The future of media

Don Giulio Prisco writes
Blue Mars is certainly a good step toward highly videorealistic VR worlds. Cobalt is interesting, but I don’t have the impression that it is heading toward becoming one of the really big players. My impression is that popular VR worlds will be available in the browser and on TV, without needing a [...]

Sod of with your dancing bullshit

This article is written in response to this article.
I don’t like the world as it is. You see, I am a restless soul. These days (especially in winter times) so many things piss me off, it is beyond words. I can’t understand why people accept all this crap, day in, day out. Things like advertising. [...]

The Uncanny Valley of H+

For those who aren’t very aware of the whole transhumanism business, or “Extropy” or “H+”, or the “singularity” for that matter – in short, the idea suggests that in a few decades we’ll have technologies piling on technologies (in a way like electricity piled on the industrial revolution, and electronics piled on the electrical revolution, [...]

How Linden Lab can carve out a new and very big market

Let’s start with a very odd statement. I’d like to dedicate this article to house. (trust me, he’ll laugh his ass off).
Ok. Having said that – the very moment I saw this site and presentation by Mitch Kapor, it dawned on me, damn we have a potential winner here. If this catches on, remember [...]

Ich Bin Ein Neo-Eugeneticist

The following article deals with topics that are subject to significant prejudice, kneejerk reaction, phobia and superstition. So read it closely before you go on a rant.
Let’s draw a line in the sand – on one iside wrong, and on the other side right. Let’s not get too deeply into utilitarianism or morality – [...]

Misattributing cause and effect, all too human

I stumbled across this particular highly indicative article on Second Life, and I just had to blog about it; Link. It is yet another example of the severe shortsightedness and misattributions some people have regarding the emergence of new media.
I am the mother of a 26 year old young man. He moved away from [...]

Finally, “educated discussion”

Am I a transhumanist?  That is not entirely sure.  If it were possible  (and I think it will be) to improve the human body in order to…
(1) acceptable individual and societal misery
(2) make improving individual bodies affordable to a significant number of people
(3) in a manner than has acceptable side effects
than yah, I am a [...]

Putting Second Life in Perspective

Disclaimer: the trivial fact that I level some harsh criticism against the U.S. should not detract anyone reading this from looking at my suggestions about Second Life. If you can’t handle such heresy please do not continue: go do something else. Yes I am a virulent critic of the US, yes I do not live [...]

Google and The Red Queen – An Essay By Extropia DaSilva

“Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place”-Lewis Carrol.
INTRODUCTION.
This essay, which is all about the evolution of search engines, begins (peculiarly enough) with the extraordinarily toxic rough-skinned newt, which can be found in the Pacific Northwest. Of all the things you might be tempted to [...]

The Insurrection Window is Closing – Exludism will win.

I have this personal theory. I don’t know if anyone out there has had the same idea. In short it is the idea that unionization, wellare, labour unions, minimal wages, etc – all those traditionally leftist things are good for society, and are a part of the free market.
In other words – supply and demand. [...]