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Allen Ginsberg | ACCELER8OR
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Brion Gysin’s Dream Machine: Build Your Own Portal to Inner Visions. Photo by Charles Gatewood. The Dream Machine is a device for altering the brainwave frequency of the user and putting it into an alpha state, at which point it begins generating waking, sober hallucinations and internal movies, on demand. It quickly became a source of fascination for the Beats. And programs that generate the same flicker effect . You can even get a free Dream Machine iPhone app. Your mileage may vary.). Of course, you c...
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hyperconnectivity | The Human Network
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Reports from the connected present. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. October 19, 2011. I: A Brief Tour of the Future. Should we wait there – for goodness knows how long – or simply go on without them? As I debated our choices – neither particularly palatable – one of my friends took a mobile out of his pocket, dialed our missing friends, and told them to meet us at an Oxford Street pub. Crisis resolved. We rarely recall how different things were before everyone carried a mobile. Th...
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sharing | The Human Network
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Reports from the connected present. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. October 19, 2011. I: A Brief Tour of the Future. Should we wait there – for goodness knows how long – or simply go on without them? As I debated our choices – neither particularly palatable – one of my friends took a mobile out of his pocket, dialed our missing friends, and told them to meet us at an Oxford Street pub. Crisis resolved. We rarely recall how different things were before everyone carried a mobile. Th...
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nanoexperts | The Human Network
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Reports from the connected present. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. October 19, 2011. I: A Brief Tour of the Future. Should we wait there – for goodness knows how long – or simply go on without them? As I debated our choices – neither particularly palatable – one of my friends took a mobile out of his pocket, dialed our missing friends, and told them to meet us at an Oxford Street pub. Crisis resolved. We rarely recall how different things were before everyone carried a mobile. Th...
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salience | The Human Network
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Reports from the connected present. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. October 19, 2011. I: A Brief Tour of the Future. Should we wait there – for goodness knows how long – or simply go on without them? As I debated our choices – neither particularly palatable – one of my friends took a mobile out of his pocket, dialed our missing friends, and told them to meet us at an Oxford Street pub. Crisis resolved. We rarely recall how different things were before everyone carried a mobile. Th...
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artificial intelligence | ACCELER8OR
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Not Sci Fi. Sci NOW! As the walrus said to the Carpenter, the time has come to talk of many things. To begin, I am not a liberal, a conservative, a libertarian, a communist, a socialist, or any other political leaning. If I must be labeled, I would say I am a Humanitarian first, and a Transhumanist second. As such I would have to say I am a Transhumanist because I am a Humanitarian. So, what precisely does that have to so with the future? However, it also means I spend a lot of time researching exactly w...
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mpesce | Hyperbusiness
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Connecting to the New Economy. Fast, Frictionless and On Fire. 8230;Decomposing Businesses Into Services…. What kinds of services should hyperbusinesses offer through interfaces? Take, for example, the hotel room where I type these words. I’m in a room at the Mandarin Oriental Bangkok. What services are the hotel providing to me in return for my daily rate? Here’s a list, which is not meant to be utterly exhaustive, but gives an idea of what a business looks like when decomposed into services:. Swimming ...
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Flexible Futures | The Human Network
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Reports from the connected present. Skip to primary content. October 19, 2011. I: A Brief Tour of the Future. Should we wait there – for goodness knows how long – or simply go on without them? As I debated our choices – neither particularly palatable – one of my friends took a mobile out of his pocket, dialed our missing friends, and told them to meet us at an Oxford Street pub. Crisis resolved. While I was mired in an old, discrete and disconnected conception of human relationships. We rarely recall how...
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