body, Leave

Dusk on the Playa




Image by jurvetson

I experimented with a mid-length exposure here, as it was a blend of day and night shots.

OK, ok, enough about rockets.

I need to head out and try to think like a techonomist.

When we consider the combinatorial explosion of possibly interacting ideas as the fountainhead of innovation, it not only creates the economy and explains accelerating change, it also subsumes biological evolution (raising the primary vector of progress to a higher level of abstraction) and nurtures a rational optimism for the future.

(blending Adam Smith, Matt Ridley, Richard Dawkins, Ray Kurzweil & Brian Arthur)


And stitched together by some fine dinner conversation with Matt Ridley (just before his TED Talk):

“Self-sufficient is another way of saying impoverished.”

“Innovation = ideas having sex.”

“There is literally nobody on the planet who knows how to make a computer mouse.”

How to leave your body

( Karolinska Institutet ) Leave your body and shake hands with yourself, gain an extra limb or change into a robot for a while. Swedish neuroscientist Henrik Ehrsson has demonstrated that the brain's image of the body is negotiable. Applications stretch from touch-sensitive prostheses to robotics and virtual worlds.

Read more on EurekAlert!















'I never had sex with her'

Beseiged player manager Ricky Nixon airs his side of the story. But who's telling the truth?

Read more on The Age






Similar posts to:

body:

A Bull of a Man: Images of Masculinity, Sex, and the Body in Indian Buddhism ...
S/he: Changing Sex and Changing Clothes (Dress, Body & Culture) Reviews ...
Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud ...
Jennifer’s Body ...
Mohombi – Sex Your Body (Prod. by RedOne) [NEW HOT RNB MUSIC 2010] ...
Leave:

How To Get Your Roommate To Leave So You Can Have Sex ...