How cryptocurrency might incentivise renewables (if they don’t kill us first) Cryptocurrencies as they currently exist have a huge carbon cost compared to their current actual utility. They account for .55% of our global carbon footprint, and while they promise to serve many purposes, right now they use a non-negligible…

This tea is too hot. I’ve had a long day, I have to see my wife tonight, so I’m in a rush and I don’t have time to drink hot tea. I know I’m supposed to write important things down in this journal. But all I can think to write…

Jack — 7th Birthday ‘Hey honey, look who’s up, yes it’s you little sleepy head! Today’s the big day, 7 years old! Come down stairs. Before the party there’s someone I want you to meet.” ‘Are we doing presents now?” …

This year the PHORIA XR team developed the app that delivered the latest PHORIA stereo 180 project, ‘ecosphere’. ‘ecosphere’ is a VR nature documentary that uses world first cameras to shoot at 60 frames per second. …

At PHORIA, we think a lot about how communication will look with spatial computing. We ask, what will the vocabulary of the future be? We think that people won’t just communicate with words or images, but whole environments. …

Intelligence, as far as we know, is the result of a network’s interactions — a series of interconnected nodes that pass information back and forth. Our own neural networks do this to reach complex states and solve problems. These patterns create the appearance of thought and the sense of will…

I cradle my drink, or at least the analogue of it. I haven’t really been able to ‘drink’ anything in the traditional sense for the past three thousand years, but that’s why I come here. They map you at the door and simulate your memetic concept of a relaxant. To…

Richard sipped nervously at his seven-eleven coffee. He sat on a bench, watching the trams rattle down the center of Bourke Street, filled with people with somewhere to go. He’d like to be preparing for his interview inside a warm cafe. …

We humans require a few things to survive. Food, shelter, warmth, water. As society has developed, there has been increasing layers of abstraction between our actions, and these core needs. To service these needs, we’ve built static, unsustainable networks that rob us of accountability and agency over our own survival…