Weekly Links, 07/15/2022
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The Need For a Body
Wishful Worries
Robots Will Make Us Better Humans
The Religions of Aliens
Future Scarcities
The Propriety Path Platform
Good Morning, New Robots!
More Wubble
Non-Assigned Names
Weekly Links, 07/23/2021
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Not Future-Proofing
The Maintenance of Wealth
Law of Universal Uniqueness
Three Levels of Eugenics
Aliens Are Here on Earth
Training AIs to Make Art
Art / Not Art
Art As an Excuse
Alloception: I Saw Someone In There
The Need for World Government
Construction is Life
What Everyone Knows
The Need for Long-term Research
Growth vs Evolution
How to Future
Reasons to Tour By Bicycle
Truth vs Trust
103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known
Dynamic Census
Weekly Links, 03/04/2022
The Big Here Quiz
Movable Futures
Some Contemporary Heresies
Ideas Want to be Shared
The Photonic Age
Always-On Spatial Audio
Your Security is My Security
The Third Way
Embracing the Improbable
The Irresistible Future
The Thinkism Fallacy
Still Out of Control
The Tiny Web
The Water and Oil Planet
The Bigger, Better Boom
Pets, Aliens, Spirits, and Slaves
Class 1 / Class 2 Problems
Weekly Links, 06/11/2021
99 Additional Bits of Unsolicited Advice
Concluding our 25-year Bet
The Essential Workshop Tool Kit
68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice
Second Order Risk
Virus Scenarios
Recent Readings 14
Recent Readings, 13
Recent Readings, 12
Recent Readings, 11
Recent Readings, 10
Recent Readings, 9
Cyberweapons: A Real Worry
Recent Readings, 8
Arrival of the Babel Fish
Dumbsmart
Ingenic
Recent Readings, 7
Recent Readings, 6
Recent Readings, 5
Progress and the Randomized Time Machine
Recent Readings, 4
Asian Innovation
The Super-Power of Reading
The Underpopulation Bomb
Recent Readings, 3
Lie Detection
Recent Readings, 2
Virtual Live-Action in a Virtually Real Film
Recent readings
Data Manifesto
The Myth of a Superhuman AI
Why I Don’t Worry About a Super AI
Sourced Quotes, 21
AI, or Alien Intelligence
Sourced Quotes, 20
How to Use Artificial Intelligence
A Desirable-Future Haiku
What Bits Want
You Are Not Late
Platforms Trump Products
The Least Resistance to New Ideas
The Technium Test
Sourced Quotes 18
Rules for Cyberwar
Bypassing Sold Out
Sourced Quotes, 17
The Self-Publishing Route
The Pleasures of a Paper Book
Sourced Quotes, 16
Personal Shadow Outsourcing
I’ll Pay You to Read My Book
The Improbable is the New Normal
Pain of the New
The Decisive Hour
The Post-Productive Economy
Pre-Globalism
The Average Place on Earth
Myth of the Lone Villain
Sourced Quotes, 15
Robot, Child of God
The Rule of Transformation
I See Cats
User Pre-Funding
Sourced Quotes, 14
Cosmicism
Filling Turing’s Cathedral
Sourced Quotes, 13
The Ciphers of Social Media
Next Phase of Commercials
Fixity vs Fluidity
The Next Transitions in the Technium
Life at the Edge of Space
Undetectable Technology
We Are Stardust
A Whole Lot of Nothing
Making Holes in Our Heart
Sourced Quotes, 12
What the Public Commons Is Missing
Beyond the Uncanny Valley
Supercut Genre
Sourced Quotes, 11
On the Origin of Technological Species
Steam-Engine-Time
Hangout With the Technium
Irreproducible Results
Asia Grace Time Machine App
Plateau of Progress
The 7 Stages of Robot Replacement
The Technology of Global Unrest
You Are a Robot
Culturomics
What You Don’t Have to Do
The Paperback Option
Found Quotes, 10
The Art of Burning Man
Theological Chatbots
Environments Are Invisible
The Futurist’s Dilemma
Why the Impossible Happens More Often
Self-publishing Today
Found Quotes, 9
Generatives
Your Two Things
Cities Are Immortal; Companies Die
McLuhan at 100
The California Ideology
The Internet Is My Religion
Found Quotes, 8
Corporate Long-term-ism
Bootstrapping Steel
Technological Superstition
The Binding Uncertainty of the Present
The Quantifiable Self
Designed in California
Post-Artifact Booking
The Clock in the Mountain
2019 Unthinkables
A Different Beauty For Space
When Hard Books Disappear
Vertical Gardens
Middle Kingdom Technium
The Stealthy Anonymart
Screening
Producing an International Kindle Version
Makers on Parade
Found Quotes 7
Protopia
Tech Shopping Rules of Thumb
Who’s Your City
3 Renegades
China’s DNA
Jesus and Divine Evolution
Techno Life Skills
Would You Pay For Search?
