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The Science Delusion?

Wonderful rebuttal by Deepak Chopra: The Science Delusion? Review of Richard Dawkins: The God Delusion. Materialism vs. spiritualism and God. And resonating with Einstein’s God, or The Hopes for Secular Spirituality. Thank you Richard Dawkins, for writing your “The God … Continue reading

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Einstein’s God, or The Hopes for Secular Spirituality

Wonderful and clear visions on Einstein and God, rational science and spirituality. Chopra uses the term secular spirituality. A pretty paradoxal pearl. If Einstein pointed the way to a new form of spirituality through his comment on Buddhism in which … Continue reading

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Collective Intelligence

Converted my highlights from Pierre Lévy’s Collective Intelligence—Mankind’s emerging world in cyberspace to my wiki. Pierre Lévy’s vision towards the noosphere… Key words: nomadic earth, molar technologies, anthropological spaces, collective intellect, informational universe, commodity space, knowledge space, molecular politics, preceding … Continue reading

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LiveJournal Creator Maps the Long Road to Open Social Networks

LiveJournal Creator Maps the Long Road to Open Social Networks: “People are growing weary of registering and re-declaring their friends on every new social networking site. But Brad Fitzpatrick, creator of LiveJournal and OpenID, says that the tools to build … Continue reading

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How to create Hot Crowds

How to create Hot Crowds: Hot Groups are high performing teams with six characteristics: Hot teams are highly dedicated to end results and are enthusiastic They thrive on ridiculous deadlines and high hurdles to take They are irreverent and non-hierarchical, … Continue reading

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Quantum Theory of Trust

The power and kinds of social networks: Karen Stephenson writes about it in Quantum Theory Of Trust. Get the big picture of social networks. Oh, and while we’re on trust and reputation, the Wizard, Rabbit and Treasurer will be a … Continue reading

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The Future of Bridges: Self-Replicating, Irregular Designs

Harry van der Velde will like this one… The Future of Bridges: Self-Replicating, Irregular Designs: “Self-replicating bridges might be more robust, but also weirder looking, than the nearly magical pieces of civil engineering that human beings come up with. (Via … Continue reading

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The coolest new feature on BookTour: Auto-favorites

The coolest new feature on BookTour: Auto-favorites: Like any other startup, we’ve adding new feature nearly every day on BookTour. But my favorite is one that we added last week. You know the music services, such as Sonic Living, that’can … Continue reading

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Briljante Programmeurs Netwerk

Sanne Roemen en Daan Kortenbach doen een oproep om een coöp van briljante programmeurs op te zetten. Wat mij betreft breiden ze dat uit naar briljante ontwerpers, designers, architecten en projectleiders. En dan lekker agile aan de slag. Als we … Continue reading

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Coming Up – World’s First ‘Zero-Carbon’ City

A city free of cars, pedestrian-friendly, powered by renewable energy and surrounded by wind and photovoltaic farms—all in the middle of a petroleum-rich desert. This five billion US dollar plan, which might do credit to a sci-fi film set, is … Continue reading

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Brad Neuberg on Inventing with Values

Verbatim copy of EEK’s blog entry. Thanks EEK, for sharing this. Brad Neuberg on Inventing with Values: A few months ago, my friend, BradNeuberg, gave the keynote at Yahoo’s internal Front-End Engineering Summit. The video is now online, and it’s … Continue reading

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Freeman Dyson On Open Source Biology

Freeman Dyson, I love you! …the rules of Open Source sharing will be extended from the exchange of software to the exchange of genes. Then the evolution of life will once again be communal, as it was in the good … Continue reading

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Conscious Computing

Now that the world is heating up, so are the discussions and debates on reducing resources required for computing. Reduced power, reduced heating, sleeping and suspending processors and processes. Effective and efficient handling of our computing needs at minimal resource … Continue reading

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Aarde tag cloud

Using ScriptCloud‘s output, I created a tag cloud for the text in the Aarde Vision Bus Tour. Had to fiddle around with the style sheet a bit. The links do nothing, though. Here it is… aims architects architecture billions blogs … Continue reading

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