Andrew Korf

: Thalmic Labs

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 10:01:07 -0500

: Thalmic Labs: nabeel: When people talk about changes in computing over the last 40 years, the...

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Mon, 27 May 2013 19:06:25 -0500

bananahan901: #buddha #quotes #wordstoliveby #independent

Wed, 15 May 2013 17:10:27 -0500

bananahan901:

#buddha #quotes #wordstoliveby #independent

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Fri, 10 May 2013 15:08:17 -0500

stoweboyd: How the Postnormal era will change...

Wed, 08 May 2013 21:53:17 -0500

stoweboyd:

How the Postnormal era will change everything

Organizations are becoming fast-and-loose, reconfiguring around social networks instead of business processes, becoming more decentralized and as autonomy increases, more egalitarian.

We will completely drop the pretense of objectivity — a tension that is eating away at journalism and old school media like hydrochloric acid — and accept the inherent need for partiality as the grounding of all belief.

We will belong to our networks — which are our own — and not to institutions that require us to subordinate our interests and selves.

Families will become less Leave it to Beaver and instead we’ll embrace a broad spectrum of alternative living arrangements that include the growing numbers of people who live alone but are very social, groups of friends sharing space and other intentional communities, and non-traditional families with multiple generations living together, gay and lesbian families and all sorts of extended arrangements.

The corner on the postnormal is when we actively work to build an economy that is not fueled by growth and globalism and instead is local and steady-state oriented.

Today’s political boundaries make no sense: they are the outgrowth of royal treaties, conquest, and the misuse of resources. We should start with the natural ecological unit — the watershed — and replace the notion of provinces (US states) with those. I for example, live in the Hudson River Watershed. Locale is still relevant, so people still would be tied to San Francisco, or Beacon NY. And regionalism is still meaningful, but not necessarily the way today’s borders fall. And finally, we need to consider the world and its resources as a shared commons, and not spoils to be owned by the fortunate or wealthy.

Participative media not mass media.

A major transition to restorative and sustainable relationship to the environment is essential, or we will all boil.

And a relaxing of the failed dogmas of orthodox religions, and a more taoist reorientation of our spirituality toward the enigma of life and the universe, and a greater acceptance of the myriad ways in which people might choose to express their awe and faith.

mrdiv: cycloid

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 21:44:27 -0500

mrdiv:

cycloid

Debt, Deficits, and Modern Monetary Theory | Harvard International Review

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 01:07:53 -0500

Debt, Deficits, and Modern Monetary Theory | Harvard International Review: Interesting read on...

@frogdesign and NYC “telephone booths” of the...

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 16:52:08 -0600

@frogdesign and NYC “telephone booths” of the future

Neat Guy via: altnytterfarlig: Ralph Baer is often called the...

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 16:37:58 -0600

Neat Guy

via: altnytterfarlig:

Ralph Baer is often called the father of video games. (via @jamestsanders) His invention, the Magnavox Odyssey, was the first home console system. Last year he celebrated his 90th birthday the same year the Odyssey turned 40. Here he talks about those early days of video game history and why now, at 90 years old, he’s still inventing.

parislemon: nerdology: Ok, one more video. This is incredible,...

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 11:48:38 -0600

parislemon:

nerdology:

Ok, one more video. This is incredible, and beautiful. It’s like the meteor knew to enter the atmosphere during magic hour.

More meteorite porn.

wow.