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When Algorithms Create Our Culture:
https://www.worldcrunch.com/tech-science/when-algorithms-create-our-culture/c4s19935Music, books and other intellectual artifacts are increasingly being produced automatically by machines. A new book explores the ways in which artists exploit this new reality.
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Humans are hardwired to tell & listen to stories. Narratives are how we make sense of complex realities & make decisions, given we can never comprehend all "facts". Hence, "Narrative Engineering" (e.g. multi dimensional/modal "story telling") is the foundation of societal change. Narratives eat evidence for breakfast
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https://pursuanceproject.org/ - a system for crowdsourced journalism:
"Pursuance is open source software that enables individuals to organize in the pursuit of shared goals."
Article about pursuance: https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/pursuance-project-barrett-brown/
“Pursuance aims to unify like-minded individuals with the purpose of pooling resources, dispersing tools to enact social change, and establishing a system of accountability to produce tangible solutions for the greater good,” Burkhart said. “Imagine the effectiveness of a network of individuals, all equipped with a variety of skills to meet the demands of a certain issue, working simultaneously with hundreds of other entities focused on similar pursuits.”
Pursuance Tech Talk demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7MuSCDXvTc
"For the first time in human history, we can get any individual to collaborate with any other individual. So its about time we start leveraging this"
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@vakibs tweets: "Who is interested in planting trees ? And growing gardens ? And welcoming wild life to settle down, so that in 100 years time, we can build a forest that can save our planet ?
To which someone replied: "I know that it was a rhetorical question but i thought that a real answer will do more justice to the question."
@vakibs: It is not a rhetorical question. I am asking for people: Who is interested in building a longterm computing culture? Please learn from the history of AI (both artificial intelligence & augmented intelligence), know who else is working on these projects, and team up for 100 years"
My reply: "Who is interested in building a long-term computing culture?" ← good question. Who is interested in building a regenerative global culture, where computing is used in service life, and not the other way around?
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"I live in a modern EcoVillage and it's pretty much the real-world Shire":
https://imgur.com/gallery/KbPrjkp"Aardehuizen ("Earth houses") took over 3 years to build, by the people themselves following the Earthship principles, using mostly recycled, reused, and locally sourced building materials. 23 houses; 70 people; mostly families live here."
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Coining a new term: "Reality Detachment Syndrome" (RDS) - A mental illness where patients obsessively use technology to detach their senses from reality. Symptoms related to "Escapism" & "Depersonalization disorder".
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Doughnut #Economics by Kate Raworth - VPRO #Documentary (2017)
In Doughnut economics by Kate Raworth, we see that markets are inefficient and growth is not the holy grail. It's time for a new economics model: the doughnut economics. Kate Raworth's plea for the 'doughnut economics' casts doubt on the credo of economic growth for sustainability: there are hard limits to what you can do to the planet. Kate Raworth's doughnut economics could change our future. Let's have a look.
Book: Doughnut Economics: https://www.amazon.com/Doughnut-Economics-Seven-21st-Century-Economist/dp/1603587969/
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"Never give a sword to a man who can't dance." - Confucius
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"Steven Pinker’s ideas are fatally flawed. These eight graphs show why":
https://www.opendemocracy.net/transformation/jeremy-lent/steven-pinker-s-ideas-are-fatally-flawed-these-eight-graphs-show-why
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"Procedural Generation For Game Jams: Faster, Better, Weirder" - talk by @mtrc :
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What is "Solarpunk"? This 20min talk by @thejaymo gives a great overview of the emerging eco-futurist movement.
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"Organic molecules 'fundamental to search for life' found on Mars":
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LiquidText: The future of reading/writing. A very impressive app: https://liquidtext.net #HCI
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Real Value - #Documentary about #Economics, Sustainability & Social Entrepreneurship:
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Lessons of the Loess Plateau - 50min #Documentary on #Regenerative Ecology
Ecopoint has teamed up with the Environmental Education Media Project (EEMP), and John D. Liu, Founder & Director of EEMP, is proud to bring you this film. In 2005, the Chinese government, in cooperation with the World Bank, completed the world's largest watershed restoration on the upper banks of the Yellow River. Woefully under-publicized, the $500 million enterprise transformed an area of 35,000 square kilometers on the Loess Plateau — roughly the area of Belgium — from dusty wasteland to a verdant agricultural center.
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“If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.” — R. Buckminster Fuller
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“In the present state of architectural and environmental design, almost no problem has yet been made to exhibit complexity in such a well-defined way that it actually requires the use of a computer. The effort to state a problem in such a way that a computer can be used to solve it will distort your view of the problem. It will allow you to consider only those aspects of the problem which can be encoded—and in many cases these are the most trivial and the least relevant aspects.” - Christopher Alexander (1965)
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"From Sustainability through Regeneration: Whole and Living System Design" - by Bill Reed:
"The biggest leverage points (to deal with climate change) are hope and love - not guilt. So how do we fall in love? We date someone. So let's start dating nature. That which we are in love with we take care of." - Bill Reed
"Life is a process of becoming." - Bill Reed
"Now is the time for us to grow, not just ever-larger and ever-more-consuming, but ever more intelligent, more creative, and more conscious. We are headed into the future. Are you coming with us?" - Bill Reed
"The process to engage people in a community around that which they love or care for." - Bill Reed
Follow up links:
Designing Regenerative Cultures - article by Daniel Christian Wahl:
https://www.permaculture.co.uk/articles/designing-regenerative-culturesLiving Buildings for a Living Future - talk by Jason McLennan:
"How do we produce buildings that are not bad for the enviroment, but are good for the envorment? Why can't we do these things, that nature does?"
- Jason McLennan
