Archive for October, 2008

AI Governments

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Maybe instead of forming or being formed as legal corporations, the artificial intelligences of the future will be legal governments, with sovereign territories and powers…

formation, microintelligences, microunions

F#! Wealth Re-Distribution

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Aren’t people harping on that statement still in the media? I heard that on the news or somthin. I think we’re going to have bigger fish to fry/this would be an easy way to pull over wealth re-distribution: forced population re-distribution, because of natural, ecological or other factors. Then you just take their land and […]

Re-Tribalisation of Media

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

I think posneg may have warped one of my zones with their connecting the dots between some of the writing I’ve been doing and other big hot social trends right now that everyone is talking about…
“Individual private communities™ have expanded and cross-linked enough to become Independent Trade Zones™. Development of policies designed to protect these […]

I’m sorry

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

There’s just no simpler more direct way for me to describe what I’m trying to describe. It has something to do with technology in the future which I can almost envision, but every time I try to describe it, my mind tangents off into infinity and I have to reboot midstream. Anyway, I thought this […]

Essential Time Traveler ‘Ur Future’ Cards

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Pronounced “yr future”… You take a standard Tarot Deck, and you flip em over so that the backs are showing. They you wright vague statements about sort of the fleeting invisible quality of time, its essence. Things like “Stay focused, and it will happen soon.” I tried to keep most of them pretty positive like […]

Information Crystals Forming

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Information icicles, stalactites, stalagmites, crystals forming and growing on information which creates a sedimentary web browsing experience.

Free Kontera Business Tip

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Decay rates. Think of it like that: an ad appears within a text by a word being highlighted in some way, as the user lingers on that page or within that space, the presence of that initial ad decays as others appear and decay. Kind of a shimmery sort of effervescence of information crusting around […]

International Localism

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

That’s my new catch-all term for what’s going on right now. John Robb is writing a lot about cascading events in chaotic systems. Seems like his resilient community concept is an attempt to stabilize chaotic systems engulfed in cascading events, by introducing these hard little self-sustaining kernels of human beings simply surviving™. Resilient communities become […]

Will They See Us As Liberators?

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

this shit makes my skin crawl

Serious For-Real Business Idea

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Cut me off a slice if you do this, but I think this idea may be ready for a prime-time web application. I’ll try to say this straight-forward first and then elaborate on it poetically.
Take an individual post-page of my website, driven by WordPress. Once the page is loaded into the browser, the content […]