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In 1966 the BBC announced plans to begin broadcasting television programmes in colour. Britain was the first country in Europe to offer regular programming in colour
The Instamatic was a series of inexpensive, easy-to-load 126 and 110 cameras made by Kodak in the 1960s. Today there would be no Instagram without this invention
Cutting out the hard work: Apple's iPod meant trips to the record store were a thing of the past, while Dyson's bagless vacuum cleaner got rid of a lot of the mess and fuss of keeping houses in order.
These are just a few of the gadgets that have made it onto the 100 gadgets of the past century that we can’t live without, with technologies ranging from humble zip to the Playstation 4.
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[IT] IS TIME methinks for us to consider THE WHAT IS of Transition
and THE WHAT IF of Transition in the context of developing the
IDEA of the Totnes £21 Pound note and the Lewes Pound by way
of utilising the blockchain technology of WE ARE ONE.
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Added by Michael Grove at 23:10 on December 16, 2019
re housework; James Fallows’s prescient warning about the consequences of invading Iraq; or Ta-Nehisi Coates’s case for reparations.
The Atlantic’s Ideas section, which I oversee, aims to build on this rich legacy. The essays published in Ideas continue to challenge readers’ preconceptions. Yoni Appelbaum Senior Editor, The Atlantic
3 years before the United Nations made its Declaration of Human Rights President Roosevelt's science advisor, Dr. Vannevar Bush - published in the July edition of Atlantic Monthly - his IDEA of a wondrous machine which he called a memex. A machine which would enable you to search through information with incredible speed. You could pinpoint a thought in a book, leap to a related piece, pointing to a newspaper story and go on linking ideas until you built, in essence, a record tracing your own train of thought - one which you could pass along to friends and associates. All of which would be considerably closer to the way the MIND works.
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tion,
"[IT]'s critical that we find the cartographers of
consciousness, and the mapmakers of the
terrain". And as Scandinavia is one of the regions
centred on the tipping point to second tier, it's
within our potential take on this challenge...
"to provide for the rest of the world the
kinds of models that the world needs."
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Added by Michael Grove at 12:02 on December 21, 2021
ainian civilians as the price of Moscow’s self-induced humiliation—and that Russia must pay a price for these atrocities.Yaakov Kedmi is not some squishy peacenik who was pulled off Tverskaya Street to be a designated talk-show punching bag. He was born in Russia, emigrated to Israel, and returned several years ago as a supporter of the Putin regime on Russian television. He’s said some nice things about that great “statesman” Joseph Stalin, and he warned last spring that Russia could bomb the United Kingdom “back to the stone age” if the British didn’t mind their own business with regard to Ukraine.Why Solovyov and Kedmi were at all having this conversation? [IS] because the Russian war in Ukraine is no longer a “war” in the sense that most people would conceive of a military contest between two states over some discrete or tangible issue. It is not, in any sense, the kind of conflict that academic “realists” would understand as some kind of Russian exercise in power balancing against an external threat. Instead, Russia’s invasion is now an ongoing operation of mass murder.
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Added by Michael Grove at 12:13 on November 22, 2022
command and control mechanisms for structuring,
organizing and managing more complex civilizations that the new energy regimes make
possible. For example, in the early modern age, print communication became the means to
organize and manage the technologies, organizations, and infrastructure of the coal, steam,
and rail revolution. It would have been impossible to administer the first industrial revolution
using script and codex.
Communication revolutions not only manage new, more complex energy regimes, but also
change human consciousness in the process. Forager/hunter societies relied on oral communications and their consciousness was mythologically constructed. The great
hydraulic agricultural civilizations were, for the most part, organized around script
communication and steeped in theological consciousness. The first industrial revolution of
the 19th century was managed by print communication and ushered in ideological
consciousness. Electronic communication became the command and control mechanism
for arranging the second industrial revolution in the 20th century and spawned
psychological consciousness.
Each more sophisticated communication revolution brings together more diverse people in
increasingly more expansive and varied social networks. Oral communication has only
limited temporal and spatial reach while script, print and electronic communications each
extend the range and depth of human social interaction.
By extending the central nervous system of each individual and the society as a whole,
communication revolutions provide an evermore inclusive playing field for empathy to
mature and consciousness to expand. For example, during the period of the great hydraulic
agricultural civilizations characterized by script and theological consciousness, empathic
sensitivity broadened from tribal blood ties to associational ties based on common religious
affiliation. Jews came to empathize with Jews, Christians with Christians, Muslims with
Muslims, etc. In the first industrial revolution characterized by print and ideological
consciousness, empathic sensibility extended to national borders, with Americans
empathizing with Americans, Germans with Germans, Japanese with Japanese and so on.
In the second industrial revolution, characterized by electronic communication and
psychological consciousness, individuals began to identify with like-minded others.
Today, we are on the cusp of another historic convergence of energy and communication–a
third industrial revolution–that could extend empathic sensibility to the biosphere itself and
all of life on Earth. The distributed Internet revolution is coming together with distributed
renewable energies, making possible a sustainable, post-carbon economy that is both
globally connected and locally managed.…
ic example of the ineffectiveness of America's condescending attitude towards Africa. Invisible Children turned out to be a scam, one of the filmmakers was arrested for wacking off in public, and most importantly, nothing ever happened to Kony and his army is still at large."
Where do the good ideas come from?
as of 11/11/2011 - THE very best IDEAS come from HERE
BUT THE BEST IDEAS comes from HERE
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rical motion. Let us imagine a
cube composed of 27 small cubes, and
let us imagine this cube asexpanding and
contracting. During the process of expansion all the 26 cubes lying
around the central cube will retreat from it and on contraction will
approach it again. For the sake of convenience in reasoning and in
order to increase the likeness of the cube to a body consisting of
molecules, let us suppose that the cubes have no dimension, that they
are nothing but points. In other words, let us take only the centres of
the 27 cubes and imagine them connected by lines both with the centre
and with each other. Visualising the expansion of this cube, composed
of 27 cubes, we may say that in order to avoid colliding with another
cube and hindering its motion, each of these cubes must move away
from the centre, that is to say, along the line which connects its centre
with the centre of the central cube. This is the first rule: In the course
of expansion and contraction molecules move along the lines
which connect them with the centre.
P D Ouspensky
NASSIM HARAMEIN comes to MIND ... and his explanation of the DENSITY / DESTINY of EVERYTHING
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rapbook-time-capsule, so also would he propose to include
Daniel Wahl's first ever book entitled Designing Regenerative
Cultures, in his extended life's AlphaINDEX of STORIES, if for no
other reason than Fritjof Capra's review, in which he states ...
"Life on the Planet has sustained itself for billions of years by
continually regenerating itself. Our modern industrial culture has
interfered with these natural processes to the point of causing
massive extinctions of species and threatening our very survival.
This book is a valuable contribution to the important discussion of
the worldview and value system we need to redesign our businesses,
economies, and technologies - in fact, our entire culture
- so as to make them regenerative rather than destructive."
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