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Neuromancer (the novel) at 25 - PC World Author Looks at What It Got Right and Not

Neuromancer at 25: What It Got Right, What It Got Wrong by Mark Sullivan on PC World I remeber spending time with Timothy Leary back in 1985 shortly after Neuromancer had been published in paperback. Tim pulled it off his...

Future Organic Technology -- The Visionary Art of Paul Laffoley

Link for this Post: Intro to Paul Laffoley and Future Organic Technology A couple of days ago, I found a site called Miquel.Com "Your Favorite Source of Random Information." Actually the information is not a "random" as advertised but along...

Are Smart Drugs the Answer to Bad Moods—and a Bad Economy? Discover

Link for this Post: Are Smart Drugs the Answer to Bad Moods—and a Bad Economy? by Sherry Baker in Discover Magazine. This is a wide ranging article about "smart drug's" that covers a set of topics much broader than its...

He Has Ridden -- Celebrating Bicycle Day 66

Links for this Post: Editorial: He Has Ridden by Bruce Eisner first published in published Island Views in the Winter of 1993. Today is the 66th Bicycle Day, April 19, 2009 so I thought it would be appropriate to excerpt...

Video: Storm NLP with Brainwave Entrainment on YouTube (Plus How To)

Links for this Post and embedded YouTube Video Storm NLP Plus Brain Wave Entrainment, How To Information on the Healing MindN Power Circle Blog Mind Stereo Mind Media Player for Windows Version 1.0 I resonate with the YouTube video by...

I'm "XRanked" on Live.Com Search -- Link broken

Broken Link: X-Rank is based on a search algorithm of change in the volume of searches for various persons, ideas, places and things of interest to the public. I'm listed among 567 most-searched for bloggers on Live Search (and we...

Adam Cheyer and the Intelligent Software Assistant

Links for this Post: TR10: Intelligent Software Assistant Adam Cheyer is leading the design of powerful software that acts as a personal aide" By Erica Naone in the Technology Review Published by MIT Adam Cheyer Home Page Information overload is...

Mattel Will Release Neurofeedback Brain Game -- Brain Flex -- CBS Video on YouTube

Links for ths Post include embedded video below plus: Mind Flex Like Basketball for Your Mind on Gizmodo Odball Gadgets: Mattel Mind Flex by Melissa Perenso on PC World Video: Mattel Mind Flex hands (and heads) on Engadget The Mattel...

What Type Is My Blog? Find Out With Typealyzer!

Links for this Post: Typealyzer Blog Personality Analysis 'What Am I Like?' personality test Are you a regular Vision Thing reader and have been wondering about what I am really like? With Typealyzer you can find out almost instantly. Typealyzer...

Gaia - The future of politics -- YouTube Video

Gaia - The future of politics (embedded below) I've been digging through my email bin trying to reach the bottom. It is getting closer or so I believe. I found a video sent to me late last year via this...

Heal The Planet, Live Forever, and Travel The Stars by Paul Hughes --- Updated Link

Link for this Post Heal The Planet, Live Forever, and Travel The Stars My friend and fellow psychedelic blogger Paul Hughes, founder of the pioneering FutureHi weblog has written another of his extensive essays. This one is about us humans...

The New Timothy Leary Archives Website -- Plus YouTube Video Interview with Webmaster of Leary.Com

Link for this Post: The New Timothy Leary Archives Website My long-time friend Dennis Berry along with an assemblage of Timothy Leary's friends including Joi Ito, Ken Gofmann (RU Sirius), Joey Cavella and Chris Graves (the later two featured in...

We Can Be Together': American Countercultural Music, Film and the trappings of the mainstream

Link for this Post:We Can Be Together': American Countercultural Music, Film and the trappings of the mainstream Mike Leader on the Wild Tyme Blog Here is an excerpt from Mike Leader's insighful essay: The counterculture of the 1960s featured important...

Read the Online Version of the New Tranhumanist Magazine h+ edited by Mondo 2000 founder Ken Gofmann AKA RU Sirius

Link for this Post: Read the Free Online PDF Version of the New Tranhumanist Magazine h+ edited by Mondo 2000 founder Ken Gofmann AKA RU Sirius Many of you remember Mondo 2000, the Berkeley based magazine published by Alison Kennedy...

The Buzz from Burning Man 2008 The "American Dream"

Link for this Post: Burning Man 2008 -- "The American Dream" Offical Site The theme of this year's Burning Man is the American Dream, which is appropriate since many at the Democratic convention noted that the American Dream seems to...

Future Internet: Duncan Campbell examines the technology that will one day bring about the “thinking Web”.

Link for this Post: Future Internet - Internet - NetGuide I liked the picture that is featured at the top of this article by Duncan Cambell on the future of the Internet so I republished it at the top of...

