User contributions for Caseorganic

26 November 2010

• 23:5123:51, 26 November 2010 diff hist +1,641 N Identity Crises Created page with '===Definition=== In Natural Born Cyborgs, Cognitive Scientist Andy Clark asks “Where, in this increasingly dense biotechnological matrix shall we locate our (human?) selves?”…' current
• 23:5023:50, 26 November 2010 diff hist +21 Wormholes No edit summary current
• 23:4923:49, 26 November 2010 diff hist +163 N Wormholes Created page with 'Astronauts in a bubble, exploring space. Jumping in time from point a to point b, these points and destinations being different planets -- some larger than others.'
• 23:4823:48, 26 November 2010 diff hist +2,057 N Friction and Interfaces Created page with '===Definition=== The analog world is full of friction. It takes a tremendous amount of time and space to get from a place to a goal, or to begin an action or to initialize intera…' current
• 23:4623:46, 26 November 2010 diff hist +2,354 N Quantum Information Theory Created page with '<private> The decoupling approach to quantum information theory. Frédéric Dupuis (Submitted on 9 Apr 2010) Quantum information theory studies the fundamental limits that phys…' current
• 23:4523:45, 26 November 2010 diff hist +1,972 Identity No edit summary
• 23:4423:44, 26 November 2010 diff hist +3,125 The Presentation of Self in Digital Life No edit summary current
• 23:4223:42, 26 November 2010 diff hist +765 N Software Paleontology Created page with '===Definition=== Software has the first digital history. Software’s place in the digital and analog ecosystem is one of continual evolution and adaptation. In May 2009, typog…' current
• 23:4223:42, 26 November 2010 diff hist +1,064 N Digital Worries Created page with '===Definition=== David Weinberger talks gives a history of computers in Everything is Miscellaneous. Before computers were very ubiquitous,”, he writes, people were very worrie…' current
• 23:4123:41, 26 November 2010 diff hist +17 Informational Voluntary Community No edit summary current
• 23:4123:41, 26 November 2010 diff hist +386 N Informational Voluntary Community Created page with 'The fundamental characteristic of such voluntary communities will e their freedom from ties to a local place, a completely new type of voluntary community. The fundamental bon…'
• 23:4023:40, 26 November 2010 diff hist +1,592 N Mass Collaboration Created page with '===Definition=== When a keystroke logs a digital representation of an analog action, actions are converted into text and numbers. Once converted, it is possible to begin examinin…' current
• 23:3923:39, 26 November 2010 diff hist −1 Collective Intelligence No edit summary
• 23:3923:39, 26 November 2010 diff hist +1,123 N Collective Intelligence Created page with '===Definition=== “We can now speed up time to visualize the dynamic aggregations of collective thought, the strange attractors of knowledge, the pulsing nodes of communication …'
• 23:3823:38, 26 November 2010 diff hist +1,422 N URL Shorteners Created page with '===Definition=== But Trilobites are not the only creatures that humans resemble. Let us, for a second, think of a field of flowers, each with a certain amount of pollen. We’ll …' current
• 23:3523:35, 26 November 2010 diff hist +2,112 N Trilobites Created page with '===Definition=== The Trilobite was one of the earliest forms of life, and lived over 500 million years B.C. Trilobites were free-swimming filter feeders were composed of a series…' current
• 23:3323:33, 26 November 2010 diff hist +1,543 N Dangers of Prosthetics Created page with '===Definition=== In Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents, his words suggest "a possible future in which the magnificence of humans as prosthetic gods is tempered by the ill-f…' current
• 23:3123:31, 26 November 2010 diff hist +2,047 N Fractal Prosthetics Created page with '===Definition=== A person’s external devices now allow them to move faster and better (if used correctly) compressing repetitive tasks into simpler things, freeing time (or com…'
• 23:2923:29, 26 November 2010 diff hist +2,521 N Current Prosthetics Created page with '===Description=== Object-relations arise precisely from the “constitutive incompleteness of the individual". “The technical object understood according to its essence – …' current
• 23:2723:27, 26 November 2010 diff hist +1,041 N Oracles Created page with '===Google as Oracle=== Search as "ask the Oracle". Turned off, an iPhone looks like a oracle pool from mythology. Like magic: turn it on, "tell me about China." Done. In this …' current
• 23:1723:17, 26 November 2010 diff hist +1,817 N Early Prosthetics Created page with 'The early spear was an extension of the tooth. With a spear, we could have the equivalent of a Saber Toothed tiger’s ability to capture animals. – but since the spear was not…' current
• 23:1623:16, 26 November 2010 diff hist +1,761 N Prosthetic Shedding Created page with 'Humans shed more than trees do during seasonal change. We shed vehicles, computers, clothing, toothbrushes, and dishes; lawnmowers, cameras, helicopters and buildings. A human …' current
