Need lunarGlide soles on more shoes.
OUT: Adele.
IN: Gary Clark Jr.
Yeah, we said it. With Adele’s over-exposure and vocal problems, we’re looking for someone else who invigorates old sounds with fresh soul.
Read the List. Join the Twitter conversation using #List2012. Chat live online with us at 1 p.m. today and then join us for our Tumblr meetup tonight.
Play the Blues, Brother
It’s our annual spring preview, and to kick things off, actor Ewan McGregor dons the blue suit as you’ve never seen it before. Traditionally, it’s the most conservative suiting color—but not when you’re riffing on it like this. Our favorite business look for spring is all about piling on the blues, from your suit to your socks and everything in between. More looks here.
Photo by Peggy Sirota
I’m waiting for my new lens to come in some time this week, then pictures galore. I can’t wait, I’m sure you can’t either. Just kidding. But really.
Have had some great questions in the past few days, don’t be shy.
The Return of the Mona Lisa to the Louvre after the war, Paris, 1945
The Search for Posthumanism
Notes from the 2011 Singularity Summit
by Mike Thomsen
The idea that we can run out of time is peculiar. It’s a product of how we organize our memories.
Human consciousness is a kind of romance with the idea that time is finite and consumable. This assumption of finitude means that time can also become digested and metabolized urge, energizing the desire to imagine what is coming next. Being able to organize the past into a semicoherent system, we extrapolate forward and read ourselves into a specific future. We make predictions: Moore’s Law tells us the size and cost of microprocessors diminish every 18 months. Polling reminds us the United States prefer to re-elect their presidents during wartime. The Super Bowl favorite wins three out of four times. It has been written, and so it shall come to pass.
In the opening keynote of the Singularity Summit, Ray Kurzweil, inventor, writer, and immortalist, spoke about the looming end of prognostication. By his best estimate, the Singularity — the moment when our predictive mechanisms are overwhelmed by superintelligent computers that surpass the understanding of any one person — will happen in 2029. This will wipe clean all the fantasies and modeled futures we made for ourselves. Our ability to predict our personal destiny will vanish; in its place we will have the strange sensation of falling through the floor of our own life.
The Singularity tells us that the future is not a truth we can discover, but merely a theater for our private melodramas. Mom and dad are going to die. I’m never going to be an astronaut. Oh my god.
(Source: thenewinquiry)
Let’s be honest, Carl Sagan is probably the best human being ever.
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For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realize that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away. In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance.
—George Orwell, 1984 (via philphys)
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