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• Wikipedia Risks to civilization, humans and planet Earth Risks to civilization, humans, and planet Earth are existential risks that could threaten humankind as a whole, have adverse consequences for the course of human civilization, or even cause the end of planet Earth.[1] The concept is expressed in various phrases such as…

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• Bookmark How to survive the age of distraction

  The book – the physical paper book – is being circled by a shoal of sharks, with sales down 9 per cent this year alone. It's being chewed by the e-book.…

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  This is my take on the singularity: we're not going to see a hard take-off, or a slow take-off, or any kind of AI-mediated exponential outburst. What we're going to see…

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• Bookmark Perfection Is Not A Useful Concept

  Interview with Nick Bostrom Our long track record of survival–humans have been around for about 100,000 years–gives us some assurance that the natural risks have been rather small. If they have…

  June 20 2011, 9:21am | Comments

• Bookmark How Catholicism made Marshall McLuhan one of the twentieth century’s freest and…

  APPROPRIATELY ENOUGH, a century after his birth in 1911, Marshall McLuhan has found a second life on the Internet. YouTube and other sites are a rich repository of McLuhan interviews, revealing…

  June 20 2011, 9:16am | Comments

• Bookmark On Location with John Carpenter’s THE THING

  From the July 1982 issue of Omni. As with all the other commissioned pieces I wrote for the Arts section of that magazine, this originally ran without a title; I’ve also…

  June 20 2011, 5:20am | Comments

• Bookmark The Things, by Peter Watts

  I am being Blair. I escape out the back as the world comes in through the front. I am being Copper. I am rising from the dead. I am being Childs.…

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• Metafilter New 'Solaris' translation locked in Limbo Solaris, Stanislaw Lem's 1961 masterpiece, has finally been translated directly into English. The current print version, in circulation for over 4 decades, was the result of a double-translation. Firstly from Polish to French, in 1966, by Jean-Michel Jasiensko. This version was then taken…

  June 19 2011, 5:29am | Comments

• Bibliography The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work (Science Masters) by W.Daniel Hillis

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• Bibliography Materiality (Politics, History, and Culture) by Daniel Miller

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  Visitors enter the dark, gargantuan room and take up postures of reverence in front of a massive screen, which towers 40 feet above them. They take off their shoes at the…

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  "If there has been no spiritual change of kind / Within our species since Cro-Magnon Man . . ." The poet Louis MacNeice was voicing a commonplace that was accepted by…

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• Wikipedia Risks to civilization, humans and planet Earth Risks to civilization, humans, and planet Earth are existential risks that could threaten humankind as a whole, have adverse consequences for the course of human civilization, or even cause the end of planet Earth.[1] The concept is expressed in various phrases such as…

  June 26 2011, 11:00am | Comments

• Twitter

  The sun is out, my bicycle calls "Go do London things"

  June 26 2011, 3:21am | Comments

• Bookmark Being human

  Please respect FT.com's ts&cs and copyright policy which allow you to: share links; copy content for personal use; & redistribute limited extracts. Email ftsales.support@ft.com to buy additional rights or use this…

  June 25 2011, 8:55am | Comments

• Bookmark How to survive the age of distraction

  The book – the physical paper book – is being circled by a shoal of sharks, with sales down 9 per cent this year alone. It's being chewed by the e-book.…

  June 25 2011, 5:21am | Comments

• Tumblr Mr. Bottin, you have deserved your drink

  June 25 2011, 5:15am | Comments

• Tumblr Thing (The)

  June 24 2011, 9:29am | Comments

• foursquare checkin @ Raven Row - Takehisa Kosugi exhibition

  June 24 2011, 7:20am | Comments

• Twitter

  Domesticated Unicorn?

  June 24 2011, 6:38am | Comments

• Twitter

  This is an original without a copy

  June 24 2011, 12:36am | Comments

• Bookmark Three arguments against the singularity

  This is my take on the singularity: we're not going to see a hard take-off, or a slow take-off, or any kind of AI-mediated exponential outburst. What we're going to see…

  June 23 2011, 2:48am | Comments

• Tumblr Rock Paper Scissors ForEVER (thanks mrgif)

  June 22 2011, 4:06pm | Comments

• Tumblr Portal Paradox

  June 22 2011, 11:37am | Comments

• Twitter

  Retweet this until all signs of an original are lost

  June 20 2011, 3:09pm | Comments

• Bookmark Perfection Is Not A Useful Concept

  Interview with Nick Bostrom Our long track record of survival–humans have been around for about 100,000 years–gives us some assurance that the natural risks have been rather small. If they have…

  June 20 2011, 9:21am | Comments

• Bookmark How Catholicism made Marshall McLuhan one of the twentieth century’s freest and…

  APPROPRIATELY ENOUGH, a century after his birth in 1911, Marshall McLuhan has found a second life on the Internet. YouTube and other sites are a rich repository of McLuhan interviews, revealing…

  June 20 2011, 9:16am | Comments

• Bookmark On Location with John Carpenter’s THE THING

  From the July 1982 issue of Omni. As with all the other commissioned pieces I wrote for the Arts section of that magazine, this originally ran without a title; I’ve also…

  June 20 2011, 5:20am | Comments

• Bookmark The Things, by Peter Watts

  I am being Blair. I escape out the back as the world comes in through the front. I am being Copper. I am rising from the dead. I am being Childs.…

  June 20 2011, 5:13am | Comments

• YouTube

  June 19 2011, 6:54am | Comments

• Metafilter New 'Solaris' translation locked in Limbo Solaris, Stanislaw Lem's 1961 masterpiece, has finally been translated directly into English. The current print version, in circulation for over 4 decades, was the result of a double-translation. Firstly from Polish to French, in 1966, by Jean-Michel Jasiensko. This version was then taken…

  June 19 2011, 5:29am | Comments

• Bibliography The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work (Science Masters) by W.Daniel Hillis

  June 19 2011, 5:11am | Comments

• Bibliography Materiality (Politics, History, and Culture) by Daniel Miller

  June 19 2011, 5:11am | Comments

• Tumblr Gorilla suits

  June 19 2011, 4:40am | Comments

• Twitter

  Mountains of coffee and 2 pints of bacon, sausage, beans, toast and mushrooms

  June 19 2011, 2:03am | Comments

• Tumblr acecalhoun is worthy of a few jams for this one: “Lastly, and...

  June 17 2011, 12:36pm | Comments

• Tumblr reCAPTCHAed

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  Pocket full of mimoids

  June 17 2011, 3:59am | Comments

• YouTube

  June 16 2011, 4:26pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  June 16 2011, 4:24pm | Comments

• Bookmark Oh, Infinite Stream of Data and Light

  Visitors enter the dark, gargantuan room and take up postures of reverence in front of a massive screen, which towers 40 feet above them. They take off their shoes at the…

  June 16 2011, 4:22pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Origin of Our Species

  "If there has been no spiritual change of kind / Within our species since Cro-Magnon Man . . ." The poet Louis MacNeice was voicing a commonplace that was accepted by…

  June 16 2011, 4:18pm | Comments

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