The summer heat was torching in the camp, but we wouldn’t have exchanged it for the comfort of our parents’ air-conditioned apartments. I was 18, between high school and college, still living with my parents. …

Best of times, worst of times — “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was…

Published originally in The FUTURE of COMMUNICATIONS, NEC, 1989 — The evolution of life on Earth does more than simply find a way of prolonging itself in us along the line of its earlier expression: like one of those multiple-stage rockets, it is now visibly starting a fresh forward leap, with a directive mechanism and a power of penetration that are…

I am a member of a research community called RADAR, drawing on the collective intelligence of 300+ researchers, strategists, futurists, and innovators. We’ve just launched a new cycle of research, temporarily titled A Centaur Future, inspired by this juicy story, How To Become A Centaur. My memories of a distant…

From Tantra to Apple II — He was a hardware hacker who built his computers from parts that he found at Radio Shack and who knows where. His curiosity led him to strange places, like my Tantric meditation workshop. …

Sitting at a small table in Van Gogh’s bedroom, I sought to calm my troubled heart to no avail. …

Journey through phases of a spontaneous ceremony in the morning — As the last shreds of the morning dream float away, my attention is discovering being alive in a body. I let it leisurely wander in it and marvel at its myriads of mysteries… I am grateful for life ~ The joy of that experience feeds my curiosity: where am I…

All day long, the flickering electrons on the screen form letters, words, and sentences conveying mental meanings… since early morning. It’s 5 pm and the Sun is winking at me through the South window of my writing den, inviting me: “Come out and play.” Out from the house, I step…

No, AI doesn’t have human-like attention and I doubt it will ever have, but my life taught me never say “never.” The point is to have an open and inquisitive mind about that subject and, more importantly, how the two types of attention may affect each other. Those who read…