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A documentary on networks in Sarantaporo area produced by the media arts collective Personal Cinema.

Check out the future of mass transportation. You'll never want to take your boring old car to work again!

Special thanks to "know thetruth" for sharing this information! Prophets Among Us: https://youtu.be/_ut7DN5N17E

As coworking explodes in popularity, its parallel movement, co-living, is being touted as the next disruption of surplus space. At its essence, co-living offers shared living space and amenities, more housemates than the typical roommate situation, access to a network of properties, and flexible lease options that allow long and short-term residents to live side by side.

A Shocking NBC News Report Says The Elite Are Preparing To Chip Everyone, Starting With Our Children Would you allow microchips to be surgically i

Douglas Rushkoff is the author of "Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus." In his PDF 2016 talk, Rushkoff explains why we shouldn't change ourselves t

THE FRIDAY AFTERNOON news dump, a grand tradition observed by politicians and capitalists alike, is usually supposed to hide bad news. So it was a little weird that Elon Musk, founder of electric car maker Tesla, and Sam Altman, president of famed tech incubator Y Combinator, unveiled their new artificial intelligence company at the tail end of a weeklong AI conference in Montreal this past December.

‘The basic reaction of the human mind to pleasure and to achievement is not satisfaction; it’s the craving for more.’

structural challenges to technological emancipation: socially necessary discipline The interplay between discipline and freedom, how the former generates the latter and the latter requires the form…

A 10-year-long megaproject will go beyond quantum computing and cryptography to advance other emerging technologies

Henning Meyer discusses the ways in which technological progress actually translates into real life.

A few times a year, we round up the top new books about cities, sharing, collaboration, social tech, movement trends and more. Here are 21 books worth checking out for Shareable summer reading.

Since the first browser was created by Sir Tim Berners-Lee over 25 years ago, the World Wide Web has grown to become a massive ecosystem of information that has democratized access to knowledge and culture on the Internet. But today, the Web is under threat.

The Library of Things movement is emerging in communities around the world. These spaces give people access to a huge spectrum of items, from board games, party supplies and tennis rackets to saws, kitchen appliances, turntables, clothing and tents, without the burden of ownership.

Recent Intel x86 processors implement a secret, powerful control mechanism that runs on a separate chip that no one is allowed to audit or examine. When these are eventually compromised, they’…

A growing movement that combines open source design with sustainability is creating an exciting alternative to profit-driven, proprietary sustainability products. As we face urgent issues like climate change, the ability of open source communities to quickly and inexpensively create solutions makes increasing sense.

What if we could grow delicious, nutrient-dense food, indoors anywhere in the world? Caleb Harper, director of the Open Agriculture Initiative at the MIT Media Lab, wants to change the food system by connecting growers with technology. Get to know Harper's "food computers" and catch a glimpse of what the future of farming might look like.