About an alternative to Bentham's panopticon: a distributed, polyvalent, multi-modal network of synthetic intelligences. By Stephanie Sherman
A lookout rather than stakeout, cultivation rather than control, surveyance rather than surveillance, protectorate rather than inspectorate
About how reality and media consumption increasingly resembles the act of playing an alternate reality game. By Jon Askonas
You will all be assimilated
About the loss of a powerful cultural symbol of the human body working in unison with the engineered world. By Ian Bogost
About more deeply experience of time and other sensory experiences. By Venkatesh Rao
About eight things to think about regarding complexity, systems thinking, and cybernetics. They apply to management, innovation, society, and ecology. By Benjamin P. Taylor
Here’s how you can learn to see the normally hidden effects of polarised light that some animals use for navigation.
We are living through an extraordinary and precarious chapter in humanity’s story.
Technology often presupposes human domination, but it could instead reflect our ecological dependence
In “Ferrari,” his first film since 2015 — and in “Heat 2,” his first ever novel — the director returns to his great theme: outsiders with a brutal determination to win.
Holding forth on stuff since 1998
Technologies such as avatars and digital wallets are unbundling our digital identities and rebundling them in new ways.
Rising global temperatures are altering climatic zones around the planet, with consequences for food and water security, local economies, and public health. Here’s a stark look at some of the distinct features that are already on the move.
The Extinction Clock: the Internet's authoritative source for end of world climate and extinction predictions.
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Uber just released its Q2 numbers for 2022 and trumpeted that it had finally achieved cash-flow positivity — and it only took 13 years and $32 billion in losses! So has Uber finally turned a corner…
Even big fare hikes and cuts to driver pay have failed to produce profits at Uber. And these pricing changes are not likely to be sustainable.
We may be in the early stages of a transition from silicon-based to carbon-based computing. Carbon-based computers may even use DNA to store and process information - and may even be instantiated within living organisms. For an example, see this article about a new and better way to store “big data” in DNA… potentially even
United made $10 million in predelivery payments for 100 of the aircraft being developed by Archer Aviation
About the art of quitting: Aston Martin F1 driver, Sebastian Vettel will retire from #F1 at the end of the 2022 season, bringing one of the greatest careers in the history of the sport...
Commercetools CEO Dirk Hoerig explains headless commerce and microservices, and why we'll see innovation in AR, in-car, and B2B commerce.
If this crypto-winter is another “tulip bubble” then that is actually very good news.
The amount of money it has taken Chase—and will continue to require the bank—to build out a full-service travel business isn’t just about serving existing customers. It’s about new customer acquisition and changing the nature of competition in the credit card space.
And once again, as happens often with consequential news in the United States and the West, no one has noticed and no one seems to care.
Direct connectivity between the cross-border payment company and the data aggregator will let Wise's 13 million customers use the 6,000 fintech apps in Plaid's network without the need for a bank account.
'Once Upon AI - Inspired by Yuval Noah Harari' is an experimental animation that is made entirely of A.I.-generated images, prompted and inspired by Harari’s...
For today’s story, I will be comparing OpenAI’s Dall-E2 and MidJourney AI art generator tool with identical prompts. I have tried several other art generators out there but these two are the most…
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Talking about AI art with MidJourney and Blender.Support my work: https://curtisholt.online/patreonCheck out my other resources: https://curtisholt.online/st...
Here's an informative analysis for you to get the most out of it.
If I saw this a few years ago, I wouldn't believe my eyes. Art-making robot generating astounding concept art from your text prompt, in seconds. Something BI...
Hyundai’s new robotics venture recalls Bell Labs’ and Xerox PARC’s glory days
AI-created models of the brain will enhance art, advertising, and health by predicting how our minds will respond to images and sounds.
The Ethereum creator said corporate attempts at the metaverse will fail because “it’s far too early to know what people actually want.”
Christie’s, a world leading auction house founded in 1776, announced this week that it will create its own in-house investing firm, Christie’s Ventures, which will focus on three areas: Web 3.0…
Isness-D — a therapeutic VR experience — reportedly works just as well as medium doses of LSD or psilocybin at bringing users to self-transcendence.
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A detailed account of the role of "future archeologists" at the Museum of the Future and how they brought to the present a culture from the future.
Home today is less a protective shelter but an embodied interface
For the past year, I’ve been serving as a senior advisor to the Institute for the Future’s Equitable Enterprise Initiative, along with great new economics thinkers and practitioners from Jerry Davis…
There are four phases to the emergence of AI. The first incantation of simple artificial intelligence was what we call “expert systems” in the old IT lingua franca. An attempt to codify expert…
Le poète belge Christian Dotremont, animateur du mouvement COBRA, invente une écriture-dessin. Ecrivain, principal animateur du mouvement artstique Cobra, Christian Dotremont invente le logogramme en 1962.
Strange video in Mu.ZEE in Oostende. Voice in a heavy German accent, telling a story of a man in a Jaguar ending first in a race, but with a dead dog sticking to the front of the car. Video is "private" on YouTube, unfortunately.
The conventional line on Dadaism (the influential early-20th c. art movement) is that it was a cultural response to the horror and absurdity of the First World War, which had just decimated Europe…
AI Art Generators are Here and They're Poised to Change the Art World Forever but an Increasingly Bizarre and Strange Range of Reactions from the General Public Threaten AI Before it Really Blossoms
An virtual BioMedium opens an exhibition and a self-playing piano receives its melody from space – the age of BioMedia is here!For centuries, humans have att...
Explore a world of artful connection. Introducing the Gallery, curated by Ripple.
July 2021, presenter Lucas de Man visits VR installation Enter New Babylon and talks to the young designers and writer who have created four virtual world ba...
Sent to capture a shop display, the famed photographer focused instead on a man sleeping on the pavement
Watch it on Dogwoof On Demand: https://watch.dogwoof.com/film/cunningham/CUNNINGHAM is a 3D cinematic experience about the legendary American choreographer, ...
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Het labyrint is opgebouwd rond het thema klimaat en duurzame landbouw.Het labyrint is 12 voetbalvelden groot. Dit is gelijk aan een oppervlakte van ongeveer ...
British photographer Harley Weir profiles artist Jacques Lucas and his lifelong creation, La Maison Sculptée, an enchanting example of outsider art as archit...
DRIFT: Social Sacrifice at the Venice Biennale 2022.This new performance, Social Sacrifice, is inspired by the collective intelligence and cooperation exhibi...
david altrath captures the brutalist mariendom church which is regarded as one of the most important spatial creations of the 20th century.
Joni Mitchell “Both Sides Now” with Brandi Carlile Live at Newport Folk Festival, July 24, 2022.Joni’s Jam consists of Joni Mitchell, Brandi Carlile, Allison...
During three weekends, the intense connection between the People of Tomorrow and the special union of positive energy across all borders brought magic and a ...
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She betrayed her music to petty culture warriors
The new single from Toyah is out to download and stream on Friday 12 August. Video exclusively premieres on Saturday 13 August 2022.Stream/Download: https://...
Nichelle Nichols, best known for her role as Nyota Uhura on Star Trek, died at age 89. Nichols made history as the first Black woman to hold a leading role on television.
A French scientist has apologized after tweeting a photo of a slice of chorizo, claiming it was an image of a distant star taken by the James Webb Space Telescope.