Archive for October, 2008

Taking Society to the Net

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

Remarks delivered at the Sarasota International Design Summit
27 Oct 2008
Part 2
Taking Society to the Net
This portion of the lecture was heavily inspired by the brilliant and visionary work of my dear friend and philosophical mentor, Mark Pesce.  Thank you, Mark, for your fecund cranium!
The modern rate of innovation knows no precedent.  Today we are [...]

A cosmic perspective.

Saturday, October 25th, 2008

Remarks delivered at the Sarasota International Design Summit, 27 Oct 2008
Part 1
Cosmic Innovation
It is said that we live in an age of unprecedented innovation.  Actually, that’s a bit redundant.  Innovation invokes the unprecedented by definition; all innovation creates something having no precedent, something that did not exist before.  At the moment of innovation, you [...]