Thursday, December 18, 2008

Scientists extract images directly from brain


found on DoseNation


Is the future awesome or what?

"Researchers from Japan’s ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories have developed new brain analysis technology that can reconstruct the images inside a person’s mind and display them on a computer monitor, it was announced on December 11. According to the researchers, further development of the technology may soon make it possible to view other people’s dreams while they sleep.
Thanks to Emu for the tip!"

NOTE: The Pink Tentacle post on this has been suspended due to bandwidth drain. Check out the story at Boing Boing.

LINK : www.pinktentacle.com

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

The World Game


ANOTHER GREAT BRAINSTURBATOR ARTICLE:


"Bucky Fuller & his World Game: Intro to Saving Planets"

From the introduction to a World Game activity book:
“Now, for the first time in the history of man, all the political theories and all the concepts of political functions are completely obsolete. All of them were developed on the you-or-me basis. This whole realization that mankind can and may be comprehensively successful is startling.”

By comprehensively successful, R. Buckminster Fuller meant that every human being could live in abundance. This idea gets dismissed even today as Utopian bullshit, but I’d like to frame this with a few short, simple questions:

1. Can the quality of life on Earth be improved?

2. Will everyone benefit from those improvements?

3. Is that worth spending time on?

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