This will be the last post from this account . . . .  Here is what happened as reported by Transhumanity.net with in-line additions by the survivors . . . .  (Provo, Utah) It appears that, in

We have reached a point in the early 21st Century at which media cannot be assumed to directly represent reality.  This is both true in the general and older sense that we may distrust  any

 Metric Media recently published an article called “Burning Houses  & Gaming the Future”, which explored the utility of game logic in  helping people achieve real goals in our increasingly

Grid Scale Energy Storage  So far in Autognosis: Cities we’ve  discussed how growth curves of cities could be brought into alignment  with other life forms, how a city could be fitted with

Sustainable Design  In the last installment of ‘Autognosis: Cities’  we discussed a theory of matching the growth curve of a city with that of an organism. In this installment, I would like to

Back in the distant, hazy days of 1998, Futurist Douglas Rushkoff published a book called “Playing the Future” (published in the UK as “Children of Chaos”). The book’s central thesis was that people born

 Debate over the risk and promise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and  other technologies can be depressingly simplistic, often polarised into  two camps with views that are extreme to the

 ’Cities are the Crucible of civilization’. So said Geoffrey West, a professor studying the General Scaling Phenomenon of the natural habitat of the modern human – cities. Geoffrey  has spent

 No Such Thing As A Free Meal  There are always strings attached, they say. Perhaps this is nowhere  more true than in the human mind, which believes itself to be in charge  of its

Animation, either of text elements or of logos, icons, and other visual devices, should be used always. Wherever possible. Our competitors here are not so much web designs as they are videogame consoles.