What Steve Jobs understood about consciousness and design
Accounts of the development of the personal computing revolution focus on technology or business, but early insiders and readers of What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counter culture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry by John Markoff know about the counter-culture and consciousness expansion behind the first PCs: a group of visionaries set out to turn computers into a means for freeing minds and information. Many of the pioneers were inspired through cognitive shifts
Put the “Ph” Back in PhD
How students learn to be scientists? Are they aware of what influences what and how they investigate? Education can prevent their indoctrination into the very narrow culture of one particular field or unquestioned influences such as corporate power. Read more
How conscious tech can promote paradigm shift: from personal to global change
The current planetary crisis is demonstrative of the inadequacy of the materialistic worldview as a paradigm upon which to build civilizations. Not only is the ailing materialistic paradigm challenged by the physics and consciousness research of the last century, materialism lacks internal, logical consistency. For all the claims of scientism that the human essence does not exist, that we are just pieces of matter, it reaches such conclusions through experience and thought, w
