Jason Silva’s experimental essay on “Intertwingularity”
Annotations: Chris Anderson, curator of The TED Conference, recently spoke about the human mind, the power of imagination and the life-form Teilhard called the "noosphere". Thou...
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theeconomiccollapseblog.com [31Jan11] Once upon a time, the Internet was a bastion of liberty and freedom, but now nation after nation is cracking down on it. a possible reality worth noticing, and...
View ArticleCivil Unrest: Contagion, Self-Organization, and Prediction
Civil unrest is a powerful form of collective human dynamics, which has led to major transitions of societies in modern history. In contrast, the possibility that civil unrest activities, across...
View ArticleGlobal Economic Downturn: A Crisis of Political Economy
“The current economic crisis is best understood as a crisis of political economy. Moreover, it has to be understood as a global crisis enveloping the United States, Europe and China that has different...
View ArticleNASA’s Maps of US Trees Will Be a “Before” Picture for Deforestation
NASA has created a map of the all the trees in the United States to serve as an inventory and provide a “before” picture for climate change… See on www.treehugger.com
View ArticleRio Plus 20: What Prospects for the Next UN Mega-Conference?
There is growing global sentiment that the era of grand multilateral treaty-making is over. Recurrent disputes over burden-sharing, and the specter of national vetoes, tends to tie negotiators into...
View ArticleNew Report issues a warning about humanity’s ability to survive without a...
2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years, by Jorgen Randers, launched by the Club of Rome on May 7, raises the possibility that humankind might not survive on the planet if it continues on its...
View ArticleStudent Power Convergence 2012
College students are under attack in the United States, and around the world. One only need look as far as Quebec or Mexico for evidence of student uprising. … in Washington politicians debated for...
View ArticleImmigration Reform: Stop Ejecting the Brightest Minds From America
The xenophobia underlying current immigration policy has three consequences for the U.S. technology industry. First, the know-how for all sorts of new companies is being expelled from America. Second,...
View ArticleDrones for dummies
See on Scoop.it – Rise of the Drones If you’ve checked out the news these past few (or many) months, you’ve probably noticed some news about drones: Drones used by the CIA to vaporize suspected...
View ArticleUAS Attracting Interest From New Users but Still Prompt Worries, Speakers Say
See on Scoop.it – Rise of the Drones AUVSI President and CEO Michael Toscano appeared alongside MIT’s Missy Cummings to discuss the state of the technology. Integrating unmanned aircraft into the...
View ArticleOut of India’s Trash Heaps, More Than a Shred of Dignity
See on Scoop.it – Arrival Cities Pune, India, has developed a a waste-management approach that is improving the environment, as well as the livelihoods and social standing of some of the city’s poorest...
View ArticleCliodynamics in predictive simulations
"To Peter Turchin, who studies population dynamics at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, the appearance of three peaks of political instability at roughly 50-year intervals is not a coincidence....
View ArticleTechnology and the Intelligence of Nature
See on Scoop.it – The Next Edge Charles Eisenstein shares his concerns about how pervasive the ‘technology will fix it’ mentality has become, and proposes an entirely different approach to healing our...
View ArticleDetroit | Y Worlds
See on Scoop.it – Arrival CitiesRESURRECTION Y Worlds formally offers the City of Detroit, the State of Michigan and the United States Government a plan to make Detroit the first collaboratively...
View Article‘Intelligent’ drones being developed at UNM
See on Scoop.it – Rise of the Drones In a basement lab at the University of New Mexico, grad student Corbin Whilhelmi’s research has a mind of its own. He’s developing a flying, thinking, robot....
View ArticleThe “Future140″ Project (Future140 Part 1)
Before the summer began I started a project that I thought could turn the world upside down — or rather, right-side up. I was excited beyond reason and I immediately wanted to feature my first guest....
View Article2014: Crude Oil’s Production Peak?
The Peak Oil crisis is an ongoing discussion here on Amplify. Just look at all we’ve been amplifying on the subject. http://amplify.com/search/1-peak%20oil Clipped from www.sciencecodex.com In a...
View ArticleMore Global Trade = More Global Emissions
Essentially “outsourced” production and the required shipping produces ‘troubling’ global CO2 emissions. This obvious point is all too often overshadowed by the hype of hybrid/electric cars. Clipped...
View ArticleBanning e-waste trade won’t Stop the Ecocide
Current patterns cannot continue and government can’t seem to get it right. We need computers that don’t have planned obsolescence and a more hands on DIY repair mentality. Of course, far less...
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