n more than 100 languages. “When Holland chose the word ‘complex,’ he was making an important distinction. Complicated mechanisms can be designed, predicted, and controlled. Jet engines, artificial hearts, and your calculator are complicated in this sense. They may contain billions of interacting parts, but they can be laid out and repeatedly, predictably made and used. They don’t change. Complex systems, by contrast, can’t be so precisely engineered. They are hard to fully control. Human immunology is complex in this sense. The World Wide Web is complex. A rain forest is complex: It is made up of uncountable buzzing, connecting bugs and birds and trees. Order, to the extent that it exists in the Amazon basin, emerges moment by moment from countless, constant interactions. The uneven symphonic sound of l’heure bleue, that romantic stopping point at dawn when you can hear a forest waking bird by bird, is the sound of complexity engaging in a never-the-same-twice phase transition.” Joshua Cooper Ramo - The Seventh SenseAs Kishore Mahbubani has himself in[DEED] proposed: THE GOAL of Machiavelli was to PROMOTE VIRTUE NOT EVIL
IF the west chooses to adopt a wiser strategy of [BE]ing
MINIMALIST, MULTI-LATERAL and MACHAVELLIAN, then
the rest of the world will be happy to WORK with THE WEST
A GREAT FUTURE lies ahead for HUMANITY let's embrace
[IT] TOGETHER.…
The Buckminster Fuller Institute is carrying Bucky’s work
forward through educating and catalysing the community
that will lead the DESIGN SCIENCE REVOLUTION.
x, Hypertalk enabled anyone to combine text, graphics, and audio quickly into “linked stacks” that could be navigated by clicking with a mouse on standard buttons supplied by the program. Hypertalk was particularly popular among American educators in the 1980s and early ’90s for classroom multimedia presentations. Although Hypertalk had many features of object-oriented programming, Apple did not develop it for other computer platforms and let it languish; as Apple’s market share declined in the 1990s, a new cross-platform way of displaying multimedia left Hypertalk all but obsolete.
David Hemmendinger
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practice led by manuel bouzas and santiago del aguila, the project takes shape as a monumental lamp that radically transforms the 17th-century building through light and color. with a height of more than six meters and a surface area of 55 sqm, the translucent installation becomes a vibrant vessel of light at nighttime, emitting hues that overflow the boundaries of the monastery and reache the street. …
a civil liberties watchdog has found. Neither the House of Commons nor the
European Parliament has been consulted over the development of EU unmanned aerial vehicles
(UAVs) which are being designed to police Europe's skies on law enforcement missions.
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