Easy Exotic
The Library of Utility
Born Digital
The Invisible Hook
A Humanity-Scaled Wiki Time Capsule
Natural History of a New Idea
The Search for Internet Intelligence
Roar of an Earthquake
The Art of Endless Upgrades
Rapidly Oscillating Evolution
What Books Will Become
A Taxonomy of Gods
No Search Neutrality, Please
The Gravity of Paper
Technologies Don’t Go Extinct
Found Quotes, 6
From Mass to Mesh
Current Uncertainties
Infinite Order in All Directions
Bicycle Haiku
Free-Range Games
Scroll Back Media
Proverbs of St. McLuhan
Multiplexing vs Multitasking
Street Food Trucks
The Satisfaction Paradox
Laser-Back Travel
Crowdmapping Radiation
Found Quotes, 5
The Story of Information
Self-Tracking? You Will
Radical Optimism
Invention and Discovery Are the Same
Passing a Worst-Case Scenario Test
Art Is What You Get Away With
Tipping Asia
Rehearsing for Mars in a Container
Travel Without Baggage
Feature, Product, Company
The Information
Your Attention is Cheap: $2.50/per Hour
Pocket Banks
Found Quotes, 4
The Amount of Information in the World
Nice Air Book
In Praise of the Segway
Simultanology
99 Cent Books
Computational X
The Stars of 1,000 True Fans
Incorruptible Technologies
The Possiplex
There Aint No Heat Death
Readers of the Screen
The Positive Balance of Technology
Emergent Religions
Google-Unique Names
Free Kindle This November
Found Quotes, 3
Screen Publishing
Nowcasts: Predicting the Present
Modern Ruins
Prophesies of McLuhan
Sky Lanterns
Possibilians vs Agnostics
Speaking of the Technium
Forums & Discussions
Book Launch
We, the Domesticated Cyborg
Fresh Physical Books
A New Way of Reading
Found Quotes, 2
Predicting the Present, First Five Years of Wired
Get a Job as a Piracy Snitch
Data-Driven Lives
Two Kinds of Generativity
Your Personal Funsmith
MirrorMan
The Evolution of Evolution’s Evolution
Geeky Music Visualizations
The Long Tail of Life
Myths More Powerful Than Facts
Trickles of Energy
Collections of the Material Subconscious
Giving Life to the Unmoving
As Much Privacy As You Can Afford
How to Thrive Among Pirates
The Shirky Principle
Twitter Predicts the Future
The Portable Window
Family of Five Tandem
Virtual Choir
Making Organic Structure Visible
DYI Garage Biotech
Glottal Opera
Nexted
The Game-ified Life
The Rippies, New Yippies on the Right
Portal to the Id: World Weekly News
Tending the Garden of Technology
The 2-Billion-Eyed Intermedia
Loved Avatar’s World-Making
1,000 Years of Forgetting
Proverbs for the Future
The Web is Large
What Technology Wants, first talk
Penny Thoughts on the Technium
What Technology Wants, first draft
Evolution of the Space Station
Remix of Out of Control
Oldest Living Things in The World
Evolution of Origin of Species
Extropy
Social Media Venn
Ratcheting Up Autonomy
The Most Powerful Force in the World
Expansion of Free Will
Progression of the Inevitable
Crowdsourced 3D City
Very Short History of the Planet Earth
Free Wins Against Malaria
Effective Apology Skills
Crowdsourced Music Video
Was Moore’s Law Inevitable?
