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“However it happens, the emerging paradigm is much more about networks, messaging, feedback, and biology rather than hierarchy, control, power, and mechanization. Nature is the super-system, the ultimate controller enforcing the laws of physics and prescribing the design templates for fitness & adaptation. If we are, as Kevin Kelley suggests, the sex organs of technology, then our technology is born from the natural imperatives coded deeply into our DNA.”

- chris arkenberg: On Human Networks Living Biosystems

Why I Want a Medical Marijuana Dispensary Near My Children's School

Fri, 11 May 2012 01:07:15 +0200

Why I Want a Medical Marijuana Dispensary Near My Children's School

So You've Got Technology. So What? - Chronical of Higher Education

Thu, 03 May 2012 20:45:51 +0200

So You've Got Technology. So What? - Chronical of Higher Education

In the Battles of SOPA and PIPA, Who Should Control the Internet? | Culture | Vanity Fair

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 15:50:25 +0200

In the Battles of SOPA and PIPA, Who Should Control the Internet? | Culture | Vanity Fair

Joe Brewer: An interdisciplinary approach to understanding complex issues | EcoWalktheTalk

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:22:12 +0200

Joe Brewer: An interdisciplinary approach to understanding complex issues | EcoWalktheTalk

"There’s this amazing prayer by a Jesuit father that says ‘Fall in love with God, stay in love with..."

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:36:13 +0200

““There’s this amazing prayer by a Jesuit father that says ‘Fall in love with God, stay in love with God, and it will change everything,’ ” she says. “I don’t have this ontological commitment to this God that’s kind of out there, but I do have the sense that I’m a little more able to allow myself to experience the good and the aliveness of the world, if that makes any sense.””

- NPR.org » ‘When God Talks Back’ To The Evangelical Community

Interview with an anthropologist studying how evangelical Americans’ relationship with God has evolved to become more personal and imaginative.

The War Against Youth - Esquire

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 03:30:07 +0200

The War Against Youth - Esquire

"Very few people are looking at this digital universe in an objective way. Danny Hillis is one of the..."

Sun, 01 Apr 2012 15:56:36 +0200

“Very few people are looking at this digital universe in an objective way. Danny Hillis is one of the few people who is. His comment, made exactly 30 years ago in 1982, was that “memory locations are just wires turned sideways in time”. That’s just so profound. That should be engraved on the wall. Because we don’t realize that there is this very different universe that does not have the same physics as our universe. It’s completely different physics. Yet, from the perspective of that universe, there is physics, and we have almost no physicists looking at it, as to what it’s like. And if we want to understand the sort of organisms that would evolve in that totally different universe, you have to understand the physics of the world in which they are in. It’s like looking for life on another planet. Danny has that perspective. Most people say just, “well, a wire is a wire. It’s not a memory location turned sideways in time.” You have to have that sort of relativistic view of things”

- A Universe Of Self-replicating Code | Conversation | Edge