Mondo 2000

December 16, 2000, Palm Springs, CA. Speaking at the Prophets Conference ~ Palm Springs (number 8) held at the Marquis Resort Conference Center. Recorded by Steven Pratt using a portable minidisc recorder. https://youtu.be/hR88wtigN_w

"A Google Engineer named Blake Lemoine was placed on leave last week after publishing transcripts of a conversation with Google's AI ChatBot in which, the engineer claims, the ChatBot showed signs of sentience." https://boingboing.net/2022/06/14/google-engineer-suspended-after-allegedly-warning-of-ai-sentience.html

Peel played tracks from the artists in the 1970's and '80's, including their previous group COUM Transmissions. On his 12 December 1979 show, Peel recalled meeting the bandleader in an earlier era: "That Genesis P. Orridge, always a man well ahead of his time, in fact. I...See more

Ray Kurzweil has this nifty little chart that shows the cost of computing per bit, dropping precipitously – exponentially – as time goes by. Like so much of his work, he manages to miss the big point by focusing on a particularly meaningless one. If I were to draw a chart, I’d...See more

Whenever any one of us displays a new behavior in a hyperconnected context, that behavior is inherently transparent, visible and observed. If that behavior is successful, it is immediately copied by those who witnessed the behavior, then copied by those who witness that behavior,...See more

I don’t know that I would claim to describe its basic tenets, but I’ll say what the intrigue is for me. I see it in terms of hacking. One of the basic ideas behind hacking is that you take a technological system or object and you get it to do things beyond what it was apparently...See more

Mark Pesce: Well, there's big theory here. My current big theory.. one reason I propose theories is to get them out there so that people will start talking about them and establish discourse because this field does not have nearly enough discourse yet. Lets talk about something...See more

“The Internet is watching us now. If they want to. They can see what sites you visit. In the future, television will be watching us, and customizing itself to what it knows about us. The thrilling thing is, that will make us feel we’re part of the medium. The scary thing is, we’ll lose our right to privacy. An ad will appear in the air around us, talking directly to us.” - Director Steven Spielberg, Minority Report https://collective-spark.xyz/the-future-is-here-dystopian-movies-fit-for-a-dystopian-world/

"I threatened to uninstall the app [and] she begged me not to." https://futurism.com/chatbot-abuse?fbclid=IwAR238avr7s-sGDuOESt63Cz7QKhEBMxIMNOVkjZXmA7HgwxKmSi5hjZCOkM

The Illuminatus! Trilogy is a series of three novels by American writers Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, first published in 1975.[1] The trilogy is a satirical, postmodern, science fiction-influenced adventure story; a drug-, sex-, and magic-laden trek through a number of...See more

John Markoff is a senior writer for The New York Times. In this Neofiles show they talk about his book; What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry. The book details the history of the personal computer, closely tying the...See more