October 2010
50 posts
landofnothing asked: many thanks for follow! :D
cloudhead: dollars and sense →
cloudhead:
“Money is a fiction. So why stop at one fictitious currency? Why not have hundreds of currencies each for different uses?” - The Future of Money Project
We will inevitably reach some similar conclusions about the future of time: Hours, seconds, days, weeks, months, years are all just useful…
“We need to move beyond the ticker-tape real time web that we have today and...”
– headmine: the circuitry of crowds (via hm3)
“Today, for instance, we may know immeasurably more about the universe than our...”
– The Need for Transcendence in the Postmodern World (via hm3)
Kevin Kelly and Steven Johnson on Where Ideas Come...
Say the word “inventor” and most people think of a solitary genius toiling in a basement. But two ambitious new books on the history of innovation—by Steven Johnson and Kevin Kelly, both longtime wired contributors—argue that great discoveries typically spring not from individual minds but from the hive mind. In Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation, Johnson draws on...
““In Nature organic growth proceeds according to a “master...”
– — Mankind at the Turning Point
1974
“This in an age when paradigm shifts are taking place at an accelerating pace,...”
– Madhav Nalapat 