See on Scoop.it - Knowmads, Infocology of the futureOn Tuesday, Kurzweil moderated a live Google hangout tied to a release of the upcoming Will Smith film, “After Earth,” presumably tying the film’s futuristic concept to actual futurists.Google has always been an artificial…
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April 26, 2013
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February 19, 2013
December 8, 2012
That’s not Photoshop. The Dutch artist Berndnaut Smilde has developed a way to create a small, perfect white cloud in the middle of a room. It requires meticulous planning: the temperature, humidity and lighting all have to be just so. Once everything is ready, Smilde summons the cloud out of the air using a fog machine. It lasts only moments, but the effect is dramatic and strangely moving. It evokes both the surrealism of Magritte and the classical beauty of the old masters while reminding us of the ephemerality of art and nature. (via Indoor Clouds | Best Inventions of the Year 2012 | TIME.com)
December 8, 2012
"I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I’m afraid of."
— Joss Whedon (via nathanielstuart)
November 17, 2011
September 8, 2011
Lapidarium notes: Kevin Kelly on Technology, or the Evolution of Evolution “When we look...
Kevin Kelly on Technology, or the Evolution of Evolution
“When we look at technology we see pipes and blinking lights. But in the cosmic view, technology is the acceleration of evolution.
In the abstract, natural evolution is an exploration of a possibility space. It is a way for…
August 11, 2011
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That’s not Photoshop. The Dutch artist Berndnaut Smilde has developed a way to create a small, perfect white cloud in the middle of a room. It...
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“I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I’m afraid of.”
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“While I could not be more delighted that we live in a verbal world, I do understand the pleasure in occasionally laying language aside and letting...”
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“As I write this sentence at 8:33pm, Pacific time, on August 18th 2007, I am wearing white socks. As a rationalist, are you licensed to believe the...”
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wondered what it would sound like if I sang Nirvana’s “Lithium” with a sort of Billy Holiday tone of voice… always a song that the voices in my head...
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He couldn’t stand another night with that smug hookah.
(Photo: Hertha Hernaus; Dwell, June 2007)
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“Beautiful people do not just happen.”— Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
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Philip K Dick letter concerning Blade Runner
