Our daily life increasingly revolves around blog posts, emails, and status updates.
A snapshot of what happens in one day on the Internet:
Probably the best explanation of the Mayan calendar so far. If for nothing else, Ian Xen Lundgold, who died in 2005, will be remembered for this one. He speaks volumes on the topic, explaining clearly the technical working of the mystified Mayan knowledge and comparing its predictions with the historical facts throughout the times. In his research Ian collaborated a great deal with the most respected scientist of this field, Carl Calleman.
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
The sand is basically settling in the areas of the table that aren’t vibrating. The different shapes are caused by the table’s natural resonance and its harmonics.
Everuthing vibrates!
Brian Eno’s condensed thoughts on the essence of culture. From a seminar about long term thinking given with Will Wright: “Playing with Time” for the Long Now Foundation in San Fransisco, June 26, 2006.
Clip from the documentary film.
Check the whole movie on:
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Dr. NakaMats is very well known in Japan. With more than 3300 patents he is the world record holder of patents. He is about to celebrate his 80 year birthday, but feels younger than ever with an enormous energy. In fact he is certain that he will become 144 years old. But how will Dr. NakaMats accomplish this?
The film follows this extraordinary japanese celebrity on his mission to elongate life. All the while he is creating new inventions.
A documentary film about an extraordinary man.
Shot and directed by Kaspar Astrup Schröder
Edited by Adam Nielsen
Sound by Rasmus Winther
Music by Mark Mothersbaugh and Silas Hite
Produced by Mette Heide
Production by +plus pictures
Lenght: 57 minutes
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- “Nominated for the Official Main Competition — CPH:DOX AWARD” at CPH:DOX Film Festival in november 2009, www.cphdox.dk —
- “Nominated for the IDFA Competition for Mid-Length Documentary”, IDFA International Documentary Film Festival in november Amsterdam 2009, www.idfa.nl -
Taken from the show “Light of the 3rd Millenium”. Pictures are from among various artists like Alex Grey, Mark Henson. Music is Murcof.
Kevin Kelly (Feb 2011): the future is about 6 verbs:
- Screening – we are moving from being “people of the book” to “people of the screen”
- Interacting
- Sharing
- Accessing — not owning
- Flowing – streams/flows of data and information, tags, clouds, not pages, real time, always on (24x7x3765), everywhere, no sense of being completed, feeds, flows of data, books will operate in this same environment
- Generating – not copying; pressure on things to become free; value is in things that cannot be copied (easily or cheaply). We want “easy to pay for but hard to copy”; things such as:
