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Key components of Innovation: Culture > Serendipity > Culture > Management > Culture > Politics > Culture > Architecture > Culture > Bureaucracy > Technology > Culture > Design > Culture > Mindfulness
The easiest answer to any question, is to not ask the question in the first place.
Nature > Humans > Culture > Technology - and not the other way around as often assumed.
If all your focus rests on the outcomes of your actions, you are bound to not enjoy the ride there. This is a central fallacy of the vision of automating everything.
Reflections on "Nostalgia": This very moment right now will soon be past and subject to Nostalgia in the future. Being "Nostalgic for the future" is generally more fun than dwelling in the past. Or as Karl Valentin once said: "In the past, even the future was better"
A crisis is a wonderful thing – it means that we’ve reached the limits of our current thinking and something new will (has to) emerge
“Digital transformation” is the new “structural adjustment”, "Industry 4.0" is the new neo-liberalism. "Cult of Singularity" is the new fascism. "Predictive Policing" is the new Eugenics. "History doesn't repeat itself but it often rhymes"
Why is it that nurses (help save lives) and teachers (educate our next generations) earn far less money than software developers (some working on important things, but many on societally irrelevant stuff) or finance people (value of work debatable) ?
"The taller the bamboo grows, the lower it bends."
- Chinese Proverb
"The shortest path between two ideas is the path you took."
- David H. Ackley in "Ordinary magic"
Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster
- Wirth's law
maintaining a level of uncertainty is critical for the functioning of any system
“There is a general principle that a stupid man can ask such questions to which one hundred wise men would not be able to answer. In accordance with this principle I shall formulate some problems.” - Vladimir Arnold
Most great ideas are "harvested", not "invented". #Ideas
The most effective way to deal with uncertainty is not control, but relaxation.
Mcluhan's diagnosis that "Augmentation" leads to "Amputation" is spot on. It is especially fascinating how Augmentation is related to "behaving like an insensitive, asocial idiot". Ego scales according to the size of the machine one controls, ethics & empathy don't.
#Augmentation #Ideas