Think Again: Intelligence
Here are seven premises that have allowed a secret intelligence community costing the US taxpayer as much as $100 billion dollars a year to exist without being held accountable for systemic and specific failures.
Download the Peeragogy Handbook
The Peeragogy Handbook, spearheaded by Howard Rheingold (author of Smart Mobs), is the world’s first to present a synthesis of techniques for collaborative learning and collaborative work.
20 Open Source Furniture Designs
Open source furniture design is popping up these days. Open Design means mainly two things: documentation is shared freely so that users can make their own models, furnitures are made with digital fabrication and can be reproduce in a makerspace or FabLab.
PermaCities: The Social Media Game That Will Teach You How to Farm
Discover an open-source, environmentally conscious game that promises to be an alternative to Farmville.
The New Digital Order: Nefarious Nerds and Machines of Loving Grace
The Internet still holds promise as a tool for positive political, social, and even evolutionary transformation. Yet like all tools, it can be used to help or harm, create or control, empower or imprison.
Mondo History
A new 'open source history' project aims to document the crazy story of Mondo 2000, a counterculture magazine that helped popularize transhumanism, cyberpunk, and psychedelics back in the late 80's and early 90's.
Reinventing Money: An Eco-systemic Approach (Part 2)
Complementary currencies provide a systemic solution to the instability of the monetary system. Historical precedent has demonstrated that complementary currency systems have fostered stability not only during the Great Depression of the 1930s, but also during every subsequent business cycle of the economy.
Future Mutations: An Interview with RU Sirius
RU Sirius is a writer, musician, and one-time presidential candidate best known for co-founding and editing the early '90s psychedelic cyberculture magazine Mondo 2000. In this interview, RU explores Open Source politics, transhumanism, and the wisdom of Robert Anton Wilson. "There's this group mutation that seems to have grown out of the counterculture – a new and possibly evolutionary, collaborationalist mind-meld."
