THIS "fusion motor" dreamcatcher,
which spins in our kitchen at home, IS symbolic
of the "dual " bottom-up, top-down processes
of the BIG PICTURE, acting in unison as ONE
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s problem -- the Transition response, where we prepare ourselves for life without oil and sacrifice our luxuries to build systems and communities that are completely independent of fossil fuels.
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Added by Michael Grove at 15:58 on November 30, 2010
rything else, as a result of having access to the most eclectic and comprehensively stocked modern Library that one could wish for, such that IDEAS• about how to take an actual Austin 7 to pieces and to find out how [IT] worked then re-build it and subsequently design a basic electronic calculator system to store the number of parts, by way of the actual construction of a valve driven electronic calculating machine - that was almost as tall as the Austin 7 • just flowed off the page so to speak, in concert with a broad range of other reading material including the Monthly edition of Design Magazine, following the launch of the Design Centre in Haymarket, London which we subsequently visited as Art Students.
FROM SMALL ACORNS - LARGE OAKS GROW AS THE DEW FALLS FROM THE LEAVES, SO DOES COMMITMENT TO ENLIGHTENMENT ….BUT THE DEW WILL RISE AGAIN TOMORROW
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rn, Hopper helped to design some of the chips for the BBC Micro. When Acorn was acquired by Olivetti in 1985, Hauser became vice-president for research at Olivetti, in which role he co-founded the Olivetti Research Laboratory in 1986 with Hopper; Hopper became its managing director.
In 1985, after leaving Acorn, Hopper co-founded Qudos, a company producing CAD software and doing chip prototyping. He remained a director until 1989.
In 1993, Andy Hopper set up Advanced Telecommunication Modules Ltd [ATM] with Hermann Hauser. This company went public on the NASDAQ as Virata in 1999. The company was acquired by Conexant Systems on 1 March 2004.
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