In the first half of this week's show and tell Annie Spencer will present recent developments of her passion project Spiritual Media: One Pilgrim's Progress, which is focused on behaviors mediated and driven by human-spiritual motivations, and the emergence of new belief systems in digital networks.

Due to extended discussions and time constraints in last week's show and tell, we will be holding the cooperative exploration of “Creative Clusters & Convergence” in the second half of this weeks show and tell. As a reminder, the goal of this exploration is to identify key questions and discussion points for an upcoming charette being held at the Centre for Social Innovation.

The thesis of this project begins with what it means to be a human living amongst other humans in the natural world and what it will take to continue doing so.

Here's a synopsis of my project (it's a little more than a paragraph, sorry):

I found this story last night, and found it apropos to yesterday's presentations and my current project. It is a paraphrase, as best I can remember, of an excerpt from The Gold Bug Variations by Richard Powers. Enjoy!