Growth in Internet Connections – Update from 10 years Ago
Network Infrastructure for the Neurosphere
As expected.
2005 – 15% of world population connected to internet
2015 – 42%.
Network Infrastructure for the Neurosphere
FireChat as self organizing (auto poetic) neural connection
Network Infrastructure for the Neurosphere
When users are connected to the internet, FireChat works like any other messaging app. But when the signal is weak or absent, it comes into its own, using Bluetooth or Wi-fi to bounce messages between phones until it can find an internet connection and be whisked off to its intended recipient.
World Population Day
Wholeness and Virtual Communities
one of my theories is when population hits 10 billion (forecast to be in 2050), emergent global brain events will begin to occur.
Brain Computer Interface experiment
Personal Infrastructure
Looks like a unique opportunity to add more granularity to early BCI studies.
The Signature of Humanity
The World Right Now
From MIT Senseable City Lab. Visualizing Internet data traffic, but what does it say about collective mental activity?
Pop Song – Alone/Together
Wholeness and Virtual Communities
All my fake friends and all of their noise, complain about work
They’re studying business, I study the floor, and you haven’t stopped smoking all night.
Maybe the Internet raised us, or maybe people are jerks.
Lorde
A World Alone
The Internet of Fungus
Wholeness and Virtual Communities
“By linking to the fungal network they can help out their neighbours by sharing nutrients and information – or sabotage unwelcome plants by spreading toxic chemicals through the network.”
Weathercloud
The World Right Now
“Weathercloud is road weather intelligence.” This one resonates in Colorado, land of microclimates.
Flo is in Your Car
Personal Infrastructure
An awareness module, with a business model and creepy undertones, but still.
http://www.smirproject.eu/mondovi/?p=24&lang=it
http://www.progressive.com/auto/snapshot-how-it-works.aspx
RFID as common as Barcodes – we’ll be swimming in RF waves
Personal Infrastructure
“To replace barcodes, RFID tags will need to cost a penny or less. But Cho says this should be achievable if all the layers on a tag can be deposited with a roll-to-roll process”