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grinding.be : The Year of the Drone, the "Anternet", the brain's networking and Autism.

Sun, 16 Sep 2012 08:06:08 +0000

Thank you!

grinding.be : Mass Effect 3 copies tied to weather balloons and sent aloft

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 01:34:59 +0000

Not sure which part was the joke, Ted... but all comments are always welcome here. No idea why comments got disabled on that post, but that's been rectified; pretty sure our commenting system is haunted.

grinding.be : Time travellin' with Werner Herzog

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:00:34 +0000

Thanks Ted! Glad you agree. Yes to Bruce Sterling, no to Bill Gates thanks ;0

grinding.be : Bruce Sterling @ Symposium Playful Post Digital Culture

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 13:53:10 +0000

Bah! They've pulled them all from their Vimeo channel. I'll keep an eye out for their eventual reappearance.

grinding.be : Inside Job (How they stole your future)

Sat, 28 May 2011 09:12:40 +0000

Finally, you can 'buy' it on iTunes here: http://www.apple.com/itunes/charts/movies/inside-... and elsewhere I'm sure.

grinding.be : Inside Job (How they stole your future)

Sat, 28 May 2011 09:08:51 +0000

Before you can solve a problem you must clearly describe it. This is what the documentary does. As you say, it's well-made. One can deduce that the first step in such a solution is to separate Government and Business. Identify problem area, fix, re-start, observe, repeat.

grinding.be : Inside Job (How they stole your future)

Sat, 28 May 2011 08:59:15 +0000

now this clip is actually put on YouTube by SonyPictureClassics http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKHKfcT9pCI

grinding.be : Inside Job (How they stole your future)

Sat, 28 May 2011 08:24:35 +0000

Here's another link to it on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFfTcAcGjcU and a key scene on Vimeo (How They corrupted the study of Economics): http://vimeo.com/20170617

grinding.be : thoughts on the Transcendent Man

Fri, 8 Apr 2011 09:52:16 +0000

I will check out Technocalyps too, thanks for bring it my attention. re: AI - Ray explicitly says he hopes to resurrect his dead father using this tech AND that humanity will co-evolve with tiny machines inside them AND that GodLike AIs will appear. I have always been a proponent of the continued co-evolution of man and the tools he creates, it's where GodLike AIs will have Human Concerns that I am explicitly challenging. re: biological evolution - what I'm saying is that current genetic research seems to indicate that it's very far from static. Also, afaik, they've yet to explain the Flynn Effect. Add to this the fact that syllogistic reasoning is the direct product of literacy (of the word) & I think it's reasonable to infer that without adding machines to the body another Mental Advance may soon (or perhaps already has?) result from this new Literacy (of the Computer/SocialNetwork/Google sphere) - a new mental module installed into humanity, if you will.

grinding.be : Bruce Sterling's SXSW speech - excerpt 1

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 14:50:34 +0000

Ah! Thanks

grinding.be : "It's not a war, it's a rescue mission" Part 3

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 08:33:19 +0000

I agree, just started re-watching that too after writing this.

grinding.be : "It's not a war, it's a rescue mission" Part 2

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 16:27:59 +0000

Thank you for your kind words and support Randy. I must admit I am curious as to which details you found inconsistent with my thesis, if you wouldn't mind elaborating either here or via email.

grinding.be : "It's not a war, it's a rescue mission" Part 3

Fri, 11 Mar 2011 09:09:11 +0000

I have some ideas..

grinding.be : "It's not a war, it's a rescue mission" Part 3

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 07:19:03 +0000

Glad you liked it :) Appreciate you reading it close enough to spot all those typos too ;)

grinding.be : "It's not a war, it's a rescue mission" Part 3

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 04:35:23 +0000

Thank you @Rabbitz!!!

grinding.be : Jane McGonigal on the Colbert Report

Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:08:14 +0000

Damn. Doesn't seem to be available anywhere else either.

grinding.be : The Skin Gun That Sprays New Skin on Burn Victims Is Real

Fri, 4 Feb 2011 15:24:25 +0000

Thanks Spiral!

grinding.be : The Skin Gun That Sprays New Skin on Burn Victims Is Real

Thu, 3 Feb 2011 04:45:56 +0000

Blocked in Australia too. Bah!

grinding.be : Obligatory Wikileaks Post

Tue, 21 Dec 2010 01:13:53 +0000

The weirdest thing for me has been watching the News media report on this, about this and yet be unchanged by it. They've been our trusted conduit, revealed now to be the propagator of mis-information. How can they report the retrospective Truth as now revealed by the Wikileaks, then go back to passing on corporate statements and government PR unchecked? It does not compute.

grinding.be : CNN Video interview with Wafaa Bila, of the Third I project

Tue, 7 Dec 2010 07:39:43 +0000

Sure