The duality of a society with less and less attention finding the time to consume large bits of detailed information is not so surprising, as modern times find niche markets victorious. Looking to be (more…)
Digital Inheritance, & Sentiment Analysis to build biographer’s depictions of a dead soul.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/04/09/300614977/the-new-age-leaving-behind-everything-or-nothing-at-all This talks about your “digital inheritance”, how people used to burn letters to (more…)
We’re nothing but products or commodities. Humanity is dead. Long live humanity!
A friend of mine nailed why I have been depressed lately, about the nature of friends, relationships, business, and how they all coalesce in social media: I feel like a huge walking $ Dollar sign. And (more…)
Disparate thoughts – tech & losing our humanity, pressures of “stuff”, meaning/purpose & Moby Dick, Jefferson’s re-constitution, & Michio’s migration to a parallel universe
1) Studying attention & memory as it is effected by the technology & pace of modern culture. Being off-grid & in nature repairs our tech-hysteria & dependence: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/16/technology/16brain.html?_r=0 2) (more…)
The Power of Adobe Photoshop, and a Plastic Vision of the Future Singularity… Augmented Humans seeking perfection.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/lifestyle/2013/10/watch-as-woman-goes-from-average-to-fabulous-in-37-seconds/ That video is nutso, because we’ve actually created a human image that doesn’t exist, and (more…)
Why I stopped using a Smartphone, and went back to a flip phone.
Well…. it’s like this (I will keep it simple): I fiddled with my phone constantly. I enjoy Twitter, but for the most part, 15 minutes past my due date in a bathroom stall, I would query (more…)
More on privacy, transparency, accountability, & the 21st century decimating antiquated systems (& insane info about 4th Amendment)
The 4th Amendment doesn’t extend to 3rd party agreements. Privacy is a trick and diversion. Let’s talk about civil liberties before they’re gone, as well.
Broken Systems – watching the current rough seas of the 20th century from the shores of the 21st.
It’s not just NY. It’s cities, governments, and the systems firmly entrenched in the 20th century. It’s painful to watch – these broken systems haven’t been able to yoke themselves to the steam engine (more…)
Why Flavorwire’s Tom Hawking completely misses the point about Daft Punk’s “Random Access Memories”
That’s *EXACTLY* why Giorgio is on there… there isn’t much to do but revisit the roots, at this point. Unless the author suggest more dubstep bass squishes under *literally* deafening treble scratches & sirens??
So… look to the past. Enjoy the past. Look to our history to protect the future. Huxley had some opinions about that: “That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”
So check some of this out. That’s the point of this review. Dig deep little archivists. It’s time to take a note from another album and move backwards towards your future discovery.
Detecting Baloney – the need for development of critical thought & honing our collective faculties….
The Economist is asking why people believe in nonsense. Well I will tell you: Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman, and others have known it for years: We need to teach critical thought to young people, (more…)