Tis the plight of the MultiCultural to be constantly greeted with the single story.
58 minutes ago
Shaman healers - Alim El Bey
Some may take this with a grain of salt, others with a spoonfull of sugar... certainly food for thought.
We Live In Public - Ondi Timonor's new movie
On the 40th anniversary of the Internet, WE LIVE IN PUBLIC tells the story of the effect the web is having on our society, as seen through the eyes of “the greatest Internet pioneer you’ve never heard of,” visionary Josh Harris. Award-winning director, Ondi Timoner (DIG!), documented his tumultuous life for more than a decade, to create a riveting, cautionary tale of what to expect as the virtual world inevitably takes control of our lives.
Josh Harris, often called the “Warhol of the Web,” founded Pseudo.com, the first Internet television network during the infamous dot-com boom of the 1990s. He also created his vision of the future: an underground bunker in NYC where 100 people lived together on camera for 30 days over the turn of the millennium.
Scary!
Josh Harris, often called the “Warhol of the Web,” founded Pseudo.com, the first Internet television network during the infamous dot-com boom of the 1990s. He also created his vision of the future: an underground bunker in NYC where 100 people lived together on camera for 30 days over the turn of the millennium.
Scary!
LIFE Inc.- The movie
In Life Inc., award-winning writer, documentary filmmaker, and scholar Douglas Rushkoff traces how corporations went from a convenient legal fiction to the dominant fact of contemporary life. Indeed as Rushkoff shows, most Americans have so willingly adopted the values of corporations that they’re no longer even aware of it.
Life Inc. The Movie from Douglas Rushkoff on Vimeo.
5 Scientific theories that will make your head explode
Michael Swaim over at Cracked.comThere are generally two types of science: first, there’s the type that makes computers work, allows us to ride around in metal boxes propelled by continuous explosion, and makes it so that milk doesn’t taste all gross. Then there’s the fringe science, the stuff that shoots up your nose like mathematical horseradish and dances a jig on your brain…
Quantum Entanglement, Evolution, the Copenhagen Interpretation, parallel universe and its size ... Aaaaagh!....
When man and machine merge
David Kushner writes in rolling StoneIssue 1072 — February 19, 2009
Meet Ray Kurzweil, prophet of the techno rapture. By 2045, he says, computers will surpass us in intelligence, the universe itself will become conscious, and humans will live forever...
Over the past four decades, Ray Kurzweil has established himself as one of the world's most prolific and influential inventors. His specialty is pattern recognition — teaching machines to classify data and learn. He created the first program to enable computers to read text — the basis of modern scanning — as well as the first program to translate text into speech...
The crowd erupts in applause — not just for the invention but for Kurzweil's artful segue to the topic about which they all want to hear. The idea of superhuman intelligence — intelligence that comes when humans merge with machines — is not new. It dates back to the 1950s, when mathematician John von Neumann observed that the ever-faster pace of technology would reach "some essential singularity in the history of the race beyond which human affairs, as we know them, could not continue." By 1993, sci-fi novelist Vernor Vinge was predicting that "within 30 years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. " But the Singularity still seemed like something out of the Tom Swift books Kurzweil read as a child. "It wasn't very quantified," he says. "It was more impressionistic. It needed to be fleshed out, so that's what I sought to do."...Read in full...
Yah!... I know ... you feel your brain folding in on itself.
Read Bill Joy's: Why the future doesnt need us...
a new documentary about the post-human future. Contemplating a real "rise of the machines"...
The 10 most successful Potheads on the planet
An unemployed porno addict, sitting in his parents’ basement, playing video games, eating Lucky Charms out of the box with one hand while he lazily scratches his balls with the other. A dread-lock having, patchouli oil smelling, tie-die wearing, Phish listening, hula-hoop twirling space cadet. A burger flipping, acne having, socially inept, friendless loser… These are the common stereotypes associated with the term ‘pothead’... Where these stereotypes originated remains a mystery to us. In reality, they couldn’t be further from the truth.Coedmagazine.com takes a look at the 10 most successful potheads on the planet... read full ...
Pain... a call for attention
Charles Eisenstein writes part 3 of The Miracle of self creation over at reality sandwich:Why does it seem that we modern adult human beings repeatedly do things that cause ourselves pain? Because we are such strangers to ourselves that we aren't aware of what hurts. Keep reading...
read parts 1 and 2 first.
The Union - The business behind getting high
British Columbia's illegal marijuana trade industry has evolved into a business giant, dubbed by some involved as 'The Union', Commanding upwards of $7 billion Canadian annually. With up to 85% of 'BC Bud' being exported to the United States, the trade has become an international issue. Follow filmmaker Adam Scorgie as he demystifies the underground market and brings to light how an industry can function while remaining illegal. Through growers, police officers, criminologists, economists, doctors, politicians and pop culture icons, Scorgie examines the cause and effect nature of the business - an industry that may be profiting more by being illegal. Written by Brett Harvey
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
