is to stick…

  February 11 2013, 2:54am | Comments

• Bookmark Shakespeare’s Sonnets and MLK’s Speech Stored in DNA Speck – Phenomena: Not…

  Using DNA would finally divorce the thing that stores information from the things that read it. Time and again, our storage formats become obsolete because we stop making the machines that…

  February 11 2013, 2:53am | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) "Using DNA would finally divorce the thing that stores information from the things that read it. Time..."

  “Using DNA would finally divorce the thing that stores information from the things that read it. Time and again, our storage formats become obsolete because we stop making the machines that read them—think about video tapes, cassettes, or floppy disks. That’s a faff—it means…

  January 30 2013, 9:55am | Comments

• Bookmark Humanism is an impossible dream

  The humanism that the BHA stands for is quite clearly defined in opposition to Christendom. By "Christendom", I mean the idea that the normative and proper state of a society is…

  December 31 2012, 6:56am | Comments

• Bookmark Neanderthals smart enough to copy humans

  Fossils and artefacts pulled from the Grotte du Renne cave in central France present anthropologists with a Pleistocene puzzle. Strewn among the remains of prehistoric mammals are the bones of Neanderthals,…

  December 31 2012, 6:52am | Comments

• Bookmark Turing Complete User

  Computers are getting invisible. They shrink and hide. They lurk under the skin and dissolve in the cloud. We observe the process like an eclipse of the sun, partly scared, partly…

  December 31 2012, 6:46am | Comments

• Bookmark Devastation in Meatspace

  The missile rushing over your head was processed through an Instagram filter just hours previously. As you see it pass out of sight behind the apartment block opposite some young conscript…

  December 14 2012, 3:04am | Comments

• Bookmark The Object is Always Magic: Narrative as Collection

  The lesson here is this: stories come from fragment and from ellipsis. At the same time I got the glass eyeballs I was collecting junk. Mostly what I collected was rusted…

  December 14 2012, 3:00am | Comments

• Twitter

  "All this I am, and I want to be: at the same time dove, serpent, and pig." - Nietzsche

  November 14 2012, 11:49am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Why OOO?

  November 14 2012, 4:38am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  As We May Think: A 1945 Essay on Information Overload, "Curation," and Open

  October 15 2012, 1:37am | Comments

• YouTube

  October 12 2012, 3:19pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  New project aims to upload a honey bee's brain into a flying insectobot by

  October 8 2012, 3:38pm | Comments

• Portfolio Sampling, Acclimatisation, and the ‘Die Hard’ Method

  October 7 2012, 3:48pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The weird deserves recognition as a major literary movement

  September 29 2012, 4:15am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Errormancy: Glitch as Divination – A New Essay by Kim Cascone

  September 29 2012, 4:14am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The ENCODE delusion

  September 25 2012, 3:41am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The evolution of cheating in chess

  September 18 2012, 4:48am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Geologists drive golden spike toward Anthropocene's base

  September 18 2012, 4:23am | Comments

• Wikipedia Ontogeny Ontogeny (also ontogenesis or morphogenesis) is the origin and the development of an organism – for example: from the fertilized egg to mature form. It covers in essence, the study of an organism's lifespan. The word "ontogeny" comes from the Greek ὄντος, ontos,…

  September 17 2012, 6:02am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  How Google Builds Its Maps—and What It Means for the Future of Everything

  September 12 2012, 3:23pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Do Artists Actually Confront Our New Technological Reality?

  September 8 2012, 6:07am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Time for Teletubbies: Radical Utopian Fiction

  September 8 2012, 6:05am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: Time for Teletubbies: Resistance is Futile Time for Teletubbies: Radical Utopian Fiction - how the BBC children's show reveals our posthuman future.

  September 5 2012, 12:58pm | Comments

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  The Latest : 35-year-old Voyager 1 skirts solar system edge with an 8-track and 68K of memory | 89.3 KPCC

  September 5 2012, 1:05am | Comments

• Bookmark The Latest : 35-year-old Voyager 1 skirts solar system edge with an…

  With an eight-track tape recorder and 100,000 times less memory than an iPod, Voyager 1 is celebrating its 35th birthday at the edge of the solar system. Traipsing through a giant,…

  September 5 2012, 1:05am | Comments

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