Exploring Life Extension a video documentary from the Immortality Insitute on Google Video

A full feature movie from the Immortality Institute, intruducing the vision and prospects of life extension. I found this vidio by way of K21st - 21st Century Must Have Knowledge a transhumanist blog.

Aldous Huxley: Mike Wallace 1958 Video Interview

Note: Clicking on the picture does not start a video, it takes you to the University of Texas at Austin Page where you can watch the video. Links for this Post: Video Aldous Huxley: The Mike Wallace Interview. Transcript of...

How to Operate Your Brain by Timothy Leary Updated Now on YouTube

Link for this Post: See You Tube Video Below Timothy Leary made this video, How to Operate your Brain more than a decade ago. The 28 minute 58 second video was produced by Chris Graves and the other folks at...

Create Instant Mindmaps From Wikipedia with WikiMindMap

Links for this Post: Bruce Eisner Wikipedia WikiMindMap WikiMindMap home page (make your own WikiMindMaps) Here's a site that combines a couple of cool technologies, wiks and in this case specifically Wikipedia plus mind maps .You can generates a mind...

Findings - Futurist Ray Kurzweil Sees a Revolution Fueled by Information Technology - NYTimes.com

Link for this Post: Findings - Futurist Ray Kurzweil Sees a Revolution Fueled by Information Technology - NYTimes.com. Here is a bit from the beginning of this piece. Do you have trouble sticking to a diet? Have patience. Within 10...

FutureHi Founder Paul Hughes New Site on the Web

Link: Paul Hughes' Site on the Web. Paul Huges who started the lively FutureHi blog back in 2003, which was a MUST READ for those of us interested in psychedelics, altered states of consciousness and the future of humans, our...

Robert Anton Wilson's Prometheus Rising FREE eBook Download

Link for this Post: Robert Anton Wilson's Prometheus Rising. Robert Anton Wilson passed on last year but his ideas live on in large number of books, essays and interviews. Prometheus Risingwas one of his most influential books during his life...

The Search for A Female Aphrodesiac Continues

Link for this Post: The hunt for '"pink" Viagra -- in the St. Peters Times. Sigmund Freud once said, The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty...

The Dream Machine Online

Link for this Post: The Dream Machine Online Note; Be sure to close your eyes when you view the dream machine. Three years ago, I wrote Remembering Brion Gysin Among Gysin's works was the concept of the Dream Machine. The...

The Longevity Meme -- Ideas and Actions for Longer, Healthier Lives

Link:for this Post The Longevity Meme -- Ideas and Actions for Longer, Healthier Lives. Having just headed into a decade of my life, the idea of slowing the aging process becomes increasingly more interesting. Here is a log with a...

The Hivemind Aesthetic, Instopix and Other Art

Links for this Post The Hivemind Aesthetic. Luke Stanley on Stumble Upon Luke Stanley's Blog Instapix I stumbled upon a young fellow from England a couple of years ago, who is working on a semantically sensitive software program that adds...

Yes We Can Barack Obama Music Video on YouTube

Link for the Post: YouTube Video embedded below My friend Will Penna sent me this Youtube Video by email.. I was surprised to get it from him since he was for Hillary last week. He says with the email: I...

Psychedelic Healing in by David Jay Brown in Scientific American

Link for this Post: Click and download this PDF file Psychedelic healing?- Scientific American Mind This Scientific American Mind Edition article on new scientific research on psychedelic compounds by my old friend David Jay Brown is made available by the...

Dude, Where’s My Driverless Car? Consumer Electornics Show Vegas

Link for this Post: CES: Dude, Where’s My Driverless Car? on All things Digital While New Hampshire was busy giving Hillary Clinton a come-from-behind win, in Vegas, we were busy checking out cutting edge technology at the Consumer Electrics Show....

Got Wis.dm? New Online Community Has All the Answers

Link for this Post: Visit Wis.dm through this link! Wis.dm is the latest online community -- an interesting mashup of Yahoo! Answers, MySpace and Digg. Community members become resident experts to answer the steady onslaught of questions from new members/seekers....

Build A Hacked Macintosh Running Leopard from Off-The-Shelf Parts for Under $800

Link this Post: Hack Attack: Build a Hackintosh Mac for Under $800. File this in the 'it finally had to happen" category but someone managed to build a "Macintosh" or ""Hackintosh"" as Adam Pash is a senior editor for Lifehacker...

Neurofeedback for Peak Performance Video on YouTube

Link for this Post: Neurofeedback on the Brain blog (video is embedded below)_ I found this video by way of the Neurofeedback on the Brain blog. Dr.Karen Shue posted this video and says about it: I thought you might enjoy...

Are Psychedelics Google’s Biggest Trade Secret?

