As goofy as that seems at first... it's not a bad idea actually. Especially if the upright mode made the car more maneuverable for city driving and parking... - Nick
THIS IS SO WICKED! I can't wait. Its the beginning of a totally new TV - Roger Kondrat
That's what I want to see, stuff little devices when I'm home. Want it out of the box with a new tv. - Mo Kargas
there are so many possibilities in the television experience ... none of which exist now, which is like peering through a hole in the wall at a party, but somebody stands in front of the hole half the time .. an ugly experience, makes my brain hurt in its present form - gregory lent
#1: Rommel Pacheco, of Mexico, dives in the men's 10 meter platform diving semifinals during the 2008 Olympics in Beijing Saturday, Aug. 23, 2008. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky) - Mitchell Tsai
#2: Ukraine's Ganna Bessonova competes in the individual all-around final of the rhythmic gymnastics at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing on August 23, 2008. (FRANCK FIFE/AFP/Getty Images) - Mitchell Tsai
#3: Tingting Jiang and Wenwen Jiang of China perform during the preliminary round of the synchronised swimming duet free routine at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games on August 19, 2008. The Chinese pair finished in third place. (GREG WOOD/AFP/Getty Images) - Mitchell Tsai
Question: Has anyone located feeds to (1) complete diving competitions (2) complete gymnastics competitions. I'm looking for recordings of ALL competitors qualifying and finals. It's a shame that the only time most of the US public gets to see these beautiful non-headliners (Rommel & Ganna) is in still photos because NBC does SOOO much commentary. I prefer some foreign video feeds but haven't looked yet. Thanks! - Mitchell Tsai
Rahsheen: Wait until you see someone stand on one foot, and point the other foot 270 degrees over their head - towards the front... :-) - Mitchell Tsai
If there's one thing that FriendFeed is good for, it's good for finding pictures of puppies to forward to my girlfriend. I get all sorts of credit for that. Thanks, guys. - Kirk Kittell
This particular Japanese guy has a very cute and well-trained Akita that he loves taking pictures of. Through his photos I can tell that dog is loved. - J. Phil
lol. No acid, honestly. I'd pass a drug test tomorrow. - Duncan Riley
mystics say there is only one mind, we are all part of it. experiencing this has great value. it gives context for any particular event, helps with understanding relevance, removes the fishbowl effect, provides a measure of what is useful and what is not, and it wins in the end. collective wisdom is wisdom.
our apparent individuality is subsumed in the end.
this is the most reflective post i have ever seen here, a sign of transformation (which can be defined as leaving a lower understanding for a higher) and a necessary step in unfolding the collective consciousness. technology is ourselves pushing ourselves towards collective wisdom, because our inner self knows it is a higher reality. - gregory lent
I had much the same thought Cyndy but if you listen to tonight's elite Tech News when it gets posted tomorrow I provide a possible explanation for Duncan's "behavior" especially regarding Winer for US CTO :) - Steven Hodson
Ooh, I can't wait! What is it? Mass hypnosis? A brain tumor? - Jason Carreira
ooh, i gave a serious reply, how dumb of me - gregory lent
Sounds like Duncan to me. This is why we love him - Charlie Anzman
@Gregory, serious? I thought you'd dropped a tab or two yourself... ;) - Jason Carreira
Oneness of anything like wisdom as a simple sum of all knowledge that humans accumulated cannot IMO be tapped or used in any systematic way. See, for example in14th century, Christian Church still prescribed prayer to cure epilepsy, despite all wisdom existing hitherto. Humans are unable to tap anything collective cause history is never considered and goals/objectives of many are very egocentric! - Hayk Hakobyan
@jason, no tabs ... lot of meditation though .. no one to talk to about that in most social media forums, i am finding, might have to start a blog to provide some context .... lots of connection between tech and consciousness - gregory lent
@gregory Mystics are smoking crack. Why on Earth would anyone think so little of themselves and their individuality and dehumanize the uniqueness of proprietary thought by lumping themselves into some non existent "collective wisdom". It's too encapsulated and therefore too confining for a true "thought leader" TM Sarah Lacy - Mattb4rd
@matt4rd...you have it backwards, a global awareness (collective consciousness) only comes from thinking of yourself as large, it is no barrier to uniqueness, in fact awareness of uniqueness is heightened ... one sees what is, not just one's personal box. thought leader and sarah lacy in the same sentence, hmm. cannot respond to that :-) - gregory lent
Asking the question begins that process. I understand where Gregory is coming from in terms of a more mindful approach to it and agree with his perspective, but there may also be a modeling/tech perspective behind your question, that can feed the previous perspective and bring us where we want to be as a society. How do we utilize/pool the experiences and wisdom gained from our lives to benefit each other without repeating the same mistakes in whatever aspect of life is involved. - Brad Nickel
@Gregory The "collective consciousness", albeit insignificant to me personally, only exists so long as there are individual free thinkers to propogate it. I realize that my thinking seems counterintuitive to you and perhaps even to society as a whole. Your characterizations of humankind are akin to a 32 bit Vista install on a machine with 4GB of system memory; restrictive. Lacy used the phrase "thought leadership" at Gnomedex. I have no idea what else she said, really, and it doesn't matter. That phrase made me think. - Mattb4rd
@Mattb4rd - I don't want this to come across as sarcastic, because it is not, but did someone ask you to give up your ability to think as an individual? My point being that your thoughts or thinking brain reacted rather vigorously to something that was not said. It interpreted a threat to its existence that did not exist. I would suggest, that maybe your "ego"/thinking brain wants to stay in "control". I know mine does that all the time. No judgement. Its normal. I don't think Gregory or anyone here expects - Brad Nickel
