What is your Holy Land?

Everyone has their own curse…and they’re fighting against it…so that they can be free.

— Quote from Holyland

18 May 2012

Big Dreams About the Next 100 Years

“One hundred years from now, the role of science and technology will be about becoming part of nature rather than trying to control it.

So much of science and technology has been about pursuing efficiency, scale and “exponential growth” at the expense of our environment and our resources. We have rewarded those who invent technologies that control our triumph over nature in some way. This is clearly not sustainable.

We must understand that we live in a complex system where everything is interrelated and interdependent and that everything we design impacts a larger system.

My dream is that 100 years from now, we will be learning from nature, integrating with nature and using science and technology to bring nature into our lives to make human beings and our artifacts not only zero impact but a positive impact to the natural system that we live in.”

-Joi Ito, Director of MIT’s Media Lab

Read this and the visions of other great minds as part of Steelcase’s 100-year anniversary look at the century ahead.

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devidsketchbook:

“Private Moon” by Leonid Tishkov & Boris Bendikov

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girlinboyclothes:

“Before our white brothers arrived to make us civilized men, we didn’t have any kind of prison. Because of this, we had no delinquents. Without a prison, there can be no delinquents. We had no locks nor keys and therefore among us there were no thieves.When someone was so poor that he couldn’t afford a horse, a tent or a blanket, he would, in that case, receive it all as a gift. We were too uncivilized to give great importance to private property. We didn’t know any kind of money and consequently, the value of a human being was not determined by his wealth. We had no written laws laid down, no lawyers, no politicians, therefore we were not able to cheat and swindle one another.We were really in bad shape before the white men arrived and I don’t know how to explain how we were able to manage without these fundamental things that (so they tell us) are so necessary for a civilized society.” — John (Fire) Lame Deer, Sioux Lakota, 1903-1976.

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thisistheverge:

ZeroN magnetic levitation system can play back movements in space

Researchers at the MIT Media Lab have developed a rather remarkable device known as ZeroN — a “tangible interface element” that can levitate and move within a three-dimensional space.

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ruineshumaines:

El Salto Angel (by Inti)

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I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

— Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird. (via ruineshumaines)

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staceythinx:

Japanese artist Mika Aoki uses the ethereal quality of glass to get us to look differently at subjects like viruses, reproduction and the origins of life.

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theartofanimation: