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The Ultra-Extreme Calorie Restriction Diet Test - Julian Dibbell kokeilee CR-ruokavaliota.

But first, I’m going to need a moment to deal with the slight attack of existential vertigo that’s hitting me just now. All evening, I have let the bubbling enthusiasm and essential reasonableness of my guests carry me past the little weirdnesses that go with being calorie-restricted. But the weirdnesses are starting to pile up, and my guests are looking weirder and weirder themselves, like emissaries from a future I’m not sure could ever feel like home: a world where the food grows in vats, where the porn industry just barely survives on government subsidies, where the physically ideal male has the BMI of Mary-Kate Olsen and the skin tones of an Oompa-Loompa.

April Smith kommentoi haastattelua blogissaan.

What Happens When Things Get Free?
Broadcast media is a product of scarcity. Since there’s a limited set of channels, you have to be very discriminating about what gets out, releasing only things that have a very broad appeal. The emergence of YouTube and others shows what happens when there’s an infinite set of channels available.
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He walks us through some of the business changes that happen as we move from scarcity to abundance:
- In the past, we built business cases based on ROI. Now we build it and build the business afterwards.?- In the past, “everything is forbidden unless it’s permitted.” Now everything is permitted unless forbidden.?- Scarcity is about paternalism, a decision that an editor knows what’s best. Abundance is about egalitarianism.?- Scarcity is top-down, abundance is bottom-up. Instead of command and control, it’s out of control.

Stewart Brand Meets The Cybernetic Counterculture
Cage insisted that "the highest purpose [of an artist] is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature in her manner of operation." For Cage, the rational, ordering mind that Theodore Roszak would later call "objective consciousness" had no place in art. Robert Rauschenberg agreed. "I don't want painting to be just an expression of my personality," he explained. "And I'm opposed to the whole idea of conception-execution—of getting an idea for a picture and then carrying it out. I've always felt as though, whatever I've used and whatever I've done, the method was always closer to a collaboration with materials than to any kind of conscious manipulation and control.'

Human v2.0 - BBC Horizonin dokumentti (50 min.) ja Kurzweil vs. de Garis.

Ai niin, Tieteen Kuvalehden numerossa 14/2006 on myös juttu otsikolla Ihminen versio 2.0, keskittyen lähinnä evolutiivisiin muutoksiin kuten pituuteen ja pään koon kasvamiseen sekä keinoelimiin.

Posted by kaksoisagentti at October 25, 2006 12:08 PM