February 2010
January 2010
“Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.”
– Gehm’s Corollary to Clarke’s Third Law
True Transhumanism :: Max More :: Global Spiral
“Man is now hard-at-work naturally selecting for the traits that make software...”
– Why Cyberconsciousness Won’t Takes Aeons to Evolve
“A gigantic cultural revolution is underway. Free expression and the joy of...”
– Toni Negri
NomadicGeek:
“Associating the Enlightenment with abstract reasoning runs smack up against what...”
– David Brin
Defending the Enlightenment
“A knowmad is what I term a nomadic knowledge worker –that is, a creative,...”
– Education Futures - Knowmads in Society 3.0
“In the coming decades, lovers of the written word may find themselves...”
– Could Written Language Be Rendered Obsolete, and What Should We Demand In Return? | Britannica Blog
“I say that one must be a seer, make oneself a seer. The poet makes himself a see...”
– Arthur Rimbaud in a letter to Paul Demeny (1871; seventeen years old) (via predatorywaspobserver)
“Evolution keeps bumping upward to new levels of creativity and surprise. We’re...”
– The Metacurrency Project | infrastructure for the open source economy and true community wealth (via ferananda)
“Now that physics is proving the intelligence of the universe, what are we to do...”
– Jeanette Winterson, Gut Symmetries (via: homeofthevain, sherry & vacantlots) (via crashinglybeautiful)
“It is time to question whether a bipedal, breathing body with binocular vision...”
– OBSOLETE BODY
“The networked information economy improves the practical capacities of...”
– Yochai Benkler, one of the leading modern theorists of open collaboration, in his book The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom:
Booki
“Instead of nostalgia and allegory, network culture delivers remix, shuffling...”
– Eurozine - The meaning of network culture - Kazys Varnelis
“To attain the multiple, one must have a method that effectively constructs it;...”
– A Thousand Plateaus - Deleuze & Guattari (via spaceweaver)
“..what is most amazing about networks is that they completely transform the way...”
– JAMES FOWLER:
Seed Salon: Albert-Laszlo Barabasi + James Fowler § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM
“Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything”
– Henri Poincare
“In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves...”
– Eric Hoffer (via somethingchanged) (via infoneernet) (via aquabooks) (via booklover) (via libraryland)
“We are archivists, all of us.
But must everything be permanent?
Must we insist...”
– SAMPLE REALITY · The Archive or the Trace: Cultural Permanence and the Fugitive Text
“We said that the desire to fly produced the aeroplane. But people don’t get into...”
– “Motive for Metaphor” by Northrop Frye [essay] (via snesselfous)
(via libraryland)
“In an experience, flow is from something to something. As one part leads into...”
– Art as Experience, John Dewey (via lethebashar)
“ “Progress is the realization of utopias.” ”
– Oscar Wilde via Utopia - Expressions Of Utopianism (via amiquote)
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“I have meant what I have done. Or – I have often meant what I have done. Or – I...”
– Jasper Johns
“Every kind of ignorance in the world all results from not realizing that our...”
– Robert Anton Wilson (via myserendipities)
“ “The global brain is the quasi-neural energy - and information - processing...”
– Ervin László via Collective Intelligence: The Need for Synthesis by Kingsley Dennis (via amiquote)
“Collaboration must not be confused with consensus or teamwork. Collaboration...”
– The Next Generation Collaborative Enterprise (via businessdna) (via smarterplanet)
“Of course we are going to use social media, but the real challenge is doing so...”
– Zen and the Art of Twitter: 4 Tips for Productive Tweeting
“My experience is that value really comes from community. Of course facilitators,...”
– Critical Thinking In Practice | The Smart Work Company
Digital Delirium
“Communication transmits a universe made up of disconnected images, remarks, statements and commentarities whose accepted principle is incoherence. Day after day communication undoes all relations and all principles, in an untenable juxtaposition that dissolves every relation between the elements it sweeps along in its flow.” - Alain Badiou, Infinite Thought
via montycantsin:
“Public interest is motivated by zeitgeist, but it also creates it. The ideas...”
– MATTER Interview: Neri Oxman
“Research and education have become like motherhood and apple pie: harmless,...”
– Nick Bostrom quoted in:
The dangers of a high-information diet - science-in-society - 15 January 2010 - New Scientist
“Demonstrations of impossibility, whether in relativity, quantum mechanics, or...”
–
Order Out of Chaos - Ilya Prigogine and Isabelle Stengers (1984)
“The Internet’s primary effect on how we think will only reveal itself when...”
– CLAY SHIRKY Social & Technology Network Topology Researcher; Adjunct Professor, NYU Graduate School of Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP); Author, Here Comes Everybody
THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2009— Page 1
“Techno-Romanticism tends towards a focus on individual passions and inner...”
– :: SCAN | journal of media arts culture ::
“This noology is about knowledge that can transform things and states of the...”
– :: SCAN | journal of media arts culture ::
“What have I learned? That friendship, not money, is real security. That most...”
– I live without cash – and I manage just fine | Mark Boyle | Environment | guardian.co.uk
“Of course, more or less everyone has come to depend on the Internet in this way....”
– Hyper-self reflectivity in action?
THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2010 — Page 4 (via endlessforms)
“The very technology that makes our collective integration possible also...”
– Skinner Box? There’s an App for That - O’Reilly Radar
“With the pure, lean precision of Reason we have built our houses of Kantianism,...”
– Problems of Transhumanism: The Unsustainable Autonomy of Reason
