This Week In Extreme Science & Technology
Each week we bring you the very best, most important and/or amusing links reflecting technological and scientific acceleration
By Faustin Bray, Terence McKenna & R.U. Sirius,
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Sep 28, 2012
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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By Malcolm McCluhan,
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Sep 25, 2012
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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By Valkyrie Ice,
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Sep 23, 2012
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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By R.U. Sirius,
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Sep 21, 2012
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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By Valkyrie Ice,
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Sep 18, 2012
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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By Valkyrie Ice,
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Sep 16, 2012
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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