• 23:1523:15, 26 November 2010 diff hist +9,391 N Interface Culture Created page with '===Definition=== “An interface may be described as a common boundary between two systems. The interface between transportation systems is the most neglected element that the pa…'
• 23:1123:11, 26 November 2010 diff hist +1,553 N Power Architecture Created page with '===Definition=== The iPhone is a piece of what we might call power architecture. Power commodity aesthetics. A persons external devices now allow them to move faster and better (…' current
• 23:0923:09, 26 November 2010 diff hist +26 Tribal Aesthetics No edit summary current
• 23:0823:08, 26 November 2010 diff hist 0 Tribal Aesthetics No edit summary
• 23:0723:07, 26 November 2010 diff hist 0 Tribal Aesthetics No edit summary
• 23:0623:06, 26 November 2010 diff hist +2,761 N Tribal Aesthetics Created page with '===Definition=== All aesthetics are tribal, but there's no certain universal sense that that thing is great. It is locally valued - the same in digital ecosystems - things are lo…'
• 23:0123:01, 26 November 2010 diff hist +973 N Democratiziation of the Creative Impulse Created page with '===Definition=== Media is creating forced creativity by putting digital cameras in the hands of individuals. Forced creativity makes people increasingly digitize their lives beca…' current
• 22:5822:58, 26 November 2010 diff hist +1,079 N Social Gravity Created page with '===Definition=== If one applies the General Theory of Relativity to social space, one can see that the shape of space makes people move, and the gravity of the social shapes spac…'
• 22:5222:52, 26 November 2010 diff hist +177 Transforming the Digital into the Analog No edit summary current
• 22:4022:40, 26 November 2010 diff hist +1 Transforming the Digital into the Analog No edit summary
• 22:3922:39, 26 November 2010 diff hist +1,665 N Transforming the Digital into the Analog Created page with '===Definition=== A new iPhone app called Snappy Postcards by Gene Ehrbar of Anomaly Inc. changes this by allowing one to take a photo and send it to someone via mail. Grandmother…'
• 22:3022:30, 26 November 2010 diff hist +24 Ambient Awareness No edit summary
• 22:2722:27, 26 November 2010 diff hist +212 Escape Velocity of Data No edit summary current
• 22:2622:26, 26 November 2010 diff hist 0 N File:Flickr-winter-hood-up.jpg No edit summary current
• 22:2622:26, 26 November 2010 diff hist 0 N File:Flickr-winter-pool.jpg No edit summary current
• 22:2622:26, 26 November 2010 diff hist 0 N File:Open-flickr.jpg No edit summary current
• 22:0022:00, 26 November 2010 diff hist +12,337 N Escape Velocity of Data Created page with '===Definition=== Black holes aren’t really holes. Rather, they are lots and lots of matter so close together that the escape velocity, or the speed that it takes for matter to …'
• 21:5521:55, 26 November 2010 diff hist +1,753 N Value Tumor Created page with '===Definition=== Value tumors are just like cancerous tumors. They appear when there is unconstrained value creation within a closed ecosystem, bloating the system and bringing i…'
• 21:5421:54, 26 November 2010 diff hist +3,663 N Liquid Culture Created page with '===Definition=== There is a classical science experiment in which a drop of food coloring is placed into two different glasses of water. In one glass, the water is hot, and in th…' current
• 21:5121:51, 26 November 2010 diff hist +1,409 N Scrying Pool Created page with '===Definition=== The scrying pool is a device out of the world of magic. It typically used by witches or warlocks to summon images of people, places, or events that happened in t…'
• 21:4921:49, 26 November 2010 diff hist +848 Interface Resolution No edit summary
• 21:4821:48, 26 November 2010 diff hist +1,520 Reputation No edit summary
• 21:4621:46, 26 November 2010 diff hist +1,125 N Reputation Created page with '===Definition=== Reputation is extremely complex. There is no single way to define it: *It can take the form of a hyperlink between two places, abilities, or powers. In other wor…'
• 21:4521:45, 26 November 2010 diff hist +1,854 N Interface Resolution Created page with '===Definition=== In order to handle an increase in data flow, we need wider interfaces, higher resolution interfaces, higher bandwidth interfaces, with those not in our community…'
• 21:4321:43, 26 November 2010 diff hist +1,605 N Schizophrenia Created page with '===Definition=== "Ours is ʻa new form of schizophreniaʼ, Baudrilliard said of the current era, “the emergence of ʻan immanent promiscuity and the perpetual interconnection o…'
• 21:4021:40, 26 November 2010 diff hist +14 Living Text No edit summary current
• 21:3721:37, 26 November 2010 diff hist +2,776 N Living Text Created page with '===Definition=== The first instance of living text occurred when we first began writing to one another. On Twitter, we are living text. On Flickr, narrative freeways in the sha…'
• 21:0721:07, 26 November 2010 diff hist +100 Hypersigil No edit summary