MachineMachine /stream - tagged with cosmos https://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss LifePress therourke@gmail.com <![CDATA[Let's Send Philosophers and Poets to Mars | Immodest proposal | OZY]]> http://www.ozy.com/immodest-proposal/lets-send-philosophers-and-poets-to-mars/68047

Leaving planet Earth isn’t easy. This year, NASA’s Astronaut Candidate Program received a record 18,000-plus applications from highly qualified scientists bent on discovering space’s deep abyss. It will choose a handful, if that.

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Mon, 09 May 2016 01:16:37 -0700 http://www.ozy.com/immodest-proposal/lets-send-philosophers-and-poets-to-mars/68047
<![CDATA[A Matter of Feeling (exploring interzone materials between “inert” and “alive”)]]> http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/armstrong20120902

The cosmos is composed of many different species of stardust and despite our advanced, secular knowledge we imagine these primordial substances give rise to a universe, fashioned in our own image. Meta.Morf is a reflection on a new kind of image, which is evolving in a diverse set of arts practices a

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Mon, 03 Sep 2012 02:36:00 -0700 http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/armstrong20120902
<![CDATA[A Matter of Feeling (exploring interzone materials between “inert” and “alive”)]]> http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/armstrong20120902

The cosmos is composed of many different species of stardust and despite our advanced, secular knowledge we imagine these primordial substances give rise to a universe, fashioned in our own image. Meta.Morf is a reflection on a new kind of image, which is evolving in a diverse set of arts practices a

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Mon, 03 Sep 2012 02:36:00 -0700 http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/armstrong20120902
<![CDATA[Carl Sagan - 'A Glorious Dawn' ft Stephen Hawking (Cosmos Remixed)]]> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc&feature=youtube_gdata ]]> Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:25:00 -0700 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc&feature=youtube_gdata <![CDATA[The Simulacrisation of Technology into Life]]> http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/50098

As the Pentagon ousts plans to turn insects into cyber war machines you'd be forgiven for asking the question: Where does the real digital end and the faked life begin? Are we simulating life synthetically? or just speeding up an entirely natural process? Technologically engineered life is here to stay. Its not far fetched to speculate that simulacra may become all there is.

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Wed, 15 Mar 2006 20:09:26 -0800 http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/50098