Humanity and the world around us
- What the thinker thinks the prover proves… science religion
By Jason Pontin
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Credit: Ed Quinn
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Seth Lloyd, a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, is among the pioneers of quantum computing: he proposed the first technologically feasible design for a quantum computer. If humans ever build a useful, general-purpose quantum computer, it will owe much to Lloyd. Earlier this year, he published a popular introduction to quantum theory and computing, titled Programming the Universe, which advanced the startling thesis that the universe is itself a quantum computer.
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Technology Review: In your new book, you are admirably explicit: you write, “The Universe is indistinguishable from a quantum computer.” How can that be true?
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- David Lynch: Consciousness, Creativity and the Brain
The inside story on transcending the brain, with David Lynch, Award-winning film director of Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, Mullholland Drive, Inland Empire (filming); John Hagelin, Ph.D., Quantum physicist featured in “What the bleep do we know?;” and Fred Travis, Ph.D., Director, Center for Brain, Consciousness and Cognition Maharishi University of Management. [events] [artshumanities] Credits: producers:UC Berkeley Educational Technology Services, speaker:David Lynch, speaker:John Hagelin, Ph.D., speaker:Fred Travis, Ph.D.
- Hearing Test
afbeelding-8Simple as ONE, TWO, THREE… Listen, React, Act…
- Michael Franti and Spearhead
In an interview, Franti talks about the message of Stay Human: “Half the record is songs about what’s happening in the world right now, and the other half is about how we cope with it as people who are concerned about what’s going on,” he says. “This spectre of war, intimidation, this nation vs. the rest of the world, it wears us out. Half the record is a healthy dose of venting anger about that, and the other half is about how do we hold on to our spirituality, our community and our connectedness to each other.
- Into the Wild
Into the Wild is writer/director Sean Penn’s adaptation of the popular book by Jon Krakauer, a nonfiction account of the post-collegiate wanderings of a young Virginia man, who divorces himself from his friends, family, and possessions in search of a greater spiritual knowledge and communion with nature.
- The Century of the Self
It cannot have been easy to make a documentary series about the history of advertising and consumer society, about ethics (and their absence), about notions of the self and its manipulation in the interests of power and profit.
- Visions of the Future
BBC Four’s three part series presented by Dr. Michio Kaku, a leading theoretical physicist and futurist. He delves into the new technologies of the present and the future, and argues that humanity is nearing the point where we undergo a transformation to become masters of life, from the mere observers of life and nature that we are today.
- Nan Goldin and Patrick Wolf- Ballad of Sexual Dependency
nanandbrianinbedNan Goldin & Patrick Wolf
The Ballad of Sexual Dependancy
UBS The Long Weekend
@ Tate Modern London
24.05.08A slideshow of Goldin’s photographs from “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency” with music by Patrick Wolf. It was shown at the Tate Modern on 24.05.08 and this is a recording of the exhibition.
For more information on Nan Goldin, see http://fototapeta.art.pl/2003/ngie.php for an interview with the photographer.
- Jacob Holdt - “American Pictures”
holdtA moving narrative through photographs and text portraying the effects of racial discrimination and the lack of welfare and a collective social resposibility in the U.S.
Fore more information on the photographer, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Holdt
- Night on Earth
A collection of five stories involving cab drivers in five different cities. Los Angeles - A talent agent for the movies discovers her cab driver would be perfect to cast, but the cabbie is reluctant to give up her solid cab driver’s career. New York - An immigrant cab driver is continually lost in a city and culture he doesn’t understand. Paris - A blind girl takes a ride with a cab driver from the Ivory Coast and they talk about life and blindness. Rome - A gregarious cabbie picks up an ailing man and virtually talks him to death. Helsinki - an industrial worker gets laid off and he and his compatriots discuss the bleakness and unfairness of love and life and death. Written by Ed Sutton {esutton@mindspring.com}
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