April 2006 Archives

Renaissance??

"...The more I study the original Renaissance, the more I see our own era as having at least as much renaissance character and potential. Where the Renaissance brought us perspective painting, the current one brings virtual reality and holography. The Renaissance saw humanity circumnavigating the globe; in our own era we've learned to orbit it from space. Calculus emerged in the 15th Century, while systems theory and chaos math emerged in the 20th. Our analog to the printing press is the Internet, our equivalent of the sonnet and extended metaphor is hypertext." Read more about it at rushkoff.com.

April 19, 2006 | 04:54 PM | Permalink
Renaissance?

reboot, 1-2 june 2006, Copenhagen
"...reboot is a community event for the practical visionaries who are at the intersection of digital technology and change all around us... 2 days. 400 people. A journey into the interconnectedness of creation, participation, values, openness, decentralization, collaboration, complexity, technology, p2p, humanities, connectedness and many more areas.
Applied towards us as individuals, citizens, teachers, culture workers, entrepreneurs, creators and change makers." ( more info at reboot.dk )

April 19, 2006 | 04:49 PM | Permalink
Cosmeceuticals

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Dr Perricone, talking about his anti-aging plan and cosmeceuticals.

April 17, 2006 | 04:47 PM | Permalink