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The Singularity & Other “Dimensional Failures of Topological Imagination"

Parag and Ayesha Khanna — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 09:19:11 -0400

A Conversation with William Irwin Thompson by Michael Garfield William Irwin Thompson is a poet, philosopher, cultural historian, former MIT professor, and founder of the Lindisfarne Association – a transdisciplinary think-tank that has significantly shaped our understanding of the emerging ...

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Hybrid Education: The Evidence Grows

Parag and Ayesha Khanna — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 02:10:50 -0400

By Peadar Coyle It is said that education is something people have strong opinions about. A growing literature has emerged around randomized evaluations of interventions, most notably Esther Duflo’s work on randomized evaluations of anti-poverty programs in developing countries. This is the most ...

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Extended senses & invisible fences

Parag and Ayesha Khanna — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 05:20:03 -0400

By Chris Arkenberg “The intelligence of the city is on the streets.“ – Manu Fernandez Amidst the swirling maelstrom of technological progress so often heralded as the imminent salvation to all our ills, it can be necessary to remind ourselves that humanity sits at the center, not technology ...

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Hollywood, Inception, and the Cinematic Dream State

Parag and Ayesha Khanna — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:18:18 -0400

Interview with Jason Silva by Frank Rose One afternoon recently I spent a couple of hours with Jason Silva, the longtime Current TV host who’s been making much-talked-about micro-videos about the co-evolution of humans and technology—the latest of which will be featured at TEDGlobal later this ...

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What's your Technology Quotient (TQ)?

Parag and Ayesha Khanna — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 06:42:27 -0400

A new era requires a new vocabulary. Will we still talk about the “mobile” phone when all phones are mobile, or when they are implanted within us? Does “evolution” really capture our deepening entanglement with technology today, or should we instead speak of human-technology coevolution? More ...

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Inviting Machines Into Our Bodies

Parag and Ayesha Khanna — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 12:36:36 -0400

By Chris Arkenberg In what amounts to a fairly shocking reminder of how quickly our technologies are advancing and how deeply our lives are being woven with networked computation, security researchers have recently reported successes in remotely compromising and controlling two different ...

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Singularly Complex. The Catch with Hybrid Finance

Parag and Ayesha Khanna — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 04:10:04 -0400

BY ABHIJNAN REJ A Jurassic Park in the Canary Wharf? On the 6th of May, 2010, at around 2:45 pm, the Dow fell unusually rapidly losing over 9% of its total value in a couple of minutes without any perceptible external information input. After a circuit-breaker in the Chicago Mercantile ...

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Generative Cities: The Future of Urban Intelligence

Parag and Ayesha Khanna — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 13:10:54 -0400

Reprinted from PSFK's "Need to Know" magazine In the future, cities will be judged by their generativity. Over seventy percent of the world’s population, and almost all of the globe’s skilled talent, will live in cities by the year 2050. The globally mobile entrepreneur will decide where to ...

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Neurotechnology, Social Control and Revolution

Parag and Ayesha Khanna — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 08:00:29 -0400

By Ahmed El Hady In our neuro-centric world-view, a person is equated to his brain. The neuro-discourse has penetrated all aspects of our lives from law to politics to literature to medicine to physics. As part of this neuro-revolution, huge military funding is supporting neuro-scientific ...

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Future of Money: Classifying Virtual Currency Systems

Parag and Ayesha Khanna — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 04:19:37 -0400

By Aaron Smith Since the beginning of the digital age, pundits have hailed virtual currencies as the future of our civilization’s money. While it may be difficult to imagine a cash-less society, it’s important to understand that money is merely an agreement to use something as a medium of ...

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