THE SPiRALogic of a SYSTEMS MINDSET

[Michael Grove]

     UNIVERSES have been created when the FEMININE PRINCIPLE was

     unleashed but they have been created only when this was ignited and

     balanced with the MASCULINE PRINCIPLE.

     For centuries on our planet, the feminine principle has been thwarted,

     making it difficult for either men or women to EXERT their FULL HUMAN

     POTENTIAL. Cultures, societies, individuals, sexes and institutions have

     ALL participated in suppressing the feminine principle. As a result, 

     creation has been stifled and destruction looms at every turn.

     The aggression from the masculine principle has thrown ALL THINGS

     out of balance, leaving the peoples of our planet to wander aimlessly

     until the power can be restored.

     In the context of Arianna Huffington's statement that: “If you didn’t

     care at all about people and you just cared about the deficit, this is just

     a stupid way to go about it. It doesn’t work. Austerity does not lead to

     deficit reduction. That we are continuing not to look at the facts, to

     me is stunning. It is the definition of insanity”

     ... and Leyla Acaroglu proposal in this series on systems thinking,
     in which she shares the key insights and tools needed to develop and

     advance a systems mindset for dealing with complex problem solving

     and transitioning to the Circular Economy

     I would conclude that these two qualitatively purposeful goals,

     in concert with that of Riane Eisler's understanding of the fact that

     "We can’t wait for our national and international leaders to act.

     Every one of us can be a leader by using our imagination and

     initiative to change consciousness, practices, and policies" ...

        ... which [RE]present a fibonacci trilogy of females • who have most

     definitely OPENED THE DOOR, so to speak • whose creative wisdom

     has mirrored my own seemingly universally driven force of life

     in[DEED] that has manifested [IT]self as a series of five initiatives. 

     [IT] was at DIDACTA '84 Basel that the 128K Apple Macintosh was

     first launched in Europe and [IT] was the WYSIWYG interface thereof,

     in combination with PostScript and the Apple Laserwriter, which

     subsequently provided the very powerful self-publishing potential of

     Desk-Top Publishing, which Paul Ranky utilised to spread the word              

     of systems thinking, in respect to the development of the idea of

     computer integrated manufacture, that Paul's father had always

     dreamed of during his time of advising the likes of Ford and GM,

     with their automated production lines, before he died in a tragic

     boating accident in Hungary. 

      

 

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[Michael Grove]

Andy Hertzfeld was a member of the team that built the original Macintosh 128K. At Apple, Andy's business card listed his title as "Software Wizard", and he wrote large portions of the computer's original system software. I've always been fascinated by the process of creating new tools and interfaces, especially those that amplify our thought and communication. We’ve all seen the legendary Apple keynotes and how personal computing has transformed the way we live and work, but what I was really interested to learn from Andy was what it was like to shape that vision from scratch, what it was like to work as an engineer when most people didn’t even really understand what a computer was, when the frontier of what it could become was wide open.

[Michael Grove]

[IT] was at the bequest of Dr. Vannevar Bush as the scientific advisor to President Franklin Roosevelt, that the MIT Radiation Laboratory was established to develop technologies for the detection of aircraft and ships • capabilities that were sorely lacking in 1940 • in conjunction with the British and their 10cm cavity magnetron, by means of the basic structure of a program that would develop the radar technology that subsequently had a decisive role in the Allied victory of World War II.

 

Following on from Dr. Bush’s idea of a ”MEMEX” in 1945 • Doug Engelbart, who was best known as the inventor of the mouse, but also came up with the idea of screens, and windows, and "hypertext", clickable links in text that could take you from document to document • IT WAS of course Apple Computers that put together the very first practical and demonstrable version of Bush's ”MEMEX”; developments of which Tim Berners Lee was able to avail himself, to create the Hyper Text Transmission Protocol [http://], the World Wide Web [www] and the concept of a Browser, which became Netscape, to establish THE new relationship between thinking man and the sum of our knowledge.

[Michael Grove]

[IT] was of course at the bequest of Dr. Vannevar Bush as the scientific

advisor to President Franklin Roosevelt, that the MIT Radiation Laboratory was established to develop technologies for the detection of aircraft and ships • capabilities that were sorely lacking in 1940 • in conjunction with the British and their 10cm cavity magnetron, by means of the basic structure of a program that would develop the radar technology that subsequently had a decisive role in the Allied victory of World War II.

 

Following on from Dr. Bush’s IDEA of a ”MEMEX” in 1945 • Doug Engelbart, who was best known as the inventor of the mouse, but also came up with the idea of screens, and windows, and "hypertext", clickable links in text that could take you from document to document • IT WAS of course Apple Computers that put together the very first practical and demonstrable version of Bush's ”MEMEX”; developments of which Tim Berners Lee was able to avail himself, to create the Hyper Text Transmission Protocol [http://], the World Wide Web [www] and the concept of a Browser, which became Netscape, to establish THE new relationship between thinking man and the sum of our knowledge.