Scribe Mo

Robotic Quintet Composes and plays its own music. Pretty cool.

Reminds me of 70s and 80s sci-fi for some reason…

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AI

blingostarr:

spiswatchingyou:

i-steal-your-pantsu:

videohall:

Wow that’s amazing, I thought it was fake after seeing them draw on the paper. That alone is ingenious.

what the hell

oh my gOD

i was already dead at the dance dance revolution part

thaaat’s pretty cool

HOLY POOP

Wows.

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masta-spliffa:

Waking Life in it’s entirety.

“Creation seems to come out of imperfection. It seems to come out of a striving and a frustration. This is where, I think, language came from. I mean, it came from our desire to transcend our isolation and have some sort of connection with one another. It had to be easy when it was just simple survival. “Water.” We came up with a sound for that. “Sabretooth tiger behind you!” We came up with a sound for that. But when it gets really interesting, I think is when we use that same system of symbols to communicate all the abstract and intangible things that we’re experiencing. What is “frustration”? Or what is “anger” or “love”? When I say “love” the sound comes out of my mouth and it hits the other person’s ear, travels through this byzantine conduit in their brain through their memories of love or lack of love. And they register what I’m saying and they say yes they understand, but how do I know? Because words are inert. They’re just symbols. They’re dead. You know? And so much of our experience is intangible. So much of what we perceive cannot be expressed. It’s unspeakable. And yet, you know, when we communicate with one another and we feel that we have connected and we think we’re understood I think we have a feeling of almost spiritual communion. And that feeling may be transient, but I think it’s what we live for.”

Love this movie.

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stayingunderground:

Immortal Technique answers questions (2012)

TIS catches up with rapper & activist Immortal Technique as he talks about humans being distracted, the killing of Trayvon Martin, Kony 2012, an end of the world scenario, aliens, and digs deep into the Illuminati. Plus more!

I need to talk to Technique some day in person. I have some idea’s i want to share with him.

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Minority Report-style gesture based computer control.

$70 for psychedelic and intuitive control of my computer?

I want one.

Source: http://singularityhub.com/2012/05/22/leap-3d-offers-amazing-gesture-based-control-of-your-computer-for-just-70/

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This channel shows international versions (in English or with English subtitles) of programmes produced by Dutch national public broadcasting corporation VPRO.

stayingunderground:

Je t’aime Montréal!

Hell ya!

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3D printing, and other rapid prototyping technologies combined with intelligent software are described by Paul Markillie of the Economist as drivers of a third industrial revolution. Jeremy Rifkin also uses the term and both writers point to the new rise of decentralized, global and individualized manufacturing and economic systems now coming on stream. Rifkin’s The Third Industrial Revolution explores how Internet technology and renewable energy are merging factors in the future too.

Everything in the factories of the future will be run by intelligent software systems. Digitisation in manufacturing will have a disruptive effect every bit as big as in other industries that have gone digital, such as office equipment, telecommunications, photography, music, publishing and films.

The effects will not be confined to large manufacturers; they will need to watch out because much of what is coming will empower small and medium-sized firms and individual entrepreneurs. Launching novel products will become easier and cheaper. Communities offering 3D printing and other production services that are a bit like Facebook are already forming online—a new phenomenon which Markillie calls social manufacturing.

As manufacturing goes digital, a third great change is now gathering pace. It will allow things to be made economically in much smaller numbers, more flexibly and with a much lower input of labour, thanks to new materials, completely new processes such as 3D printing, easy-to-use robots and new collaborative manufacturing services available online. The wheel is almost coming full circle, turning away from mass manufacturing and towards much more individualised production. And that in turn could bring some of the jobs back to rich countries that long ago lost them to the developing nations.

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33rd Square | The Third Industrial Revolution (via myserendipities)

Capitalism brought globalization. Capitalism will be brought down by globalization.

There are some things the article would do well to include: the spread of open-source programming (particularly in robots/AI and intellectual production/property rights), the exponential growth of technological change (Singularity), the disruptive and decentralizing effects of spreading solar-power to small and medium-size producers (see: Germany). I’d like to outline two others below.

Food will be a very important component in the coming revolutionary changes to sweep our world. Organic and decentralized (self-producing) farming will make much more sense in this future (especially taking into account peak-oil and economic disturbances brought on by this new industrial revolution).

Food is unarguably the most important function of the economy: human beings need to eat and the current system is failing the billion+ who starve and suffer from a lack of access to food.

Another key ingredient to the changing system is politics: decentralization of power with capitalism brought down oligarchs. The new trend seems poised to offer a more effective and transparent mode of governing.

Big changes are coming, seems that Marx and Engles were not only correct in predicting globalization, capitalism will subsume to a new system: consumer will become its own producer and capitalism, as we know it, will become redundant.

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