Social Singularity Scrapbook

"The truth at any cost reduces all other costs."

Robert Steele

"Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important."

Steve Jobs

Yeah it’s an ad but cool anyway. via http://boingboing.net/2011/11/07/astounding-3d-effects-projected-onto-a-buildings-facade.html

"We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves by our intentions."

Ian Percy

“Dave Asprey talks in Sweden about the lifestyle of a biohacker and his accomplishments.”

"A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality."

Yoko Ono

“The Notepad looks like an everyday yellow legal pad of paper, however each line of each page of the notepad is constructed of micro-printed text and contains the personal details of Iraqi civilian casualties. Each printed edition of 100 notepads is covertly distributed to the United States Congress. Once in circulation on Capital Hill each notepad then acts as a Trojan horse - slipping the unwanted and unacknowledged civilian body count data into official governmental archives.” also see:
http://www.triangulationblog.com/2011/09/notepad-by-swamp.html

"The essence of tyranny is the denial of complexity."

Jacob Burkhardt

"Biology is not destiny. It was never more than tendency. It was just nature’s first quick and dirty way to compute with meat. Chips are destiny."

Bart Kosko http://sipi.usc.edu/~kosko/GodEssays.D05/Heaven_in_a_Chip.pdf

Fantastic!