tobedetermined!

Sketches of zero-g

2011-11-06T07:06:20Z

Its been a crazy summer organizing 3 parabolic campaigns out of Ellington Field (go Flight Opportunities). But it was fun for all...

Finance got networked

2011-09-01T04:46:33Z

Jaron Lanier on network effects.

more at the edge.

Nebula lives on

2011-08-08T03:40:31Z

Chris C Kemp takes Nebula to the next level.

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How algorithms shape our world

2011-07-31T03:26:49Z

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Jeremy Rifkin's perspective on human reality from the outside

2011-06-13T02:34:36Z

Bruce Sterling at ARE2011

2011-05-30T18:32:52Z

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LongNow conversation with Pete Worden

2011-05-22T06:09:51Z

From October 16, 2010. DARPA just released their RFI for the 100 Year Starship Study.

Neurowear

2011-05-15T04:25:31Z

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The medium of the self is the message

2011-05-14T18:02:17Z

Good video. Its the same folks that did this experiment back in 2007. Part I

Part II (via)

Photos

2011-05-11T01:02:11Z

Playing around with some embeddable imagery. Photosynth has a pretty neat iPhone app which makes it very simple to create 360 panoramas.
Gigapan is also nice. Unfortunately they don't have an embed feature.

A loss

2011-03-16T07:55:56Z

NASA CTO for IT Chris C. Kemp today announced he's leaving the Agency. Sad story. Given he was the one who convinced me to come over to the Bay Area from Amsterdam, The Netherlands 3 years ago. Meanwhile, the public gets pictures like this:

US space

2011-02-15T16:25:30Z

And a reasonable sounding video, from a Tea Party member no less:

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DinnerTV: Richard Dawkins and Neil deGrasse Tyson

2010-11-11T16:58:05Z

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Those views

2010-11-08T22:47:16Z

(via NASAWatch)

More intruiging images by the same photographer

How has the Internet changed the way you think?

2010-10-11T23:37:24Z

Ran into some excellent quotes in the responses to the yearly Edge.org question:

And he had picked up on McLuhan's idea that by inventing electric technology we had externalized our central nervous systems — that is, our minds — and that we now had to presume that "There's only one mind, the one we all share." John Brockman

The Internet is virtualizing the universe, which changes the way I act and think. "Virtualization" (a basic historical transition, like "industrialization") means that I spend more & more of my time acting-within and thinking about the mirror-reflection of some external system or institution in the (smooth, pond-like) surface of the Internet. But the continuum of the Cybersphere will emerge from today's bumpy cob-Web when Virtualization reaches the point at which the Internet develops its own emergent properties and systems: when we stop looking at the pixels (the many separate sites and services that make up the Web) and look at the picture. (It's the picture, not the pixels! Eventually top-down thinking will replace bottom-up engineering in the software world—which will entail roughly a 99.9% turnover in the current population of technologists.) David Gelernter

I began to develop a theme that has informed my endeavors ever since: New technologies beget new perceptions. Reality is a man-made process. Our images of our world and of ourselves are, in part, models resulting from our perceptions of the technologies we generate. John Brockman

Ned Hall once pointed out to me that the most critical inventions are not those that resemble inventions but those that appear innate and natural. Once you become aware of this kind of invention, it is as though you had always known about it. ("The medium is the message." Of course, I always knew that). John Brockman

The Internet is the infinite oscillation of our collective conscious interacting with itself. John Brockman

Maybe click-dreaming is a way for all of us to have the same dream, independent of what we click on. Kevin Kelly