Heterochronia: It’s explicitly non-retro, even more so not retro-future, or retro 8…

heterochronia:

It’s explicitly non-retro, even more so not retro-future, or retro 8 bit. The look overlaps with this season’s aztec fixation, but even appropriating such imagery ruled a piece out of consideration. Sometimes it’s just the right colours, or the cut. It’s more gradient fill than pixels….

Notes on the Tribe Of The Strange: Pop (Culture) Has Eaten Itself

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Top rant from Chris Knowles, on rationalism’s gutting of the best of geek culture and so much more. Main take-away for the Tribe is this bit:

All of the skeptics and atheists talk tough now when the Religious Right are in relative decline, but spent their time worrying about palm readers…

Notes on the Tribe Of The Strange: Pop (Culture) Has Eaten Itself

We, the Web Kids by Piotr Czerski

tribeofthestrange:

Read the whole thing, not the truncated version at The Atlantic!

This may as well be a manifesto for the Tribe – aside from the assumption that this kind of non-zero-sum network mindset is exclusive to the modern young… The Tribe has always known this – but, to paraphrase Phil Dick, we lacked the term.

“We have learned to accept that instead of one answer we find many different ones, and out of these we can abstract the most likely version, disregarding the ones which do not seem credible. We select, we filter, we remember, and we are ready to swap the learned information for a new, better one, when it comes along.”

We, the Web Kids by Piotr Czerski

Arcfinity: Author announcement: Bruce Sterling kicks off Arc 1.1

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“Visionaries, prophets and seers are common to all mankind,” says Bruce Sterling, “but only societies with science can breed futurists.”

Arc is a magazine about the future, but we’re still working out what that means. So we asked one of Sterling, one of science fiction’s more astute writers…

Arcfinity: Author announcement: Bruce Sterling kicks off Arc 1.1

The capacity to learn from others is one of the traits that have made humans such a global success story. Relying on it too much, however, could have contributed to the demise of past populations, such as the Maya of southern Mexico in the eighth and ninth centuries and Norse settlers in…

Notes on the Tribe Of The Strange: Conformists may kill civilizations