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The Need For a Body

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Robots Will Make Us Better Humans

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Non-Assigned Names

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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 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

Reasons to Tour By Bicycle

103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known

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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

Embracing the Improbable

The Irresistible Future

The Thinkism Fallacy

Still Out of Control

The Water and Oil Planet

The Bigger, Better Boom

Pets, Aliens, Spirits, and Slaves

Class 1 / Class 2 Problems

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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

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Cyberweapons: A Real Worry

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Arrival of the Babel Fish

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Progress and the Randomized Time Machine

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Asian Innovation

The Super-Power of Reading

The Underpopulation Bomb

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Virtual Live-Action in a Virtually Real Film

Recent readings

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

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

The Average Place on Earth

Myth of the Lone Villain

Sourced Quotes, 15

Robot, Child of God

The Rule of Transformation

User Pre-Funding

Sourced Quotes, 14

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

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

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

Your Two Things

Cities Are Immortal; Companies Die

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

Producing an International Kindle Version

Makers on Parade

Tech Shopping Rules of Thumb

Who’s Your City

Jesus and Divine Evolution

Techno Life Skills

Would You Pay For Search?

The Library of Utility

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

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

Rehearsing for Mars in a Container

Travel Without Baggage

Feature, Product, Company

The Information

Your Attention is Cheap: $2.50/per Hour

Found Quotes, 4

The Amount of Information in the World

In Praise of the Segway

Computational X

The Stars of 1,000 True Fans

Incorruptible Technologies

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

Prophesies of McLuhan

Possibilians vs Agnostics

Speaking of the Technium

Forums & Discussions

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

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

Making Organic Structure Visible

DYI Garage Biotech

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Evolution of Bots

Notable Blogs/List of Lists

A New Kind of Mind

Breakup of the USA

Welcome to the Anthropocene

Whole Earth Video

Technology, a Geological Force

If Your Website Were a Person

What Comes After Minds?

Earning Money From the Free

The Used Future

The Next 1000 Years of Christianity

The Missing Near Future

Who Should We Be?

Anachronistic Science

The Pro-Actionary Principle

Recursive Generation

The Origins of Progress

The Ninth Transition of Evolution

Evidence of a Global SuperOrganism

New Kind of Truth

Long Clock, Big Gear

The Expansion of Ignorance

Narrow Gates of Inevitability

Where Attention Flows, Money Follows

Are We Duped By the Technium?

Looking For Ugly

The Whole Earth Blogalog

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

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

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

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

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

Junkyard Sports

Astounding Animated Wall Mural

Simultaneous Invention

The Cell Phone Platform

Total Personlization Needs Total Transparency

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

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

Results from an Experiment in Ad-Driven Books

Testing the Veracity of the Internet

Material Fingerprints

A Web Page For Every Species

HyperReal Homer

Consensus on Colors

Humanity’s Identity Crises

The (Unspeakable) Ultimate Machine

Tools for Big Love

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

Subterranean Tutoring

The Bottom is Not Enough

An Eternal Last Goodbye

Defining Waterboarding

Visual Music Instruments

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

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

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

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

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

New Kind of Truth

Wikipedia: Where consistent opinions are correct opinions.

[Ooops. I inadvertently published this entry before I was finished. I’ll return to this later.]

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