round changes from brown to green. Pretty soon wild-flowers are everywhere.
Again, no rain for a few months, and all the vegetation withers away, but we know that the seeds are still there – waiting for the next cycle to start up.
The potential of the ‘seed’, is given prominence as the eye of the Tao. Yet, for humans and for most animals, the seed that represents our next generation are but cells in our body that are invisible to the naked eye. Hence, as we diagram the Tao in this dual oscillation model, the eye can be thought of as vanishingly small, and invisible on the surface.
Debashis Chowdhury
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oposed natural selection, he faced at least as much resistance as Wegener; although his theory explained myriad observations, nobody had actually seen finches evolving. Likewise, the effects of our own collective activity—such as climate change and loss of biodiversity—are almost invisible to us, because the impact spans the whole planet, growing over centuries. Like plate tectonics and evolution, the arrival of the Anthropocene epoch is not a human-scale phenomenon. Buckminster Fuller conceived the Geoscope as a tool to help humans attain a global perspective, to see worldwide events and to probe geological time. It was to be an instrument for scoping Earth’s patterns—an instrument of comprehensive anticipatory design science. And though it was never built adjacent to the United Nations, he always carried one in his head. In order to anticipate comprehensively, the present-day design scientist must do as he did. Design scientists must be sensitive to natural patterns of change and human patterns of activity, extrapolating from fragmentary evidence. In the Anthropocene, these patterns will be interrelated. And since human activity is the driving force, they not only can be observed but also can be impacted. However, patterns must be detected before they become settled, before the consequences are foregone conclusions. Unlike Wegener and Darwin, the design scientist cannot be passive. There” Jonathan Keats, You Belong to the Universe: Buckminster Fuller and the Future
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Added by Michael Grove at 23:01 on February 14, 2019
es! Banish
the word struggle from your attitude and your
vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a
sacred manner and in celebration. We are the
ones that we have been waiting for. The Elders - Hopi Nation
THE FS4D EVOLUTION of THE TOWER of BA'BEL ...
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n and the reality. My vision, at that time, identified more with the "brown-stone" buildings of New York and the digital television watch of Dick Tracey than the "1984" scenario painted by George Orwell. Later in life when questioned as to my thoughts on "the simulation of the reality " and of a possible definition thereof - I often retorted that, by use of the ‘ideal system', "one would be able to jump off the white cliffs of Dover and walk away after the experience, without a scratch, but being a completely different person as a result of the experience." They all replied, as do some today, that I was in need of a frontal lobotomy.
Never forgetting that Lord Bamford pulled JCB out of the CBI business lobby group in 2016 over its anti-Brexit stance, and in 2017 called it a “waste of time”
• so just spare a moment or two to think about how much the
process of imagination must have been employed during the
establishment and continued longevity of the business of JCB.
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Added by Michael Grove at 18:16 on September 28, 2019
the milestones reached in the last year alone have been exceptional.
DeepMind, the British AI company owned by Google, has defeated the world champion at Go, the ancient game that requires a finely-tuned sense of intuition to master. Driverless cars now seem like an inevitability rather than a curiosity. Error rates on image recognition technology have dropped from 25pc in 2011 to less than 4pc.
AI is graduating from theory and academic papers to everyday life. If the last 10 years has been defined by the plummeting costs of microprocessors and sensors that have made smartphones a commodity product, the future is about building intelligent systems that can make them more powerful.
Ergo, the companies that will profit might not be the ones with expertise in hardware design, but those who can build software that talks back.
The missing name here is Apple. The undisputed victor of the smartphone-building wars, in profit and influence if not quite in market share, Apple’s expertise when it comes to AI is less clear.
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roject, if I would be happy to give a presentation of my system to some senior members of IBM who are major sponsors of Oxford University and the Press; and so it was arranged for me to do so during an annual event of Senior IBM Staff and their wives, visiting Oxford, the University and the Press, for a week, such that the wives could do their shopping and visit the sites, whilst the IBMers were provided with various tours and a representative update Presentation of the latest happenings, concerning the use of technology and the Oxford English Dictionary • OED. So it was on the day that having first been introduced to the concept of Systems Analysis on an IBM 64K Mainframe during my training as an Upper Airspace Area Radar Controller, I provided a demonstration of the Technology behind the Volcano Videodisc Project, which as it happens was the self same early development technology which Tim Berners Lee later utilised for creating the HyperText Transition Protocol on which the launch and development of the INTERNET is based. I can only imagine that they were all pretty impressed because of the hand clapping and the extensive question and answer dialogue which then pursued. …
pass
through the day, we age and gain experience. When
we tire at day's end, we 'die' and take our rest.
That one arc justly serves as a miniature of
our entire life."
- ZEN 24/7
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Added by Michael Grove at 17:14 on September 19, 2012
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The southern city of Mykolaiv also faced repeated shelling, which triggered fires near a medical facility, destroying a shipment of humanitarian aid containing medicines and food.
Analysts warned that the continuing fighting could threaten the grain deal, making clients nervous.
“The danger remains: The Odesa region has faced constant shelling and only regular supplies could prove the viability of the agreements signed,” said Volodymyr Sidenko, an expert with the Kyiv-based Razumkov Center think-tank.
“The departure of the first vessel doesn’t solve the food crisis, it’s just the first step that could also be the last if Russia decides to continue attacks in the south.”
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However, the most spectacular threat is the one faced by the planet’s coral reefs which provide habitats for thousand of species. Planetary heating of 1.5C will see between 70 and 90% of coral reefs disappear. At 2C, 99% will be destroyed.
No more gas or coal
Hopes were raised at Cop27 that serious reductions could be made in humanity’s burning of coal, gas and oil, the major causes of climate change. This optimism sprang from India’s call for fossil fuel burning to phased down – though not phasing out, it should be noted. But the proposal has not led to major follow ups and the issue has not yet been resolved.
“It’s now about damage limitation,” said Professor Richard Betts of the UK Met Office. “We should all still work much harder to reduce emissions urgently to keep further heating of the planet as low as possible while also adapting to the changes we have already caused.”…
Added by Michael Grove at 11:28 on November 22, 2022
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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