Time and space. Why is it so obvious in hindsight? Similar to his paintings of haystacks and water lilies, Monet spent a lot of time thinking about light…
These thoughts have been prompted by technical analysis, social evaluations, political observations and philosophical insights of others:
Growth, Innovation, Scaling, and the Pace of Life in Cities, by…
Reading a great book this morning, The Nature of Technology, by Brian Arthur. Simultaneously been having discussions with Mike Harrold on the nature of conspiracies, in light of…
a prediction about the future:
knowledge gained about complex system behavior makes moral obligations obsolete by 2070
moral obligations are represented by the thinking that “one should…
Prompted by Mike Harrold’s post on Facebook: Max Weber’s “Protestant Ethic”, which in turn was prompted by an article in the New Yorker: Why Work?.
To begin,…
Union picketing in Chicago, 2007
CAPITALISM versus COMMUNISM.
we don’t live in a binary world, let’s put Karl Marx and Adam Smith behind us. Our challenge begins with recognizing…
From a seminar at the Santa Fe Institute, 1995:
“Robotics and biotechnology will grow exponentially in the next 50 years.” Indeed, many homes now have robotic vacuum cleaners….
I first came across this idea in a Wired Magazine article in 1997.
Basically, aside from being the worlds reserve currency, the US Dollar is worthless. So…
Abstract
This paper sets forth a Human Interest Diagram which is used to analyze the relationship between work, professions, society and meaning in people’s lives. It then uses…