The September Zeitgeist, 2009
Internet as the Universe for Synthetic Life started to get it’s own native infrastructure. Read more.
clairvoyance to your business
Hackery at the ends
The Meme Machine
Because information trumps mass, all commerce....
…migrates to the network economy.
MIT Media Lab director Nicholas Negroponte guesstimates that the online economy will have reached $1 trillion by 2000. Most tenured economists think that figure…
Making Organic Structure Visible.
Science is forever trying to model nature. By simplifying its complexity, or extracting its structures into new modes, science can begin to understand how living things work. One clever way to study…
And what could be more industrial-age....
…than automobiles? Yet, chips and networks can take the industrial age out of cars, too. Most of the energy a car consumes is used to move the car itself, not the passenger. So if the car’s body…
One day, we knew, biotech would become so easy and so cheap that two guys in a garage could hack life in the way kids hack code. That day is now here. Exhibit A is this biohacking lab in…Name and Profile
In war under heavy pressure soldiers are asked for “Name and rank” to check their physical integrity. If one fails the identity test he or she will be taken down immediatelly.
If you don’t know who you are you can be anything or you can be taken over by anyone.
Netizens don’t have rank but sooner or later they will have to have a public profile.
Hollywood and Internet
The century of America literally killed all that part of the human spirit which is not tied to fear or to pragmatism.
This second century of America will literally kill all human life which won’t be tied to fear or to pragmatism.
Bit by bit, the logic of the network....
…will overtake every atom we deal with.
The logic of the network will spread from its base in silicon chips, to infiltrate steel, plywood, chemical dyes, and potato chips. All manufacturing,…
Death
If we will act like God we will desire Death too.
The two last standing memes will challenge us beyond imagination.
Remember when you were kid and musing about your own funeral? That will happen to be true very often in digital.
Bye-bye E=m*c2
And F=m*a
Material thus biologic like us and the forrest are overtaken by pure information.
Synthetic life, augmented reality, quantified self, bionic interfaces, spimes, drones, lifestream, cloud computing, facebook.
E=m*c2 described a world created, materialised by light. Now all our energies are spent on creating an infoverse.
Material is building the informational, the digital with a human factor.
Humanity like once God is creating a new Universe.
To let life go on.
Tell me and I’ll forget. Show me and I may not remember. Involve me and I’ll understand.
Native American proverb (via lisapark) (via quote-book) (via hiten)
The Next Web
