Tag: culture

23 Sep

The Post-Digital Lifestyle

The “post digital” generation refers to the growing few that have already been digital, and are now more interested in Being Human.

26 Jun

“Shapeshifting” Architecture from Dubai

“It’s not a piece of architecture somebody designed today and that’s it. It remains forever. It’s designed by life, shaped by time.”

14 Jun

UK Television Media Bans Product Placement

“There! In the Ford F-150!”

09 Apr

Of Scale & Civilization

An article in the Providence Journal discusses the fact that fireflies are facing a mass extinction as a result of our “signals”[…]

18 Mar

Farewell, Clarke

[Clarke’s] characters, flawed and often unaware of the significance of their actions, confronted awe-inspiring and immeasurable ethical, spiritual, and moral challenges with ingenuity, maturity, and of course, incredible new technologies[…]

11 Mar

“Part of our role is to wake up the world.”

Two hundred leaders from seventy-one North American indigenous tribes convened on Monday to discuss rising concerns over global warming, environmental destruction, and the role of humanity as planetary shepherds.

02 Mar

A Life Lived Richly

The great and terrible secret of our culture–indeed, of the world–is that our financial and social rewards are directly proportional to the percentage of our lives that we “hand over”.

What am I going to do? I’m going to be alive; to dream and explore and experience as much as possible. Is that not good enough? Is that not a life lived richly?

14 Jan

“Macbook Air”– And What It (Maybe) Means

I really must be a nerd, somehow, or one who’s really just affected by design in some (possibly-twisted) way, but…

(Images from Wired Blog: this is a mockup (not a photo) of an envisioned ultra-thin Apple laptop featuring wireless charging, a multi-touch input system, and an always-on, ubiquitous wireless connection that replaces the need for ethernet […]

28 Jul

Letting the Universe Live Through You

though we have learned to compartmentalize our senses, to change our focus, to filter reality through a lifetime of emotion and experience, we forget that the universe is still out there, barking at the gates, brash and inconquerable, refusing to be diminished.