650 Million Years in 1.2 Minutes
The Long Book
Five Unstoppables
Chosen, Inevitable, and Contingent
How to Get People to Pay
Innovative Publishing Model
The Choice of Cities
Investigative journalism by amateurs
Why Technology Can’t Fulfill
Map Label on Package
Triumph of the Default
Future Fossil of the Technium
The Fifth and Sixth Discontinuity
Technophilia
Taxonomy of Internet Maps
The Internet Mapping Project
Never underestimate the web
Increasing Ubiquity
Digital Socialism
Increasing Specialization
Galactic Center Rising
Increasing Diversity
Infinite In Some Directions
The Arc of Complexity
Upcreation
Vanishing Muslims and the Shift to Africa
Digital Recovery of Moon Images
Bendy Map Projection
Adaptive Basins and Strange Peaks
Ordained-Becoming (Part 2)
Ordained-Becoming
Found Quotes
Inevitable Minds
The Persistence Paradox
Reasons to Diminish Technology
Building the 10K Clock
Computational DNA
The World Without Technology
Particles Have Free Will
Taxonomy of Business Models
The Greatest Waster of Time
Maps of Knowledge
Not Your Usual Trends
Ethnic Technology
Expanding Flexibility
Worldbuilding 2
The Worldbuilder Interface
The One Universal GoogleBook
The Sudden Appearance of Technology
So Amazing, But Nobody is Happy
Free Genetic Testing
Collapsitarians
The Unabomber Was Right
Many Species, One Mind
Network Nation
Amish Hackers
Two Strands of Connectionsim
Open-Source DNA
What Technology Wants
Slumdog Tourism
The Cosmic Genesis of Technology
Technology, or the Evolution of Evolution
Better Than Owning
Consequences of Technological Convergence
Lifehacking, the Whole Earth Catalog Archive
As If
Evolution of Bots
Fossil Cities
Notable Blogs/List of Lists
A New Kind of Mind
Breakup of the USA
Wooden Horses
Welcome to the Anthropocene
Whole Earth Video
Movage
Technology, a Geological Force
If Your Website Were a Person
What Comes After Minds?
Earning Money From the Free
The Used Future
Curvy Thinking
Screen Fluency
The Next 1000 Years of Christianity
The Missing Near Future
Who Should We Be?
Anachronistic Science
The Pro-Actionary Principle
Eye-Cam Wanted
Recursive Generation
The Origins of Progress
The Ninth Transition of Evolution
Evidence of a Global SuperOrganism
New Kind of Truth
Flag of Earth
Cloud Culture
Long Clock, Big Gear
The Expansion of Ignorance
Thinkism
Narrow Gates of Inevitability
Where Attention Flows, Money Follows
13 Generations
Are We Duped By the Technium?
Looking For Ugly
The Whole Earth Blogalog
Pranksters 2.0
Everything, Too Cheaply Metered
Hi-Tech Ocean Row Boats
The Landscape of Possible Intelligences
Heinlein’s Fan Mail Solution
Truman Show Delusion
The Wisdom of Public Prediction Markets
Other Isomorphic Keyboards
The End of Video as Evidence of Anything
Neal Stephenson and the 10,000-Year Clock
Looking For the Mouse
Why People Pirate Stuff
New Geometric Keyboard
Me-to-We Opening Ceremonies
Another One for the Machine
Where Quotes Come From
Friendability
Outstanding in the Field
A Trillion Hours
Literature-Space Vs. Cyberspace
The Next 5,000 Days
People Want To Pay
How to Make New Things
Face Swapper Privacy
Chips of Broken Glass
Fate of the Book
Not Quite Dead Media
Wagging the Long Tail of Love
Is the “First Movable Type” a Hoax?
