Posts Tagged ‘2012’
Entangled

Time is not what it seems…
When a drug overdose causes Leoni, a troubled teen from twenty-first-century Los Angeles, to have a near-death experience, her soul is lifted from the modern world and flung into a parallel time 24,000 years in the past. There her fate becomes entangled with that of Ria,...
April 8th, 2010 | Arts | Read More
THE MACHINE STOPS

Anybody who uses the Internet should read E.M. Forster’s The Machine Stops. It is a chilling, short story masterpiece about the role of technology in our lives. Written in 1909, it’s as relevant today as the day it was published. Forster has several prescient notions including instant messages...
March 22nd, 2010 | Arts | Read More
BREAKPOINT: terrorists vs. transhumanists

Former counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke’s BREAKPOINT novel, set in the year 2012, is based on emerging technologies. “Globegrid,” a high-speed global network, links supercomputers worldwide. Combined with advanced AI software, it promises to reverse-engineer the brain, revolutionize...
February 17th, 2010 | Big Ideas | Read More
An Ethnography of Conspiracy Theories

Damien DeBarra is a regular blogger at www.blather.net
[http://www.blather.net/index.htm]. DeBarra is also student at the
University of Edinburgh on the Msc. in e-learning course, currently
doing the ‘Digital Cultures’ semester [http://digitalculture-ed.net/]
.For this course he was asked to conduct...
December 10th, 2009 | Social Insight | Read More
Dannion Brinkley – Prophet or Profiteer?

In 1975, during a thunderstorm, Dannion Brinkley was talking on the telephone when a bolt of lightning hit the phone line, sending thousands of volts into his head and down through his body. Brinkley was thrown across the room, and later reported seeing his lifeless body spread prone, as his then-girlfriend...
December 10th, 2009 | Altered States | Read More
2012 & Human Destiny

THE END OF THE WORLD OR CONSCIOUSNESS REVOLUTION? Instead of predicting a physical destruction of the material world, the Mayan prophecy might refer to death and rebirth and a mass inner transformation of humanity. In order to explore this idea, we have to answer two important questions, First, how...
December 2nd, 2009 | Big Ideas | Read More
Psi-verts and psychic piracy: The future of parapsychology?

I woke up this morning with a psychic advert left lingering in my dreaming mind. It was some kind of oneiric flyer for a new type of yoga, it even had a telephone number on it to call. This fanciful hypnopompic intrusion brought me back to the idea that if science can identify techniques for reliably...
October 28th, 2009 | Extended Mind | Read More