Link for this Post: Reality Sandwich Google and the Myceliation of Consciousness. I'm not sure if this article is irrefutable proof of the idea that psychedelics are Google’s biggest trade secret but the author RoseRose has a gift for blarney...

LSD Inventor Albert Hofmann Named No. 1 Among Top 100 living geniuses - Telegraph

Link:s for this Post Top 100 living geniuses - Telegraph. British brains dominate list of living geniuses By Aislinn Simpson Telegraph I was pleased to see that my dear old friend Albert Hofmann, who turned 100 last year has been...

Google's Orkut: A World of Ambition -- Business Week

Link for this Post: Google's Orkut: A World of Ambition Seizing on Orkut's momentum in Asia and Latin America, Google moves to revamp its social networking site and take aim at Facebook and MySpace by Olga Kharif When Google first...

Connect Your Brain to the Game Using an Emotiv Systems EEG Neurofeedback Cap -- YouTube Video

Links for this Post: YouTube Video "Stonehenge Demo' embedded below Connecting Your Brain to the Game Using an EEG cap, a startup hopes to change the way people interact with video games by Kate Greene in the MIT Technology Review...

Joi Ito's Web: "My Timothy Leary"

Link: Joi Ito's Web: My Timothy Leary. The picture to the left is from Joi Ito's website. For thos who don't know who Joi Ito is, his Wikipedia entry is instructive. I met Joi in the early Nineties at Timothy...

Getting Dug and Stumbled Upon

Links for this Post Stumbled Upon Why We Get High Why We Get High by Bruce Eisner on Bruce Eisner's Writings blog We We Get High on Digg Most of you know Digg and Stumbled Upon -- two social network...

URTH.TV Consciousness Movement Social Network

Link for this post: URTH.TV Consciousness Movement Social Network. I discovered Urth.TV last week and joined immediately. I used to speak at the Whole Life Expo in the 1980s, both myself and with Timothy Leary. I'm already a member of...

The Shock Doctrine A Short Film by Alfonso Cuarón and Naomi Klein -- YouTube Video

Links for this Post: The Shock Doctrine A Short Film by Alfonso Cuarón and Naomi Klein -- YouTube Video Ebbed in this post below The Shock Doctrine Book and Film Home Page The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism...

Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Looks to Robotics and Artificial Intelligence -- eWeek

Link for this Post: Apple Co-Founder Looks to Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. By Michael Vizard in eWeek The less publicly prominent of the Apple co-founders, Steve Wozniak or "The Woz" as he is known to his friends takes a look...

Horizons - Contemporary perspectives on psychedelics October 27 New York City

Link for this Post: Horizons - Contemporary perspectives on psychedelics. A one-day event in New York City features Rick Doblin, Ph.D.of MAPS, Judy Holland MD, author of Ecstasy: the Complete Guide, Artists Alex and Allyson Grey, Neal M. Goldsmith, Ph.D,...

Singularity Summit 2007 Complete Audio Downloads And Kurzweil Video

Link for this Post: Singularity Summit 2007 | The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence. Futurists includ Ray Kurzweil, Rodney Brooks and Dr. Peter Norvig's head of research at Google were among more than a dozen presenters The Singularity Summit last...

Top 10 Video Search Engines

Link: Top 10 Video Search Engines on Read/WriteWeb A lot of people think that Google is the only way to search for video because it is so good at searching for websites. What people do not know is that Google...

Oxford Philosopher Nick Bostrom Says We May be Living in a Simulation -- NY Times

Link for this Post: Our Lives, Controlled From Some Guy’s Couch By John Tierney in the New York Times Oxford Philosopher Nick Bostrom, founder of Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies believe that we are living in someone else's computer...

Parallel Universes, Alien Religions and Carl Jung: An Interview With Clifford Pickover on alterati

Link for this Post: Parallel Universes, Alien Religions and Carl Jung: An Interview With Clifford Pickover by Jason Lubyk on the alterati blog. I've posted about Clifford Pickover several times before. This science fiction writer and noteworthy oddity blogger is...

Burning Man Grows Up -- Business 2.0

Link for this Post: Burning Man Grows Up Business 2.0 This article begins with this: America's biggest counterculture jamboree is also a $10 million business. Now, Business 2.0 reports, it's trying to leverage its brand -- and save the planet...

Updated: NewsVine Launches ElectionVine: Widget Based Election Polling -- Vote NOW!

Link to this Post: NewsVine Launches ElectionVine: Widget Based Election Polling Duncan Riley on TechCrunch Update: I updated this post to remind you about what the black rectangle on the column of Vision Thing is for . . . and...

Podtropolis - The iPod Tracker Is Back Up

Link for this Post: Podtropolis - The iPod Tracker. Podtropolis is a torrent tracking and search site dedicated to downloadable movies and other content for the iPod. according to Digg where I found the site, " The popular torrent site...