GoogleUnique Names
Neo-Amish Drop Outs
Where the Linear Crosses the Exponential
Beach Art
Power Awareness Quiz
Tangible Interface
The Unclear Origins of Oil
The Google Way of Science
Follow the Moon
Machine Fecundity
China Is an Island
Unthinkable Futures
One Dead Media
Will We Let Google Make Us Smarter?
Scenius, or Communal Genius
New Rules for the New Biology
The Million Dollar Long Bet
The Power of Failure
Airblades
Tools for Vizuality
The Worth of Recommendation Engines
Symbiotic Fanfic
Real Fake Self-Portraits
Technologies That Connect
Bribe Your New Employees To Quit
NAQ – Never Asked Questions
Loving Robotic Jellyfish
The Giant Pool of Money, Explained
Painted Films
Junkyard Sports
Astounding Animated Wall Mural
Simultaneous Invention
The Cell Phone Platform
Spammer AI
VR Bubbles
Poptimistic
Total Personlization Needs Total Transparency
Ghost Bikes
Tour of World Cities at Night
The Case Against 1000 True Fans
McLuhan, Web 2.0 Master
Self-Generating Money vs. Productive Wealth
Your Eternal Webpage
The Reality of Depending on True Fans
The Anti-Portfolio of Investments Not Made
Control Rooms: From Temples to Thrones
The Machine That Made Us
Zillionics
Digital Things I’ve Been Wrong About
Affluence is Good
Country Code Map
Single Note Control in Recorded Music
Evolution of Proteins Animated
Wiki Correction-Stream
Governing Sovereign Wealth Flows
Car Tattoos
Results from an Experiment in Ad-Driven Books
Testing the Veracity of the Internet
Material Fingerprints
A Web Page For Every Species
Turing’d
HyperReal Homer
Consensus on Colors
Short Is In
Humanity’s Identity Crises
The (Unspeakable) Ultimate Machine
Tools for Big Love
Yuri’s Night
Why Leapfrogging is Rare
1,000 True Fans
The Wikipedia Deletion Wars
Non-Commodificable in Newsprint
BIL, the Unconference
Evolution and Ontogeny of Game Characters
The Near-Death Experience of Dying in a Game
The Variety of Polyhedrons
The Kitchen Computer
Flash Presentations, 20/20
Live HD
Work Habits
Circle of Life
Subterranean Tutoring
The Bottom is Not Enough
An Eternal Last Goodbye
Defining Waterboarding
Freeconomy
Visual Music Instruments
Downtailing
Playing Digital Games Together
Better Than Free
Forest-Fire Marketing
Incremental Vs. Discrete Content
The Platform is the Computer
How Buildings Learn
Social Networking Chain-Letter
Election Prediction Markets
The Future Doesn’t Matter
Lumpers and Splitters
Doomsday Art
Sanctuaries of Disconnection
How Not to Do a Time Capsule
Addiction Vaccines
Believing the Impossible
Videogame Symphonies
Computational Advertising
How To Find a Doctor
Extra-less Films
International Burning Man, 2008
My Dream Machine
The Phone Interface of the Future
The Future is Not Vending Machines
Interactive Petroglyphs
One Trick At a Time
Historicity
The Bridge Between Atoms and Bits: 2D Code
Maximum Philanthropy: Encouraging Giving in Asia
Original Hyper Fake Reproductions
The New Eliza: Chat Marketing
Four Stages in the Internet of Things
The Way of Japan vs Any Way in China
How to know you know
Loving Technology
What Laptops Should Be
The Always On Book
Perfect History
A Cloudbook for the Cloud
Technology Wants To Be Free
Waterboarding Is Controlled Drowning
The New Economy Master
Dimensions of the One Machine
Open Immigration: A Basic Human Right
Extreme Pumpkin Carving Art
Retail Dynamic Contextual Pricing in The New Economy
Not Happy With Crappy
The Influence of Science Fiction on Science
Disconnecting the Dark Pools of Liquidity
The New Art of Simpits
Wikipedia: Human-Powered Search
Mutating Art From Chaos
How Much Power Does the Internet Consume?
