This year seems particularly conducive to optimism: with the election of Obama, the global economic avalanche, and (on a more personal note) my graduation from college, the future is anything but certain. With all that ambiguity comes a special kind of potential: anything can happen now. These are magical moments.
The “post digital” generation refers to the growing few that have already been digital, and are now more interested in Being Human.
Axel Peemoeller’s carpark signs are distorted to make them unbelievably readable– as long as you’re in the right place.
You can choose to move forward towards your goals, or you can choose to have the same day over and over again until you die. Which do you choose?
An article in the Providence Journal discusses the fact that fireflies are facing a mass extinction as a result of our “signals”[…]
[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[…]
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?
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.
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