How to Operate Your Brain
Nice vintage video by Timothy Leary, via Open Culture. [iframe] [/iframe]
Becoming a Cyborg should be taken gently: Of Modern Bio-Paleo-Machines » Cyborgology
“We, the biological part of the machine, are providing the tools for its uplift, we embed cameras everywhere so it can see, we implant sensors all over the planet so it may feel, but above all we nudge and we push towards a greater connectivity, all this unaware.” And also:… Continue reading
Content vs. service in media & education — BuzzMachine
Jeff Jarvis: “I ask us — in journalism and in education (and in journalism education) — to aspire to being services. That requires us to start by thinking of the ends.” This is so right. Aspire being services, in education as in journalism, as both activities have so much in… Continue reading
Apps on top of the real world
This seems to be pretty cool, but as you’ll see in the ‘read more’ section, it’s much more than just ‘cool’: And here is how it works: It’s build by Stockholm-based 13thlab.com and it’s an app available on iOS. Using advanced computer vision, Minecraft Reality maps and tracks the world… Continue reading
Microsoft has its own Project Glass
“Microsoft has it’s own Project Glass cooking in the R&D labs. It’s an augmented reality glasses/heads-up display, that should supply you with various bits of trivia while you are watching a live event, e.g. baseball game. ” The information is based on a patent application, so don’t expect a Microsoft… Continue reading
ISTAS 2013 : 2013 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society
What happens when not only the objects around us become ‘smart’ but also we ourselves? When connectivity, cameras, being always on, record and recording are the default state? This seems to be a fascinating conference about what is now cutting edge but rapidly becomes the new normal. veillance.me
WordPress Brings Bitcoin to the Blogging Masses | Webmonkey
“Upgrading your WordPress.com blog no longer requires a credit card or PayPal account. Starting today you can raid your virtual piggy bank to pay for WordPress upgrades with the digital currency Bitcoin.” This is interesting. How ‘virtual’ is bitcoin anyway? Maybe Linden Lab – the company behind Second Life –… Continue reading
Let Google hack your mind!
Alternate Reality Games (ARG)! conspiracies! Augmented Reality! Mind hacking! Soon all this on your Android (now in closed beta) – and I guess less soon also on iOS. Meet Ingress, Google’s ARG. It reminds me of Shadow Cities, but then again I could not yet try out Ingress. It seems… Continue reading
Singularity Hub acquired by Singularity University
I recently posted about a video-interview with Ray Kurzweil I found on Singularity Hub. I also mentioned the membership-model this site uses. Now the site announced Singularity University acquired it. Keith Kleiner founded the site five years ago. At first I thought it was part of the Singularity University, but… Continue reading
A social network for things | Beyond The Beyond
“Thingiverse is also introducing a new “Follow†button that will connect you to the things, digital designs, designers, users, tags, categories: all the stuff you care about most. By following a Thing, you’ll get a notification when someone comments on it, makes a copy of it, or remixes it. Some… Continue reading