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Your Friday MONDO: William S. Burroughs in High Frontiers 1987 About Mind Technologies (MONDO 2000 History Project Entry #31)

""){ ?> By Faustin Bray, Terence McKenna & R.U. Sirius, posted on September 28, 2012

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  In 1987, Faustin Bray conducted an interview with William S. Burroughs by phone, mostly using questions suggested by Terence McKenna and R.U. Sirius.  Below is the opening exchange, about mind technologies. HIGH FRONTIERS: What do you think is the direction of mind technologies in terms of drugs and surgical implants, external technologies and techniques?  […]

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Caricatures Of The Satirists: A Review Of “Rapture Of The Nerds” By Cory Doctorow & Charlie Stross

""){ ?> By Malcolm McCluhan, posted on September 25, 2012

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I’m not a singularitarian, but I am a transhumanist which is close enough for… well, probably for Charlie Stross, who, on occasion, seems to rise up to smite the (defunct) extropians on his blog.  But more than anything else, I’m a man who loves satire.  Satire… ridicule… mockery.  Humans  incite it; every last one of […]

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The Radicalness Of 3d Printing

""){ ?> By Valkyrie Ice, posted on September 23, 2012

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Way back in February of 2011, I wrote an extensive article for H+ on 3D printing and how it would allow a transition between an economy based on material “value” and scarcity to one based on nonmaterial “value” and abundance. Also, in a later article published here, I expanded on why this is inevitable and […]

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Use Your Hallucinations: MONDO 2000 In Late 20th Century Cyberculture (Preface) (MONDO 2000 History Project Entry #30)

""){ ?> By R.U. Sirius, posted on September 21, 2012

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Here then, for your Friday MONDO, is the preface for the book in progress, Use Your Hallucinations:  MONDO 2000 in the Late 20th Century Cyberculture;    Listen up, youngsters, and citizens of any territory located anywhere within reach of normalcy, and I’ll tell you a story that’ll blow your little minds. Way back in time; as the […]

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Cellulose Nanocrystals: Imagine Skyscrapers Able To Shrug Off The Worst Earthquakes

""){ ?> By Valkyrie Ice, posted on September 18, 2012

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Early this year I wrote an article about where I saw the future heading.  I suggested that one major change in our present reality would be the moving away from the use of “bulk” materials and towards materials that were cheap, plentiful, and had properties far superior to the majority of materials used for making […]

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Nanorelays: Moving Back To Move Forward

""){ ?> By Valkyrie Ice, posted on September 16, 2012

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A while back I wrote an article for H+ on the five most common errors I saw being made in many future predictions, one of which I called linearism, i.e. the assumption that any given technological development requires a linear path to development, proceeding from step A to step B to step C and so […]

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An Interview With God (MONDO 2000 History Project Entry #29)

""){ ?> By Adam Cadmon, posted on September 14, 2012

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NEWS ITEM:   “Ms. Rosalie Blue, a candy store owner in Petaluma, California, is fighting to prevent her two children from being made wards of the court. Ms. Blue claims that she is God.” Intrigued by this article, I resolved that the next time I found myself in the vicinity of Petaluma, I would take along […]

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Greatest Hits Of The New Age From High Frontiers Issue #2, 1985 (MONDO 2000 History Project Entry #28)

""){ ?> By Somerset Mau Mau, posted on September 11, 2012

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strange things goin’ on, down in peru / people flyin’ through the sky / they might come down in a year or two  / then we all shall know the reason why . . .   from “everybody’s movin’ to the andes”  somerset mau mau, live larynx album         just what the hell is going on, anyway? what gives, […]

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Brion Gysin’s Dream Machine: Build Your Own Portal to Inner Visions

""){ ?> By Jason Louv, posted on September 9, 2012

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photo by Charles Gatewood The Dream Machine is a device for altering the brainwave frequency of the user and putting it into an alpha state, at which point it begins generating waking, sober hallucinations and internal “movies,” on demand. The machine is simple: it’s a rotating cylinder with slats in the sides and a light […]

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Excerpts From High Frontiers Issue #2 Interview with Robert Anton Wilson, 1985 – MONDO 2000 History Project Entry #27

""){ ?> By R.U. Sirius, posted on September 7, 2012

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Charles Faris went to interview Robert Anton Wilson for the second issue of High Frontiers.  He was the first among us to meet Bob.  Here, excerpted from the rough draft in progress of Use Your Hallucinations: MONDO 2000 in the Late 20th Century Cyberculture, are a few brief comments on that event, first from myself […]

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