“David Loye referred to “our capacity – by no means 100% reliable, but to a higher degree than present chaos theory dictates – to predict the future in situations of extreme instability”. “The question I’m pondering is whether it is equally true to say that people can predict the future in situations of extreme stability?” (Well, that’s what I posted on the chaopsyc listserv in 1999 so I should by now have an answer!).
“The inverse problem here is, given an observed connectivity matrix, to work back to the dynamics that generated it.” (Robert Gregson); love the phrase, though maybe would have started with “The solution here is..” but I’m just being picky. It reminds me of a recent meeting when explaning why the structure of a database and the formation of content on the front of a website are structured differently! Also reminds me that the word ‘obstruct’ as in ‘Do not obstruct the door’ includes an abbreviated version of the word structure.
Yesterday I found out that:
1. One uncle is due to have open heart surgery
2. Another uncle is having a heart checkup
3. A brother is away on business in Sidney
4. Another brother had a car plough into his front garden after a bus clipped it in the early hours of the morning.
Get those George W. Bush speeches downloaded and pick out the key words now! (I kid you not: see a study of the Bush team’s words from 11 Sept to 15 Sept 2001 using the Crawdad software; who knows maybe it has KM web 2.0 uses?).
In case it’s of interest – Crawdad Technologies helps analysts and research professionals gain insight from the unstructured text found in customer interview and focus group transcripts, customer survey comments, news articles, written reports and proposals, and incident and safety reports..looks a neat tool.
Went to a art/music wig out at the ICA last night, and caught up with Michael who’s just been on one of his usual binges (though reportedly without the additives 
) which is always entertaining. Strangely I deigned to smoke one of his Cambodian cigarettes, and was suitably impressed by his Mines Advisory Group T-shirt from Laos. All good stuff -and met up with the keyboards man himself Martin Howse who in a strange twist of fate is an extra in the Verve video set in Hoxton market where whatshisname is bumping people out the way – sad the sneaky Rolling Stones sample meant they made
Bush Recommends Blogs Dropping in on Wheeling, West Virginia yesterday to rally support for the Iraqi War, President Bush also dropped a word that maybe even surprised himself: blogs. The armchair warriors at home whispered among themselves, “did he just say ‘blogs?’”
You know people 2.0? it’s not difficult to describe; it’s like something I read in Wired magazine or somewhere – to live with the freedom and connectivity of the online world but offline. to which my answer is it’s kind of impossible by its nature to give a one size fits all solution to that – we don’t live in that semantic modernist world any more. What you kind of can do is give a mosaic of ideas and images maybe, and say go and create your own version, your own ‘app’, which makes sense to you, that the truth will emerge from that – if you want it to. But lets face it most people want to have their cake and eat it. They want freedom, but without really confronting the rock bottom fact that the most liberating people 2.0 concept is highly ‘untechi’ – love. (Sorry, it’s Mother’s Day shortly and I’m doing my best to be on my best behaviour!) Love in the radical sense of Che Guevara, Franz Fanon, Eric Fromm, Paulo Freire and the rest. Now if you connect up that reality with web 2.0 you really would have something going on..
alongside web 2.0 what does ‘people 2.0′ mean? and not simply in the sense of people working in that technical sphere? thoughts to come..
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“Fiber optic cables used to be simple: just long, thin glass strands for light to travel down. But now chemists have discovered a method to grow thin wires of metal inside them. This could revolutionize optical electronics by making all-in-one devices within a single optical fiber.” Neat hey?!