The origins of tablets, collective intelligence and the metaphor of the end of the world.

Nowmov uses the "collective intelligence of the masses to watch the most popular videos and content on the Internet in real-time." Here I am in front of the screen waiting to be amazed. After three minutes, Nowmov's collective intelligence invades my neuronal activity.
An advertsing for Motorola presents the evolution of tablet. It starts with the Egyptian hieroglyphic tablet 3200 BC explaining that weight it makes it difficult for portability.



And here is the moment when the collective intelligence discovers in my memory, with a typical tangential move , the origins of tablet. Not the evolution , but the origins.

5300 BC Transylvania

TARTARIA TABLETS

The Tărtăria tablets are three tablets, known since the late 19th century excavation at the Neolithic site of Turdaş in Transylvania, Romania, by Zsófia Torma, which date to around 5300 BC.They bear incised symbols, the Vinča signs, that have been the subject of considerable controversy among archaeologists, some of whom claim that the symbols represent the earliest known form of writing in the world.
Two of the tablets are rectangular and the third is round. They are all small, the round one being only 6 cm (2½ in) across, and two—one round and one rectangular—have holes drilled through them.
As RevezNexus, a very good twitter friend , mentioned last night, Dracula was a happy man :)

Result: very portable



Nothing is new on Earth, it seems that we write the future with the DNA of the past. We don't have to exclude the fact that maybe thousands of years ago, on Earth, a very advanced civilization has disappeared during a catastrophic event. The survivors have succeded to create a new world. Maybe this is a scifi scenario, maybe not. I wrote months ago on my IO.1 blog The Missing Link : What if "The Road" continues with "Cave of Forgotten Dreams.", a post that is questioning the same dilema.

Now we we have the chance to create a new world without destroying the old one. We have the chance to learn from our mistakes and to open a new era for the whole humanity.

So I would advice all the tablets brands to create an entire documentary about the evolution and origins of tablet. It can be a wonderful recognition for the human innovation and also an inspiration for the new generation of collective intelligence .

The end of the world is close, prepare to be amazed of the new one...

The Electronic Tattoo of Adam's Grandsons

Past

Cucuteni Culture
Washington, September 23 (ANI): An exhibition in the Vatican, which is displaying hundreds of artifacts, has suggested that the mysterious Neolithic people made optical art.
According to a report in Discovery News, the exhibition, which is being held at the Palazzo della Cancelleria in the Vatican, introduces a mysterious Neolithic people who are now believed to have forged Europe’’s first civilization. Archaeologists have named these people “Cucuteni-Trypillians” after the villages of Cucuteni, near Lasi, Romania and Trypillia, near Kiev, Ukraine, where the first discoveries of this ancient civilization were made more than 100 years ago.
The excavated treasures - fired clay statuettes and op art-like pottery dating from 5000 to 3000 B.C. - immediately posed a riddle to archaeologists.
“We do not know the meaning of those painted symbols, and what is the significance of those zoomorphic and anthropomorphic statuettes. Everything seems to be wrapped in mystery."
The Neolithic buildings often featured walls and ceilings decorated with drawings painted in black and red. Inside, the houses were filled with pottery and statuettes whose quasi-modern design has become the Cucuteni-Trypillians’’s most identifiable trademark.
This unique artistic production, dominated by repeating lines, circles and spirals, amazingly echoes modern op art, also known as optical art, which is a genre of visual that makes use of geometric shapes and optical illusions.
The unusual art offers the best glimpse into this mysterious civilization. None of the enigmatic statuettes seem fearsome or fearful. The rare male statuettes have faces often covered by masks, while the abundant female statuettes are gracious and mask-free, with tattooed bodies and long feet. There are no chained slaves or sacrificial figures - a sign of a rather egalitarian culture, according to historians. The pottery’’s obsessive spiral and circle patterns could also help explain another strange feature of this culture.

Adam's Grandsons. An unique ancient form of art: painting pottery 6000 years ago still has misteries to uncover. An excelent documentary directed by my friend, Mihai Bauman.

Remembering the future - The Electronic Tattoo
Tattoos and physical mutilation are amongst the oldest forms of personal expression and identity. Subcultures have used tattoos as a form of self representation; a visual language communicating personality and status. Philips Design examined the growing trend of extreme body adornment like tattoos, piercing, implants and scarring .
The Electronics Tattoo film expresses the visual power of sensitive technology applied to the human body. The film subtly leads the viewer through the simultaneous emotional and aesthetic transformations between two lovers.