Questions..

After living in the present for a while without looking into the future, I finally realize that the speed of future is getting faster and faster and it is hard to not look into it. What is the connection between present and future, and how will it look? What kind of architecture need to be performed and what is the architecture of future? This is the ongoing question I am keep asking myself and trying to find clues.

This is what I know so far. The speed of technological advance is exponential, according to the Moore's law. If this rate continues, it's not going to take that much time to achieve so called singularity in our society.

Compare to 10 years ago, we are way more connected. It is not that hard to go beyond the physical boundary anymore, aided by the networking technology. The faster communication speed creates the collection of intelligence. The limit of capacity of storage is getting bigger and bigger to not to miss any of these changes.

Speed, networking and connection. Exchange of information and communication.... and what kind of environment will this happen? For sure, the notion of architecture and environment will change drastically from static sense to more temporal meaning. How does it operate? How to feed what is happening in virtual world into physical world? and What will happen once we lose the connection to the net?

I don't have answer for any of those, but trying to find answers..

Anti Biodiesel

It's all good that we can save the world by not emitting green house gases in our daily life. Especially in LA - Where the limit of the city sprawled just so much and without cars, living a life is just not possible.

But I want to point out something. Those biodiesel cars... that suppose to burn any vegetable oil from all those restaurants.. I know several people driving biodiesel cars and being really proud of themselves driving biodiesel powered motor vehicle. And I don't blame them, actually I respect them as taking initiative to make our world better by not burning any other fuels that creates pollution. Especially I know that they are one of the people who really cares about the place we live.

I want to blame the one who is using the innocent intention of those who want to make cleaner earth. I know that there's this restriction that it is required to use qualified biodiesel, which is not the vegetable oil from Chinese restaurant. I am little lazy right now to dig up the google to find the specific data of that, because I am on brake from school - so I may not be able to back my self up with the scientific data. But this is as much as I know..

To use qualified bio diesel, which cost above $3.00 / gallon, the user need to go to specific location to fill up their tank. Those biodiesel are provided by specific company which processes / produces the biodiesel from genetically transformed corns grown from land. And I know that to drive certain mileage (as I remember something like 1000 mile), it takes 1acre of land amounts of corn. I already know that the the seeds of the corns are from the big biotech companies like Monsanto - and those are not cheap either..

So those people + government who are trying to control over the alternative energy source... and the idea of getting the energy that requires big agriculture - they are the stuff I am against. Still, I am glad some are trying something else to make things better. Yet, unless there's truly free energy sources and the way of using it is freely available, I don't think it is right way to call it alternative energy source, and there's nothing really cool about it.

By the way, I am also anti green movement. :p

Zeitgeist and conspiracy theory

So, I finally watched this online movie - zeitgeist. It was quite eye opening and well made movie - way beyond my expectation. At the same time, it is hard to believe - that the world is controlled by those few who has access to everything. It has been like that and now it is getting easier with the power of network. First, religion was the tool of manipulation, and now, since people figured it out, money is power of manipulation. and war. and politics. and media...

Ok. The network. The social network. The more connected the more exposed. It is kind of like this spiderweb that the more the bug moves, the more they are trapped. And at the corner, there's this spider waiting to get the dinner. Now, I kind of feel like those social networking stuff is one of the trap. Let's see - facebook is being sold to microsoft. and myspace belongs to some big company that i don't remember the name. Network is an asset and now i think because it is so easy follow the trace of the past and predict the future. Is everything is connected is necessarily good or another tool of manipulation to make people join into this network - otherwise u can't survive.

Be aware - they are watching you. They want to get most out of you. They want to slave you by controlling and creating the illusion that you can't live outside of the system they created. and everything is just coming out of their own greed. like how all of us are. isn't it kind of scary that the strongest always control everything, no matter what? in the end we are all animals. either be a bottom feeder or go along with the flow.....

http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/