Tag: Evolution

The Evolution of Sharing

By Chris Arkenberg

08.16.10, 7:21am Comments (1)

Sharing isn't unique to humans but we seem to do it a lot more than any other mammals. Read more »

The Evolution Will Not be Individualized

By Jeremy Adam Smith

06.08.10, 12:21pm Comments (23)

I've been thinking about how the two most recent contributions to the Shareable Futures series -- the Q&A with author Paolo Bacigalupi and Vinay Gupta's "The Unplugged" -- stress social change as an accumulation of individual de. Read more »

New Study: Chimps Recognize Unfairness

By Jeremy Adam Smith

04.14.10, 4:02pm Comments (0)

New Scientist reports:

Chimps recognise unfairness, even when it involves individuals other than themselves. This sense of unfairness towards others may be a rudimentary form of the social justice that characterises human societies. Read more »

Bruce Sterling: State of the Spime

By Jeremy Adam Smith

04.06.10, 3:34pm Comments (1)

In his 2005 nonfiction book Shaping Things, the science-fiction novelist Bruce Sterling predicts the development of a technology he calls "spimes," which would, essentially, embed a story in every object and link all objects to each other. Read more »

Stickybits, Spimes, and Sharing

By Jeremy Adam Smith

03.15.10, 1:24pm Comments (2)

Erik Hopp, the web dude who mainly built Shareable.net, loaned me a book that is taking over my mind. It's called Shaping Things, by the science-fiction novelist Bruce Sterling, and it came out in 2005. Read more »

Animation: The Life and Times of Charlotte, NC

By Jeremy Adam Smith

03.12.10, 10:04am Comments (0)

In nine minutes, artist Rob Carter reveals hundreds (thousands?) of years in the life of Charlotte, North Carolina, from emergence to quietly apocalyptic disappearance. Read more »

Improvisational Theater as Complex Adaptive System

By Michelle James

03.11.10, 10:02am Comments (2)

I am in an improvisational theater performing group. We improvise full-length plays with nothing planned in advance. No structure. No outline. No character or plot development. Read more »

New Study: Bonobos Share Like Humans

By Jeremy Adam Smith

02.16.10, 9:39am Comments (0)

From today's ScienceDaily:

New research suggests that the act of voluntarily sharing something with another may not be entirely exclusive to the human experience. Read more »

Fritjof Capra on Shareable Leadership

By Jeremy Adam Smith

10.16.09, 12:34pm Comments (0)

“Nature nurtures life through communities,” said physicist and bestselling author Fritjof Capra. “This is a process that started with the first single-celled organisms. Read more »

What I Learned About Evolution at Burning Man

By Neal Gorenflo

10.01.09, 9:25am Comments (2)

“How was your burn?”
This is the standard question one burner asks another once Burning Man is over. The question reflects how individual the experience can be—and how hard it is to summarize. Read more »