http://www.futurehi.net/ Your Community for Visionary Art, Culture, Science and Spirituality. Seeking to create a joyous, infinitely expanding future; Future Hi is an online community exploring the frontiers of higher intelligence, accelerating technology, anthropological exodus, utopian dreams, trance, autonomy, imagination and logic. en-us dale@futurehi.net Primarily Public Domain http://www.futurehi.net/ http://www.futurehi.net/images/icon_8circuit.jpg February 24, 2009 12:15 PM dale@inquisitorbetrayer.com 2009-01-30T19:06:11-08:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.futurehi.net/archives/000884.html Donation Time It is that time again. I wish to thank all who have donated recently, past and future. I do need your continued support to keep the site afloat. Anything, any amount. You can do this via the paypal button on the page or contact me. If you can not donate, drop a line, comment, post in the forum, a good will note in... 884@http://www.futurehi.net/ Announcements 2009-01-30T19:06:11-08:00 http://www.futurehi.net/archives/000883.html Dear Future Hi Readers, As many of you know I founded Future Hi five years ago as way of creating a community around a shared visionary culture. During it's first two years the site became very popular with around 10,000 readers a day. It was a very productive and fun time at Future Hi, with prolific, often playful meditations on the frontiers of consciousness,... 883@http://www.futurehi.net/ Announcements 2009-01-30T06:05:23-08:00 http://www.futurehi.net/archives/000876.html Hi everyone. I"m not sure if anyone is still out there checking on the 'blog' portion of Future Hi. Looks like the discussions have moved wholesale into the forums area. For those of you interested, I finally am back on the net with a new personal website and blog. The blog consolidates all of my online writings up to date, including all of my future... 876@http://www.futurehi.net/ Announcements 2009-01-05T10:15:48-08:00 http://www.futurehi.net/archives/000882.html Childhood's End, A Tribute to Arthur C. Clarke I thought I just make a short announcement A rather cool video can be found at http://www.youtube.com/user/childhoodsendtribute it contains one of the tracks that will be on the double CD. Steve Ballard is the sound track creator. His youtube which has a few more of his works is at http://www.youtube.com/user/KCLion also http://www.sballard.com/ The release is this Month,... 882@http://www.futurehi.net/ Music 2008-07-08T16:57:03-08:00 http://www.futurehi.net/archives/000881.html Yep, it's a on going thing to keep the site running, get funds in to pay the hosting and other things. I do wish to thank all who have donated. Those funds will be added to the cans I collect in the name of Future Hi. I kid you naught! With Gas being so high, everything going up, those cans I see on the side... 881@http://www.futurehi.net/ Announcements 2008-06-25T15:34:44-08:00 http://www.futurehi.net/archives/000880.html It's Open House for Future Hi Forums. Anyone can peek at the forums and read the posts. No login required. However, if you wish to post to one of the topics you will need to register. It's painless to register. You will need a valid email address and answer all the required questions. dale... 880@http://www.futurehi.net/ Announcements 2008-05-14T19:39:40-08:00 http://www.futurehi.net/archives/000879.html We will take the site down, including the forums, this Saturday in memory of Arthur C. Clarke. A special web page will be shown in place of the all mighty 404 error. We will resume normal day to day Sunday. dale... 879@http://www.futurehi.net/ Announcements 2008-03-20T13:53:32-08:00 http://www.futurehi.net/archives/000878.html Many active forums with active debates are found at Future Hi's Forums. You can get there by clicking forums at the top menus. You will need to register to view them. Be sure to use a current email as you will be asked to confirm registration. dale... 878@http://www.futurehi.net/ Community 2008-03-12T09:48:38-08:00 http://www.futurehi.net/archives/000877.html Donations are needed Donations are needed to keep the blog and forums up and running. This year we are running very short on cash to pay the bills. Please donate. How can you donate? See the “make a donation” button near the bottom of the page or note the send a PM to the owner in the forum. dale... 877@http://www.futurehi.net/ Announcements 2008-03-06T16:06:56-08:00 http://www.futurehi.net/archives/000875.html Space exploration has become a topic of interest in U.S. presidential debates for the first time in over 40 years. Seventeen individuals are running for president in the two major parties' primaries. 875@http://www.futurehi.net/ Space 2008-01-02T15:15:07-08:00 http://www.futurehi.net/archives/000874.html I am a long time donator and many system set up to run the @ home program to process the data. I am also one of the owners of the SETI Tech Desk a Yahoo group (SETI_techdesk@yahoogroups.com). Here is a copy of a email. dale Copy as follows ( Donate to SETI@home at: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sah_donate.php ) Dear kay-net, The SETI@home team has achieved much progress in... 874@http://www.futurehi.net/ Science 2007-12-12T15:08:08-08:00 http://www.futurehi.net/archives/000873.html If you've been following the technology news cycle, Google announced their intention to bid on the new 700mhz spectrum opened up from the closure of old TV airwaves. As part of this bid Google also announced it will create a totally open, neutral network that anyone can use with with any compatible wireless device. This move was a total salvo at the Telco's, and... 873@http://www.futurehi.net/ Technology 2007-12-09T10:50:33-08:00 http://www.futurehi.net/archives/000872.html http://youtube.com/watch?v=G6CVj5IQkzk 872@http://www.futurehi.net/ Consciousness 2007-12-03T12:13:57-08:00 http://www.futurehi.net/archives/000871.html On the other hand, we mustn’t be dogmatic about group selection always being an unworkable or outdated idea. If music did have individual-level benefits, such as courtship benefits under sexual selection, then it may be possible for group selection to reinforce those individual benefits with group benefits. Under this model of group selection, there would be no necessary tension between the individual and group levels... 871@http://www.futurehi.net/ Consciousness 2007-07-17T19:50:22-08:00 http://www.futurehi.net/archives/000870.html Geoffrey F. Miller Centre for Economic Learning and Social Evolution University College London Gower St., London, WC1E 6BT, England geoffrey.miller@ucl.ac.uk Published as: Miller, G. F. (2000). Evolution of human music through sexual selection. In N. L. Wallin, B. Merker, & S. Brown (Eds.), The origins of music, MIT Press, pp. 329-360. Introduction: A Darwinian approach to music evolution “... it appears probable that the progenitors... 870@http://www.futurehi.net/ Consciousness 2007-07-17T19:41:43-08:00