mindlace

Fairly recently, we’ve figured out that humans, some cetatians and a few other species have what are called “mirror neruons”. Mirror neurons are fairly simple in concept, but fairly significant in impact. Our mirror neurons fire when we see someone else perform an act, and they fire identically when we perform that act.
On edge.org, one of […]

So we can now detect when someone is paying attention. In the future there will be head-band like devices that people will wear that record when and where they’re paying attention, and the market in which attention-events are bought and sold will form the basis of the global economy.

The solstice is upon us, and in discussing it with some folks online I realized people have a fairly fuzzy concept as to what it actually is. As someone who has come to feel that reflecting upon the cycles of nature is somewhere between important and holy, I’ve given the matter much thought.
Many ancient peoples thought […]

I’ve been much remiss in updating this here little blog, and hopefully I will give it more attention soon. Via WorldChanging I heard of this lovely table that eats leftovers; this sort of thing makes me want to stay on the bio side of the fence.
One of the debates that’s been consuming me for a while […]

So today I discover that, not only have I received a low winning bid on my auction of my old G5, but my PayPal account access was limited, because “We have observed activity in this account that is unusual or potentially high risk.” Initially, PayPal asked me to confirm my address and SSN, called me […]

Here’s a happy little meme-worm that’s grown fat enough in my own head, so I thought I’d let it burrow in your brain for a change. By nature I’m not fond of doomsday predictions, but the fossil record and history has taught me that just because life survives doesn’t mean you or yours will.
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I had talked at the Nebraska Digital Workshop about a paper suggesting it was better to wait to try to solve some problems until computers got faster. The paper, as it turns out, is “The Effects of Moore’s Law and Slacking on Large Computations”. I hope that you find this information helpful in your efforts […]