BlogHide Resteemsmetric.media (47)in contest • 7 years agoThe Architect Is Coming For You (The End of Metric Media)This will be the last post from this account . . . . Here is what happened as reported by Transhumanity.net with in-line additions by the survivors . . . . (Provo, Utah) It appears that, in a…metric.media (47)in technology • 7 years agoSimulated News and Techno-TribalismWe have reached a point in the early 21st Century at which media cannot be assumed to directly represent reality. This is both true in the general and older sense that we may distrust any…metric.media (47)in gaming • 7 years agoTechGnosis: Reality Hacking for Fun & ProfitMetric Media recently published an article called “Burning Houses & Gaming the Future”, which explored the utility of game logic in helping people achieve real goals in our increasingly…resteemedthe.architect (44)in contest • 7 years agoTranshuman Gamification and Writing ContestNow that The Foundation's CES agents have been removed from the equation, it's time to make more effective use of their resources . . . . Therefore, by my decree, The Foundation’s contest is now…resteemedsotiera (44)in gamification • 7 years agoThe Foundation, The Hunt, and The Cash - Can a well financed Role Playing approach improve involvement in important causes?Recently there was a post to Transhumanity.net by a group that refers to itself as 'the foundation'. The post, (linked here: ) suggests a game to be played at a conference taking place from the…resteemedzero-state (49)in contest • 7 years agoCatch Foundation Agents at CES 2018 & Win $5,000.00 USDCatch Foundation Agents at CES 2018 and Win $5,000.00 USD (Las Vegas, NV, USA – Jan 2018) The Foundation has announced that there will be two agents on the floor of CES 2018 (The Consumer…metric.media (47)in culture • 7 years agoAutognosis: Cities 3Grid Scale Energy Storage So far in Autognosis: Cities we’ve discussed how growth curves of cities could be brought into alignment with other life forms, how a city could be fitted with a smart…metric.media (47)in culture • 7 years agoAutognosis: Cities 2Sustainable Design In the last installment of ‘Autognosis: Cities’ we discussed a theory of matching the growth curve of a city with that of an organism. In this installment, I would like to…metric.media (47)in gaming • 7 years agoBurning Houses & Gaming the FutureBack in the distant, hazy days of 1998, Futurist Douglas Rushkoff published a book called “Playing the Future” (published in the UK as “Children of Chaos”). The book’s central thesis was that people…metric.media (47)in ai • 7 years agoKiller AI, Black Mirrors, & Murphy’s LawDebate over the risk and promise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and other technologies can be depressingly simplistic, often polarised into two camps with views that are extreme to the point of…metric.media (47)in culture • 7 years agoAutognosis: Cities 1’Cities are the Crucible of civilization’. So said Geoffrey West, a professor studying the General Scaling Phenomenon of the natural habitat of the modern human – cities. Geoffrey has spent his…metric.media (47)in big-data • 7 years agoBig Data Knows You, Better Than You DoNo Such Thing As A Free Meal There are always strings attached, they say. Perhaps this is nowhere more true than in the human mind, which believes itself to be in charge of its own conscious…metric.media (47)in ux • 7 years agoTHINKING ABOUT UX FOR TOUCH DISPLAYS 4: SVGAnimation, either of text elements or of logos, icons, and other visual devices, should be used always. Wherever possible. Our competitors here are not so much web designs as they are videogame…