you to give up you or actually expects anything. Gregory saw a question that he "thinks" could help us get to a better world and existence. I don't know you, but your profile has an image of you playing the guitar. Have you never played with others and things just flowed? Were you able to let go of you centricity to create a more beautiful piece of music with the whole? That is collective consciousness. - Brad Nickel
Sorry to continue the ramble, but collective speaks to a collection of pieces all choosing something for the betterment of the whole. That shouldn't seem threatening, but it does to everyone(me included) despite meaning we retain who we "are". I am a smart guy, why would I give up my brain and my thinking, when I have so much value to add to me, my family, and the world, as me? - Brad Nickel
Excellent points Brad. I especially appreciate the metaphor you employed "greater than the sum of the parts". The phrase "collective consciousness" implies a "containerization" of sorts and although the power of collective effort is real, I resist the notion that the power is attributable to a collective just because it is a collective. Individual free thought and individual responsibility are much more worthy of packaging within a label. - Mattb4rd
consciousness is infinite, means it has no boundaries ... (experiencing where your thoughts come from as they come into awareness is the door to understanding that) ... and/but ... technology is the out-picturing of this boundary-less reality into the 3D world ... we are finding that space and time evaporate, that nothing can be hidden with hyper-connectivity ... and wisdom simply, naturally emerges when everybody can know everything ... this is the "whole being greater than the sum of the parts", revealed - gregory lent
@matt4rd, even scarier, mystics say there is only one mind and the concept of being an individual is an illusion, but we better save that for another day :-) - gregory lent
Wow, navel gazing has spread like wildfire in here. It's just some webapps people. You're killing time chatting with people you've probably never met, not forming a higher mind. - Jason Carreira
@Steven Considering that the last posted one is from like three weeks ago, I'll have completely forgotten all about it by then. Care to share? - Cyndy
@jason carreria .. webapp people are enabling this stuff ... the higher they can see it from, the better will be their products, and if they know where it is going, the products they make will have more chance of success ... it has strategic value to understand consciousness now... and i assume i am speaking to thought leaders such as yourself who care "out of the box". which is what duncan's post is about - gregory lent
The only thing that is hindering us are our minds! If we can go beyond the socially accepted norms and let the Internet and Social Media truly be the conduit of our expressionism, we will achieve the true utopia, even if it is only in virtual space! - Igor The Troll
Every communication medium leads to these "it's going to change how people think and bring us all closer together!" idealistic phases.... The internet has gone through at least 3 of these so far. In the end they fall back into the old patterns of 1 - porn (always drives adoption of new technologies), 2 - business (how do we make money with this), 3 - scams (see also 2), 4 - sharing goofy stories and/or pictures (see also LOLCats), and 5 - religion / self help gurus / hippies (see also 3) - Jason Carreira
You kept breaking the standard joysticks that came with the Atari 2600 - Mark Dykeman
Mona- lol. twice today! we're even :) - Matt Musgrave
you remember waiting anxiously for 24hrs to pass so you could dial-in to your fav BBS and play a game...like Legend of the Red Dragon - Rahsheen(isSoAwesome)
File sharing was something you did in an office... - John Worthington
When you frequently think the kids are going to lose their damn pants if they don't pull them up - and you think to yourself, "Dumbass kids!" - William Harryman
you met your wife on a telnet bbs back before there was a www. - Tad - just Tad
you had a laserdisc player and still have a collection of laserdiscs in your closet because you don't want to throw them out and you can't sell them. - AlexScoble(Robert'sBro)
you could only find pr0n at seedy stores. - Tad - just Tad
You remember when there was music on MTV - Dave Martin
you asked Santa to bring you a hover board for xmas. - Matt Musgrave
if you remember Michael Jackson's jerry curl's catching on fire for the Pepsi shoot!! - Mona N.
when the 'oldies' channel is filled with ALL songs from your childhood. wow - Mona N.
@mona when a phone call had a fixed price for the whole call, no matter how long it took. ;) - Nicole Simon
TV broadcast days ended at midnight with the National Anthem, followed by an NTSC test target pattern, usually including the bust of a Native American leader, and a high-pitched audio-sync tone. The broadcast day would return at 5 AM with the Farm Report. And that was nationwide. - Chris Kim A
@Mona: I first experienced the "internet" with a Vic-20 and a 300 baud modem! Hah! - Nathan Rein
@Alex remember when you had to move the "rabbit ears" on top of your tv? - Michelle Martinez
cigarettes cost $1.25 a pack when you started smoking - Nathan Rein
people asked you if you were a drug dealer for wearing a pager. - Matt Musgrave
you had the first graphing calculator ever made and was the first one to have one in your high school. - AlexScoble(Robert'sBro)
You can remember a time when there was only one Mtv, and it actually played videos. - J. Abdul-Qahhar
Seems like you could replace the main thread title with "You know you are a nerd when ______________" and it would work for most of the comments above, mine especially. :) - AlexScoble(Robert'sBro)
If someone asked you a question you couldn't answer, you had to crack a book to find it - Rahsheen(isSoAwesome)
@Chris Kim A: You just beat me to it. Few things were more disconcerting than falling asleep in front of the late movie and then waking up at 3:00 AM to find the test tone blaring and your arm asleep from being curled up oddly on the sofa. - Derrick Burns
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