The Value of Search, 2
Awesome Musical Tapes From Africa
How much does one search cost?
Interroton Interviewing Machine
American Vagabonds
Internet Allstars Seven Years Later
Big Vegetable Obsessions
ReCaptcha: Artificial AI
Doodle as Interface for Prototyping
Tangible Bouncy Fun
Golden Gate Bridge International Orange
Holy Technology
Nerd Humor
David Byrne; From Bauhaus to Yow-howz!
The Case for Accelerating Adulthood
A Year of Following All the Rules in the Bible
Sand Crop Circles
My Life Countdown
100,000-Year Memory Candidate
Snowkiting
A New Corner in the Future of Advertising
Patients Like Us
Invariant Ratio of Lifespan
Harry Plotters and the Prophesies of the Hive Mind
The Gift of Stuff
The Maes-Garreau Point
Every Organism Is a Hack
Bootstrapping the Industrial Age
Ownership Is Use
Dealing With Rogue Technologies
Major Stages of the Technium
Everything That Doesn’t Work Yet
Lifelogging, An Inevitability
Being Is All Maintenance
Expected and Unexpected Inventions
Humans Are the Sex Organs of Technology
A Taxonomy of Minds
The Paradox of Up-Creation
Surprising Continuity of Ancient Technologies
The Evolutionary Mind of God
The Evidence of Progress
Technology, The Movie
Will Spiritual Robots Replace Humanity by 2100?
Civilizations Are Creatures
Speculations on the Future of Science
The Myth of Leapfrogging
The Rise and Fall of the Copy
Symmetrical and Asymmetrical Technologies
From Slumber to the Fires of Computation
The Forever Book
The Speed of Information
Atom Versus Net
The Computational Metaphor
The Singularity Is Always Near
The Paradoxical Nature of Technology
Immortal Technologies
Identity From What-is-Not
The Futility of Prohibition
The Seventh Kingdom
Speculations on the Change of Change
Major Transitions in Technology
Major Transitions in Biology
On the option of being anonymous
Recent Innovations in the Method
Evolution of the Scientific Method
The Name of What We Do
Only One Machine
When Answers Are Cheap
Brains of White Matter
The Number of Species We Use
What Will Big Brains Do?
Cosmic Origins of Extropy
Inventing Our Humanity
My Search for the Meaning of Tech
Hearing from @nealstephenson what he and team have in mind for a metaverse is the most detailed info I've seen so far of how crypto might be pragmatically useful, at least in games. https://t.co/NXtmawDpiL— Kevin Kelly (@kevin2kelly) June 18, 2022
Hearing from @nealstephenson what he and team have in mind for a metaverse is the most detailed info I've seen so far of how crypto might be pragmatically useful, at least in games. https://t.co/NXtmawDpiL
BookTok is a thing that is keeping book publishing going right now. Readers film themselves reading books with emotion or enthusiasm and share on TikTok. https://t.co/9qKRHM8piF— Kevin Kelly (@kevin2kelly) June 21, 2022
BookTok is a thing that is keeping book publishing going right now. Readers film themselves reading books with emotion or enthusiasm and share on TikTok. https://t.co/9qKRHM8piF
This astounding deep dive into Chinese character nerddom is well worth anyone's time. The piece keeps getting bigger. https://t.co/WH4uG8ALi0— Kevin Kelly (@kevin2kelly) June 23, 2022
This astounding deep dive into Chinese character nerddom is well worth anyone's time. The piece keeps getting bigger. https://t.co/WH4uG8ALi0
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