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How Net Parties Are Changing the Rules of the Political Game

The emergence of Net parties internationally suggest a new era in politics. Technology is the new process that changes the way we work, make decisions, and communicate. Wikipartido's motto: "Collective Intelligence: Better Decisions." (more)

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Weird Worlds and Alternate Realities: A Burning Man Reflection

Darrin Drda

Burning questions filled my mind and appeared on my Facebook page after my return from Black Rock City. I had a hard time making sense of the default world and understanding why I should participate in it. Inasmuch as I was able to maintain a consistent thought, it was this: What, exactly, is the point of it all?

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Godhood Is Boring!

Michael Garfield

Even if we don't end up as the germs in Google's intestinal tract, even if we become the genie we let out of this bottle, it'll undoubtedly disappoint us. "Turning into gods" may seem exciting now, but eventually every new plateau becomes the norm, every age's fancy new garb goes out of fashion – and it seems pretty likely that one day, moving planets will be as prosaic as moving chairs is to us today. When that age comes, will we still seek the awesome creative power of even greater deities? (more)

1-23-12
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Coevolution & The Technology of Desire

Michael Garfield

From one angle we are "the sex organs of technology" — the mushrooms sprouting up from a global mycelium of routers and electrical wiring. From another angle, we live in loving mutuality with a vast distributed intelligence that constantly reshapes itself to better fit our desires. Those of us born before emotional toys might balk at the idea, but we are swiftly approaching a newly in-spirited world where living machines make philosophical questions of sentience irrelevant. (more)

10-19-11
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In the World After Abundance

John Michael Greer

In the future, our current extravagant habits will no longer be an option. An unwillingness to take a hard look at the assumptions underlying our notion of a normal lifestyle has driven a certain amount of wishful thinking, and roughly the same amount of unnecessary dread, among those who have begun to grapple with the challenges ahead of us. (more)

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Playing the Infinite Game

Kevin Kelly

Evolution, life, mind, and the technium are infinite games. Their game is to keep the game going. To keep all participants playing as long as possible. They do that, as all infinite games do, by playing around with the rules of play. The evolution of evolution is just that kind of play. (more)

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The Essential Tension of Ideas

Roy Christopher

One of the key insights in Richard Florida’s latest book, The Great Reset (Harper, 2010) is that rapid transit increases the exchange of ideas and thereby spurs innovation. Where the car used to provide this mass connection, now it hinders it. Increasingly, our cognitive surplus is sitting traffic. (more)

1-5-11
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Program or Be Programmed

Douglas Rushkoff

We tend to think of our technologies in terms of the applications they offer right out of the box instead of how we might change them. We are content to learn what our computers already do instead of what we can make them do. This isn't even the way a kid naturally approaches a video game. (more)

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Magical Thinking

John Michael Greer

If magic instead of science had come out on top in the reality wars of the late Renaissance, we might all be watching movies in which mysterious scientists in white lab coats mutter algebraic formulae, climb astride giant test tubes, and zoom off to the Moon; compare that to real science, and you've got some sense of the gap between Harry Potter and real magic. (more)