Bonnie DeVarco

California

Connective Intelligence, Global Consciousness, universal symbols, compassion, sacred sites, Buckminster Fuller

Exploring the emergence of Visualization Convergence for Collective, Connective, Distributed Intelligence, I am a writer, researcher, archivist, futurist and curator for the mirror worlds of Cyberspace and Earth.

Bonnie's Websites

http://scaleindependentthought.typepad.com

http://www.mediatertia.com

http://www.porcelainia.com

http://shapeofthought.typepad.com

http://mediax.stanford.edu

Bonnie's Interests

Building a Whole Systems Macroscope, mirror neurons, medieval history, Renaissance, Albrecht Durer, Boethius, Isidore of Seville, epigenetics, geospatial visualization, history, ancient manuscripts, megalithic complex, sustainability, geovisualization, information visualization, symbolic anthropology, virtual worlds, ecological solutions, ancient science, artificial life, Hypatia, Leonardo da Vinci, vintage futurism, visual language, scripts, alphabets, green design, self organizing intelligence, The Geospatial Semantic Web, multiple intelligences, symmetry, buckminsterfullerene, quasiperiodicity, islamic tilings, cryptology, library of Alexandria, Archimedes, Pythagoras, spheres, polyhedra, Coxeter, neoplatonism, Keith Critchlow, clathrin, emiliania, geoscope, planetarium, history of World Expositions, symbols, global brain as a quantum organism, Ramon Llull, sacred sites, somnia, Dymaxion, Dalai Lama, emerging technologies, triskelion, ancient artifacts, social brain, omnisentient universe, Buckminster Fuller, nanotechnology

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Antikythera Mechanism Relighting Demonstration
The Antikythera Mechanism is an ancient astronomical computer built by the Greeks around 80 B.C. It was found on a shipwreck by sponge divers in 1900, and its exact function still eludes scholars to this day. In September, 2005, as part of the Antikythera Research Project, we were able to access ...

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YouTube - Antikythera mechanism working model.mov
Curator Michael Wright shows off his model of the Antikythera mechanism. The Antikythera mechanism is an ancient Greek clockwork machine found in a shipwreck, that has taken more than a century to decipher. Wright's handmade reconstruction is the first to include all the known features of this ...

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Decoding The Heavens | Jo Marchant | Home
The Book In 1900 a group of sponge divers blown off course in the Mediterranean discovered an Ancient Greek shipwreck dating from around 70 BC. Lying unnoticed for months amongst their hard-won haul was what appeared to be a formless lump of corroded rock. It turned out to be the most stunning ...

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YouTube - Tom Wujec demos the 13th-century astrolabe
http://www.ted.com Rather than demo another new technology, Tom Wujec reaches back to one of our earliest but most ingenious devices -- the astrolabe. With thousands of uses, from telling time to mapping the night sky, this old tech reminds us that the ancient can be as brilliant as the brand-new.

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UC San Diego Develops 3D NexCAVE With JVC Monitors,
The California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) has developed an immersive visualization system, NexCAVE, a micropolarized panel-based 3D cave automatic virtual environment. The new NexCAVE immersive visualization system developed by Calit2 uses JVC ...

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