Magic & the Higgs Boson
Magic may not be what we think it is. In fact, it may be very much more. It may in fact be everything, and everything that is not magic simply is not. In other words, life itself is magic.
Keeping The Portal Open: Erik Davis on TechGnosis and the Blurring “Real” & “Virtual”
Over a glitchy Google Hangout, Erik and I discussed our culture’s highest hopes and darkest dreams for our collective future, and how they’ve both become more complicated since the turn of the millennium.
Reflections on Damanhur (Part 1)
My impression of Damanhur is that it is one of the hotspots of miracles on earth. Unlike most metaphysical musings, the operating mythology of Damanhur is generating results.
The Rise of an Intuitive Humanity
There is something immensely exciting happening here on this planet. Something is rising within us, amongst us, through us, and penetrating the very fabric of our reality. It is a transformation without words, passing through each and every individual.
Mark Frauenfelder: The Algorithm of Geek
As drinks the Irishman, Boing Boing founder Mark Frauenfelder just always had it: The Algorithm of Geek. In this interview, he talks about Boing Boing’s cyberpunk roots and what it’s like to live online today.
Techgnostic Nature: Reimagining Technology with Soul
This is a pixelated invitation to breathe curiosity and life into our relationship with the technological world, starting with the devices and processes which connect us all to each letter we are seeing on this virtual page, right here, right now.
Karim Jabbari’s Light Calligraphy Illuminates the Desert Night
One interpretation of the quantum field equations is that there is just a single photon weaving through the universe – a single photon looping through eternity, and all the world’s calligraphy in light, all one unbroken gesture.
Global Brains & Singularities: Cadell Last & Michael Garfield Debate The Technopocalypse
Cadell Last is an evolutionary anthropologist at the Global Brain Institute and producer of the PBS Digital Studios series The Advanced Apes. We discussed the possibility that our entire planet is waking up as a single super-intelligent organism, and the consequences – both light and dark – for both humankind and the whole biosphere…
Seeing Music Without Hallucinogens
MIT has found a way to see sound. Yes. You heard that right. We can now reproduce sounds that were played in the presence of an object using only the visual recording of that object.
The Secret of Minecraft
There are dangerous creatures lurking in this world, including but not limited to giant spiders and skeleton archers. But they only venture out at night, and they can be deterred by walls. The sun (a bright cube) sets fast, so your first task is always the same: Build a shelter.
The genius of Minecraft is that the game does not specify how this is done.
