Three examples of the #HellYesFuture We’re really getting to the good part, the SF stuff we’ve waited on for decades, wondering if it would ever come. Answer: yes. ============== Let’s Go To Mars =============== http://www.stuff.tv/tesla/stuff-meets-elon-musk/feature “I see us going to Mars in about 10-11 years.”As in a spacecraft with people? People who might want to [...]
Read more →In reply to a question on “on Moonshots and Slingshots” ====== Jelle, I have a very conservative vision for global change. My vision, really, goes as far as six or maybe eight machines which everybody on earth has access to: a smokeless cooking stove, a water filter, a solar powered light, a tablet computer, shelter/clothing [...]
Read more →Seems like just yesterday when I was looking for a sublet in December.. and Twitter came through and found me lovely digs! Moved into my new place in February expecting to be here for a year, starting beginning of the financial year, and unfortunately the folks I’m renting from decided they’d rather have a live-in [...]
Read more →This fine object is the Buckminster Fuller – Design Science Revolutionary shirt by the good Ian Willey. It’s an absolutely lovely design, and I wear mine with pride. Buy one here, or buy one here if you’re in America. The whole process of working with Ian has been a bit mindblowing, really. I’m really a [...]
Read more →Start by watching this or just, you know, click here to crowdfund. Story in a nutshell: Loomio are a team from New Zealand Occupy (the shire!) who noticed that face-to-face consensus processes were dominated by participation inequality as socially difficult, hard-to-listen-to people coopted the democratic process to talk about the price of octopus, or similarly [...]
Read more →Excuse the long title, it’s to help people search for this post – took me ages to find out how to make this work. 1) Download gnome-tweak-tool 2) Under the “typing” option 3) Set CAPS-LOCK as additional super key Done. Everything works just fine, it’s lovely. Still not sure about the keyboard, it sounds like [...]
Read more →(I should be asleep, but I can’t quite get rolled over) I’m really enjoying writing software again. It’s a strain and a challenge, it’s who I used to be, and I’m damn good at it, in my way. I am going to have the luxury of actually writing a lot of code this year, and [...]
Read more →My Bitcoin Expo London talk – now with subtitles. Lucas Gonzalez and I did a transcript and subtitles. Talk covers bitcoin, its competitors, governance, the future, resilience to change, the hexayurt project, and living in a nine billion person world. Key section: the last question gets into whether bitcoin is an Anarchist or a Libertarian [...]
Read more →Vinay Gupta, Change Tears and Shear Planes… how technology is splitting society, and leaving us indecisive from WSA Global Futures on Vimeo. The talk is in three parts: the hexayurt story (with a bit more about materials science than I usually do), followed by tug-of-war trying to break a nanomaterial cable (“string”) and a discussion [...]
Read more →In which I rain hellfire on a debate, espouse an unpopular position, and ask questions about our long term plan. Be warned this is not easy reading: do not burn me at the stake if you don’t like it, I’m not forcing you to read it, think about it, or respond to it. Do as [...]
Read more →A couple of people have asked me recently to describe the model of gender/sexuality/etc. which I was exposed to through my 1990s spiritual practice as a Hindu tantric. It is as follows. The human can be divided (for this purpose) into four layers: absolute consciousness, core spiritual identity, position within a lifetime, and physical body. [...]
Read more →It’s taken me two weeks to write this. This is the pitch for the third Big Picture Day, on Tuesday 20th of August, at Limewharf in London. We’re going to talk about the NSA, Snowden, and the changing relationship we need to have with the technology not to get generation-gapped. REGISTER NOW I knew, as [...]
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