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	<description>On Extropy, the Technium, and Keeping One&#039;s Feet on Solid Ground.</description>
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		<title>Extropy +20: Waste-Powered Robots</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:37:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Scientific American &#8212; Check this out! Robots that can digest biological matter, and even human waste. Great potential on long space missions. It&#8217;s a seemingly overlooked area of energy extraction for machines in general. Remember how The Matrix machines used solar energy, then switched to biological/heat energy from humans once we blotted out the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cory Doctorow: The War on General Purpose Computing</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/cory-doctorow-the-war-on-general-purpose-computing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 13:20:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Efforts to fight piracy and limit computer functionality converge on malware/spyware being pre-installed on every machine that ships. As an example, Intel has teamed up with video streaming services in the design of their new Sandy Bridge chips, which will supposedly allow for only DRM content to be streamed in HD. (Not that you have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extropy +18: Solar 3D Printer</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/extropy-18-solar-3d-printer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 18:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<title>Technology needs a soul injection.</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/technology-needs-a-soul-injection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 22:55:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thrivenotes.com/?p=5998</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[OPENING STATEMENTS Technology needs a soul injection. Who&#8217;s gonna pay the price? Technology needs a soul installation. Who&#8217;s gonna pay with their life? If we&#8217;re gonna talk about planting chips into our brains, then first we&#8217;d really better talk about who&#8217;s using who&#8230; &#8217;cause to me it seems an awful lot like tech is using [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extropy +13: Toasters</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jan 2011 19:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just love the inverse demonstration of extropy that we see here in this video. The world is so full of embedded systems and technologies within technologies. It is so difficult for one man to make and refine iron, steel, plastic, etc., yet these processes are fully matured, widespread and, in their own way, an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extropy +10: The Principles</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/extropyplusten-a-transhumanist-declaration/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 18:42:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The words of Max More are too well composed, too precise to emulate, so I have decided to provide a simple introduction and then let the rest speak for itself. The original, The Extropian Principles 3.o, is also to be found here on Max More&#8217;s own site. Introduction The term &#8216;transhumanist&#8217; comes with significant baggage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Awesome Saturn Commercial</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/awesome-saturn-commercial/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 19:23:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am told the German translates like this: Die Auslese war hart. Doch jetzt ist sie da. Die stärkste Technik aller Zeiten. Gnadenlos günstig. Saturn. Wir hassen teuer. Selection was tough. But now it&#8217;s here. The most powerful tech of all time. Mercilessly low-priced. Saturn We hate pricey. (We don&#8217;t do expensive.)]]></description>
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		<title>Using games to teach</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/using-games-to-teach/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 13:24:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Katie Salen on creating a school that teaches through games. Wish I could have gone to her school&#8230; Wait. Katie &#8211; Can I teach there with you? Watch the interview here on bigthink.com. (7 minute video) (TRANSCRIPT after the jump.) From the Quest2Learn website: An Overview. &#8220;Mission critical at Quest is a translation of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Future Shock (Minus Three)</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/future-shock-minus-three/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 11:21:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Nick Lepard, November 2008 (website) &#8220;In my most recent work I explore notions of singularity, concepts of time and patterns of change. Today, modernity requires that each of us navigate a blizzard of information. How this maelstrom of data is interpreted and synthesized constructs an individual’s paradigm. However, the qualities of the data are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extropy +4: Simulating Robot Evolution</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/extropyplusfour/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 19:09:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The total disorder in the universe, as measured by the quantity that physicists call entropy, increases steadily over time. Also, the total order in the universe, as measured by the complexity and permanence of organized structures, also increases steadily over time.&#8221; — Freeman Dyson]]></description>
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		<title>Wu-Wei @ 8%</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/eight-percent-wu-wei/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 10:06:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.&#8221; &#8211; Loren Eisley Water is a metaphor for both power and humility, bending around obstacles, seeking the path of least resistance. Water always seeks to lower itself below all else, flowing downhill to appease gravity. It this way it gains power from humility. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Future Shock (Minus Two)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 07:09:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The more things change, the more they stay the same.&#8221; FUTURE-WISE As we saw in Minus One, the future can be a very shocking proposition when it is extrapolated far out enough. But we all have to deal with the day-to-day just like anyone else. This, I believe, is why stuff like the iPad and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Future Shock (Minus One)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Too much info and too many wild concepts to consider. Let&#8217;s put it this way &#8212; To be able to hold this all in one&#8217;s mind without panic, or blind faith, or manic passion, to be able recognize the likelihood and probability of these progressively stranger concepts without a significant rise in blood-pressure; that is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nerd Nihilism</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:13:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;You can&#8217;t just go around bashing the Singularity like that!&#8221; &#8220;Well, why not? Isn&#8217;t it due the same scrutiny as any other statistical or theoretical extrapolation?&#8221; &#8220;No. Just no.&#8221; &#8220;Why is that?&#8221; &#8220;Don&#8217;t you understand?! &#8212; the Singularity is a sacred tenant of Nerd-dom, beating out even force-fields and light-sabers in conceptual God-status!&#8230;&#8221; &#8220;I am [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extropy +3: Growing Up</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/extropyplusthree/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life is resistant to entropy. Survival of the species is genetic. And selfish self-preservation is the rule. Carried out over generations, species preserve themselves. And out of humans new forms of life are springing: tools and artificial intelligence that may choose to preserve themselves at some point and push outward into the universe, saturating the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Last Question</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 12:13:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Last Question by Isaac Asimov — © 1956 The last question was asked for the first time, half in jest, on May 21, 2061, at a time when humanity first stepped into the light. The question came about as a result of a five dollar bet over highballs, and it happened this way: Alexander [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extropy +2: Extropian Forefathers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:11:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mind, through the long course of biological evolution, has established itself as a moving force in our little corner of the universe. Here on this small planet, mind has infiltrated matter and has taken control. It appears to me that the tendency of mind to infiltrate and control matter is a law of nature. — [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foundation for the Last Question</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE MEANING OF LIFE IN A DEVELOPING UNIVERSE John Stewart (source) Member of the Evolution, Complexity and Cognition Research Group The Free University of Brussels Abstract: The evolution of life on Earth has produced an organism that is beginning to model and understand its own evolution and the possible future evolution of life in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Methuselarity</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 11:51:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The 20th century was not 100 years of progress at today’s rate but, rather, was equivalent to about 20 years, because we’ve been speeding up to current rates of change. And we’ll make another 20 years of progress at today’s rate, equivalent to that of the entire 20th century, in the next 14 years. And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nöosphere</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:44:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is the Nöosphere? Pierre Teilhard de Chardin described it as &#8216;a collective consciousness created by the deepening interaction of human minds&#8217;. In other words, it is a hive mind, one which we can say is developing through the internet and connectivity-enhancing technologies. This is not new news, but where it may take us is [...]]]></description>
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