Archive for the ‘Tech’ Category
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Animated Transportation and Communication Networks Show Humanity’s Effect On Earth >>> Video
Co.Exist provides a glimpse at humankind’s impact on the earth in a powerful animated globe video and some scientific research to explain what you see: This tour of our glowing transportation and communication networks shows the majesty–and horror–of how mankind has altered the planet. According to scientists, we’re currently in the geological epoch known as theHolocene, which has lasted for the last 12,000 years. The Holocene encompasses the rise of humanity since the last ice age. But some scientists think we ...
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Seasteading >>> Government Free Cities In The Ocean Are Next Frontier For Human Civilization
I’m sure a lot of people have heard of seasteading already, but I hadn’t until today. Sometimes I get a bit disconnected from the world living on a farm, which ironically is the beauty of of this budding movement taking cities from land to sea where the next generation of pioneers can peacefully test new ideas for government free from government. The idea of these free floating cities is being spearheaded by The Seasteading Institute. To learn more about the possibilities, limitations, and ...
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Self Powered Wind Turbine Makes 1,000 Liters of Clean Water a Day in the Desert
Treehugger features a new technology being tested in water systems that could quite simply shatter barriers to accessing water. Think of the possibilites. Not only will off-grid back-to-the-landers have a more streamlined alternative to the common rainwater harvesting system, but more importantly, developing nations often faced with drought and no solid infrastructure to support it could easily provide clean drinking water in the middle of the most dryest regions. Mother nature would be pretty happy too knowing her remaining fresh ...
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Free The Network >>> Motherboard’s Documentary on Occupy Wall Street, Hacktivism, and the Hackers Trying to Build a Corporate and Government Free Internet
A new feature documentary from Motherboard TV was recently released called Free the Network, which focuses on just that, how young hacktivists from the Free Network Foundation stationed at the Occupy Wall Street camp in Zuccotti Park work to replace the corporate-controlled internet with a new, uncensorable, user-controlled network. Watch the full 30-minute documentary and read Motherboard’s full article on the film below. >>> You’re on the Internet. What does that mean? Most likely, it means one of a handful of telecommunications providers is middlemanning your ...
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William Gibson Talks to Motherboard About Internet and Technology
Brianna Pearce A self-proclaimed (now-ex?) luddite, I have just re-introduced internet access into my home after a 2 year hiatus. As I sit here (with no fewer than 7 internet windows open) contemplating this amazing interview with William Gibson, I am suddenly more at peace with my newfound connection than I have been in recent months. He has successfully eased my anxiety about the internet and technology-run-amok. In this video, Gibson calls the internet: “a species long project which we’re probably unable to ...
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Take a Walk In The Stars With Cosmic iPad Apps
Have you ever gazed at the night sky and wanted to know where the constellations are, or just wished you could jump in a rocket ship and fly through the cosmos? Now thanks to some brilliant iPad apps, you have the universe at your fingertips. You can scan the skies for Orion, take a 3D flight around the universe in real time, and spin Jupiter on your lap amongst many other stellar features in all the apps found below recently ...
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MintChip >>> Canadian Mint Seeks Digital Currency
Maybe the Royal Canadian Mint got a little too inspired to jump on the smart phone gold rush after hearing about the big Instagram sale to Facebook yesterday looking to cash in by converting all cash to digital. Think of the app they could design? With one press of a button…BOOM! You’ve paid for your coffee. Or maybe it is actually just a natural evolution of currency in the digital age. Or is this one step closer to a totalitarian ...
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Folding Electric Bike Offers a Path to Conscious Commuting
Is $2500 worth it to take your feet off your bicycles pedals and then fold it up and tuck it away when you arrive at your destination? If it means the congested city highways and roads will free up and our reliance on oil will diminish, then I say it’s definitely worth it. Especially when it is a bicycle that looks as good as the new folding electric bike by Conscious Commuter recently featured in an article from GOOD Magazine: >>> ...
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“I’m thinking of it as an investment in the future” >>> How A Modern Couple Lives Off Grid
This modern Canadian couple proves that contemporary comforts easily have a place in off-the-grid living right next to the wind turbine and clothing line. From The Chronicle Herald: CAM FARNELL doesn’t care about the rules of home ownership. It doesn’t matter to him if he built the most expensive house in his Upper Tantallon neighbourhood or that there’s a list of things about the house that would make a real estate agent blanch. “I’m not thinking of this house in ...
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Hearing Color With An Electronic Eye
From the BBC News >>> Artist Neil Harbisson is completely colour-blind. Here, he explains how a camera attached to his head allows him to hear colour. Until I was 11, I didn’t know I could only see in shades of grey. I thought I could see colours but that I was confusing them. When I was diagnosed with achromatopsia [a rare vision disorder], it was a bit of a shock but at least we knew what was wrong. Doctors said ...
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Anonymous ‘threatens’ to Take Down Facebook in Operation Global Blackout
Following a massive attack waged Thursday on several government and entertainment industry websites, hacktivists with Anonymous continued their assault over the weekend, momentarily taking CBS.com offline. >>> ORIGINAL POST >>> FLIP THE PYRAMID
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Godlike Digital Natives >>> On The Fast Track to Telewakening
ORIGINAL POST >>> ANTI-TEACHINGS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE The Internet and technology as they are today are giving us Godlike powers of perception and action: Digital Natives are the first generation of young adults to be endowed with them. Look at what these network-connected extra electric brains our parents got us are really doing here—the Power Macs, the smartphones, the tablets, which are connected to evermore relays and satellites, evermore detailed maps, evermore evolving encyclopedias are all upgrading our reach into ...