To begin with, the failure of the established order of industrial society, and of the political classes who manage it, is becoming hard to ignore. Consider the way that the world’s leaders have reacted to the ongoing implosion of the global economy, or nearly any other recent crisis you care to name: in each case, […]
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there’s your future right there, an angry libertarian with a shotgun and a dead drone.
prompted by interdome
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— Ghost Ship Rothstein (@Interdome) January 29, 2015
Tropical Cyclones Diamondra and Eunice by EUMETSAT on Flickr.
“Tropical Cyclones Diamondra and Eunice”
– like watching two galaxies collide
weather, dynamic systems, the mysteries of form repeating across scales of time and space.
good morning
Read moreIt is, I am reliably informed, 2015 now. This year so far has been off to a slow start for me, mostly due to reasons. But there is a great weight to my plans. Moving them forwards, accelerating the mass of what-is-to-come towards escape velocity, will take some time still, but things are, be assured, […]
Read more "Accelerating along the road ahead, from 2015 to 2020, with one eye always on 2200. OK. Let’s go!"I liked this short film so much I wrote a 3000 word essay about it and the Great Extropian Adventure. Co-starring cyborg dolphins and manatees tweeting from asteroid ecologies – Uplifting Civilisation into the 22nd Century…and Beyond!:
Read more "Uplifting Civilisation and Introducing the Great Extropian Adventure"“And that is the tone I’d like to have set for the immediate future. Adjust our scope to always have 2200 in our vision and it’s easy to see what we have to do between now and 2020. When you’re already extending your thinking to giving AIs the vote, gay marriage takes less than a nanosecond to compute. When your idea of the world to come has celebrity cyborg animals in space being verified on Twitter, having compassion for those unlucky humans fleeing states collapsing from internal wars or externally generated heavy weather events (or both) is a trivial act.”
We were promised jetpacks to go to the store and instead we’ll have quadcopters bringing us our groceries. — Benedict Evans (@BenedictEvans) January 24, 2015 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
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sorry about the autocrossposting, that was a wordpress upgrade gone bad. here’s a manual crossposting, first we take Mars, then we take the GALAXY
Read moreYou know, when diseases killed 50% of children before their 5th birthday? The human condition pre-1900? That. RT @mpesce: You know, when diseases killed 50% of… was originally published on Cosmic Anthropology 101
Read more "RT @mpesce: You know, when diseases killed 50% of…"“I stopped sleeping. I used to dream in infrared” confessions of a former drone pilot on BBC Witness http://t.co/BYJpFZbyzj [mp3, 9mins] “I stopped sleeping. I used to dream in infrared”… was originally published on Cosmic Anthropology 101
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The Committee to Nuke Elysium 