Posted by nothingjustis on June 6, 2012 · Leave a Comment
I highly suggest you commit whatever time it takes to read the 1800 or so pages in the Mars series by Kim Stanley Robinson, an award winning science fiction epic published in three parts, beginning with Red Mars in 1993. Kim Stanley Robinson delivers what has rightly been called “hard science fiction.” It is a … Continue reading →
Category Fiction, Nothing Just Is, Politics, Science, Uncategorized · Tagged with Blue Mars, Green Mars, Hard science fiction, Kim Stanley Robinson, Mars Trilogy, politics, Red Mars, science
Posted by nothingjustis on September 9, 2011 · Leave a Comment
It’s commonly known that a fresh perspective on an old topic can bring new insights. Only recently, though, have I thought about changing the perspective of time as a way to gain these insights. There seems to be an internet phenomenon these days where a piece of music is stretched over an interval much longer … Continue reading →
Category Music, Nature of the Universe?, Nothing Just Is, Science, Uncategorized · Tagged with complexity, Conway's Game of Life, cosmology, emergence, galaxy formation, life, links, manifestations, music, nature of the universe?, perspective, science, stretched music, time, video
Posted by nothingjustis on August 30, 2011 · Leave a Comment
So at the moment, there are 100,000 neurons connected to the robot through Bluetooth. It is living, it’s in an incubator at 37 degrees centigrade. We have to feed it every couple of days with minerals and nutrients. It actually excretes, we have to clear away waste products and whatnot. It is living material, living … Continue reading →
Category Links, Nothing Just Is, Science, Society, The ever-blurring divide · Tagged with biological-technological interfacing, brains, cyborgs, future, future of evolution?, Kevin Warwick, robotics, science, technology, The Ever-Blurring Divide
Posted by nothingjustis on April 1, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Michael Chorost is a technology theorist with an unusual perspective: his body is the future. In 2001 he went completely deaf and had a computer implanted in his head to let him hear again. This transformative experience inspired his first book, Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human, in which he wrote about … Continue reading →
Category Nothing Just Is, Science, Society, The ever-blurring divide · Tagged with books, cochlear implants, Consciousness, cyborgs, evolution of humanity, evolution of technology, future, global mind, internet, linking minds, Michael Chorost, networks, science, SEED Magazine, society, technological-biological interfacing, technology, The Ever-Blurring Divide, World Wide Mind
Posted by nothingjustis on March 16, 2011 · Leave a Comment
The embedded video is inspiring for many reasons, most of which will become apparent on viewing. What is so incredible to me is how a musician (Bobby McFerrin) could go to a conference aimed primarily at scientists and blow every mind in the room with such a simple demonstration. I defy anyone to watch it … Continue reading →
Posted by nothingjustis on January 7, 2011 · Leave a Comment
One of the objectives of The Ever-Blurring Divide is to show examples of a larger trend in which technologies are increasingly being modeled after aspects of nature. At the time of posting, this talk, given by Robert Full, was already several years old and the technologies demonstrated had been replaced by newer generations. Nevertheless, I … Continue reading →
Category Nothing Just Is, Science, TED, The ever-blurring divide · Tagged with biology, Boston Dynamics, future, geckos, Little Dog, merging of technology and biology, nature, RHex, Robert Full, robotics, science, technology, TED, video
Posted by nothingjustis on November 13, 2010 · 3 Comments
I suppose it’s obvious to say, but the thing that makes the universe so interesting is all the unknown. As our set of human knowledge broadens and becomes more intricate, the leading edges of it’s expanding border are a place of excitement. A while back, I bookmarked a youtube clip of physicist Richard Feynman … Continue reading →
Category Nothing Just Is, Science, Society, Uncategorized · Tagged with knowledge, metaphor, mystery, physics, Richard Feynman, science, understanding, video, Youtube
Posted by nothingjustis on September 25, 2010 · Leave a Comment
As we tend to mention on this site quite frequently, modern communications are altering our ways of life in a variety of incredible ways. One thing we always try to focus on when we talk about this stuff is how new all this stuff is. In the grand scheme of things, all this wonderful, technological … Continue reading →
Category Anarchism, Links, Nothing Just Is, Politics, Science, Society · Tagged with Anarchism, Clay Shirky, communities, couch surfing, government, information sharing, internet, links, Linux, open-source, participatory democracy, social organization, technology, Us Now, video, wikipedia, world-wide web
Posted by nothingjustis on September 9, 2010 · Leave a Comment
By John Dave, the other day you were mentioning how you felt a little uncomfortable with Eckhart Tolle’s term, ‘pain-body’ and it reminded me of my own struggles with Tolle. I can’t remember if I mentioned this or not, but in the past, I’ve felt the same unease about said term and even occasionally at … Continue reading →
Category Nothing Just Is, Religion, Science, The Tao · Tagged with atheism, Consciousness, discourse, Eckhart Tolle, julian jaynes, metaphor, Pain-body, philosophy, Religion, science, Tao 1, tao te ching, terminology, The Power of Now, valuing of words