Here is a pod cast interview with Foster, covering his relationship to his family’s business, the inheritance that enabled his filmmaking, and summarizing the solutions.
Courtney Brown presents a theory and data exploring the idea of describing the future with respect to multiple realities or alternate timelines. The remote-viewing data constitute one of the largest collections of such data for a single project using structured remote-viewing platforms that were developed by the U.S. military.
Two timelines are explored, with both suggesting potentially catastrophic climatic change by June 2013.
The Farsight Institute conducted a Climate Project that utilized remote-viewing data with Earth-based targets for the years 2008 and 2013. Two remote-viewing methodologies (CRV and HRVG) and eight highly trained remote viewers were involved in the study.
The primary purpose of the study is to explore the use of remote viewing to predict the future given certain conditions. All remote-viewing sessions were completed prior to the target date for the 2008 targets. All targets were randomly assigned to the remote-viewing sessions using a publicly verifiable process after the remote-viewing sessions were completed, data encrypted, and all data made available for public download from the web site for The Farsight Institute. The remote-viewing data thereby described the 2008 targets in advance of the targets being chosen for the sessions, an unambiguous and successful example of prediction using nonlocal consciousness.
The targets were chosen using Google Earth, focusing on targets which might be expected to show signs of noticeable near-term environmental change within the time span of the study.
In this study, the 2013 targets probe two different future timelines, one in which mainstream science recognizes the existence of remote viewing as a real phenomenon as well as the existence of some form of extraterrestrial life, and another timeline in which this recognition does not occur.
The rationale behind the two timelines is that the near future may be significantly different under the contrasting scenarios. This presentation outlines the surprising results of this study. This study follows a highly successful year-long parallel study also conducted at The Farsight Institute that explicitly tests for the existence of multiple realities or timelines (the Multiple Universes Project).
The good news? Jesus and Atlantis return to Earth…fairly regularly. Humans will domestic and have sex with robots, Cyprus will achieve its goal (?), and a 14 bladed razor is on the horizon.
The bad news? Printed newspapers may become obsolete and in 2051 the atmosphere will finally escape it’s terrestrial bounds and re-merge with space.
Japan, the world’s second largest economy, is facing a demographic crisis that will shrink the population dramatically. The Japanese aren’t having babies, and the country won’t accept immigrants to help bolster the population. But Japan may have a unique solution — Robots!
For further context, here’s a handy page full of articles exploring the philosophical implications of AI and other Singularity technologies. Singularity 101
From the macrocosm of human civilization, to the microcosm of a single human being, we are just beginning to realize our potential to harness the power of Sol.
Here Comes the Sun
Uplifting 48 min documentary on the migration to solar power:
The Sun
Visually appealing BBC documentary on solar weather, spots and flares
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Word Lens is an iPhone application that translates signs in real time using the video camera. Once the eye and ear implants come along international communication barriers will be a ghost artifact of incomplete understanding. Awesome.
Just a reminder that we are all still hurtling towards technological omnipresence.
When anyone with an internet connection can fly their digital body anywhere in the world, and view live streaming video and data metrics of what is happening there, how will the global zeitgeist respond? How can these technologies be used for the benefit of all beings?
Journalists are coping with the rising information flood by borrowing data visualization techniques from computer scientists, researchers and artists. Some newsrooms are already beginning to retool their staffs and systems to prepare for a future in which data becomes a medium. But how do we communicate with data, how can traditional narratives be fused with sophisticated, interactive information displays?
Spotlighted in the documentary is a short film called ‘The Crisis of Credit,’ a great example of how to use concise visual symbols to simplify an enormously complex subject.
