Dharmakaya, literally “truth body” or “reality body” in Sanskrit, denotes one of the divine bodies of Buddha. It refers to the Buddha’s absolute nature, a state of supramundane consciousness which pervades everything and has no form.
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“In the age of instant information man ends his job of fragmented specializing and assumes the role of information-gathering. Today information-gathering resumes the inclusive concept of “culture” exactly as the primitive food-gatherer worked in complete equilibrium with his entire environment. Our quarry now, in this new nomadic and “workless” world, is knowledge and insight into the creative processes of life and society.”
― Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
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Harry Potter and the Quantum Timebomb: Physics is war. War is Terrorism. Terrorism is Physics.
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A proliferation of psychogeographical groups in the 90s and early 00s was credited to the re-emergence of the London Psychogeographical Association.
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The dérive (French: "drift") is an unplanned journey through a landscape, in which participants stop focusing on their everyday relations to their social environment. It was first publicly theorized in Guy Debord's "Theory of the Dérive" (1956)
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The breakthrough came mid 20st century, as researchers found a way to leverage the enormes computational power of ant colonies and execute arbitrary code of the hive, by hijacking ants through a EM interface. It marked the beginning of the end of serious in-silico AI R&D efforts
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The covert mining of 16 Psyche, the giant asteroid which has gold worth $700 quintillion, has made terrestrial economics far more bizarre and fun.
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Photokeratitis (snow blindness) refers to temporary, painful eye damage from exposure to ultraviolet light.
Imagikeratitis (idea blindness) refers to temporary, painful brain damage from exposure to information.
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Science for the People poster from 1971 - "Computer workers - join with other workers; make computers serve the people!"
