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Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 13:37:08 -0800
To: "synergetics-l" <synergetics-l@telelists.com>
From: Kirby Urner <pdx4d@teleport.com>
Subject: [synergetics-l] Letter to Dr. Richard Meier (Feb 16 1999)
Cc: synergetics-l@telelists.com
Feb 16, 1999
Dr. Richard Meier
City and Regional Planning
University of California
Berkeley, CA
Greetings Dick --
received your Draft 10 (Feb 99) of 'IT: An Impact Assessment'
today, w/ note requesting feedback. Read it just now; here's
some feedback:
CYBER SPEED-UP W/ ABUSE POTENTIAL
I agree re e-commerce (speed up and deregulation), and would
link your concerns about gambling and organized crime to the
fuzzy area between e-trading and securities investing (e.g.
day, week, month trading -- vs. long hauler approach).
WORLDS IN COLLISION (COMPETING SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT)
I tend to add a layer of analysis overtop hardware/software
infrastructure re "meme traffic" (Dawkins) i.e. how does
accelerated learning jibe w/ different competing schools of
thought in their recruitment/counter-recruitment of next
generation adherents? Obviously the UC system does a good job
-- but then what next after initial schooling i.e. how do
corporations, religions, government agencies compete for
skilled talent? Enter 'Systematic Ideology' (a discipline).
<EXCERPT>
From Earlham College Guide to Philosophy on the Internet
(by Dr. Peter Suber) HTML source view:
<LI><A HREF="http://www.teleport.com/~pdx4d/index.html"
_lase="hippias:3">Synergetics</A>. From Kirby Urner.
<LI><A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Classroom/
3735/index.html" _lase="hippias:3">Systematic Ideology</A>.
From Trevor Blake.
</EXCERPT>
THE CYBER-VILLAGE: RECRUITING W/ PREFERRED WORK ENVIRONMENTS
I'm bucking for alternatives to cubicle-based or even sub/urban
home based computing studios in the form of Fly's Eyes, for
example, tripod-based deployables, large assortment of modules
with complementing strengths (after-market customizable, as per
the computer and automotive industries), making a more
'village-level' basing strategy attractive, including for
digerati (highly computer literate). This is my Project
Earthala focus.
Reference: http://www.teleport.com/~pdx4d/domeproto.html
THINKING IN THE ROUND: NEW EMPHASIS ON SPATIAL GEOMETRY
On the distance learning front, I'm bucking for more spatial
geometry over flatlander stuff in the early grades, with
Euclidean-style triangulation/proofs coming _after_ a strong
foundation in volumetric abstractions -- which are closer to
the "real world" and therefore less the abstractions than
"planar" shapes (contrary to current dogma). Shared this with
Ralph Abraham, UCSB. This is my Videogrammatron Project.
Reference: http://www.inetarena.com/~pdx4d/ocn/outline1.html
COUNTERINTELLIGENCE VS DOOMSAYERS & ARDENT NATIONALISTS
Back to the "meme traffic": I'm looking at countering
fundamentalism, by which I mean apocalyptic doomsaying
(self-fulfilling and undermining of the cultural ethos) and
nationalism, by which I mean too much attention paid to the
jigsaw puzzle of interlocking colored shapes on world maps (my
early school curriculum is a lot less vested in those graphics).
Reference: http://www.teleport.com/~pdx4d/bosnia.html
Yrs,
Kirby
Principal
4D Solutions
Silicon Forest
Oregon
Follow-up
Project Earthala:
http://www.teleport.com/~pdx4d/earthala.html
The Videogrammatron:
http://www.teleport.com/~pdx4d/videogrammatron.html
PS: As you may recall from earlier emails, I'm in favor of
niche-marketing a brand of general systems theory as explicitly
competitive with economics (the disicipline) i.e. my GST is
openly polemical versus "brain dead whiteman economics"
("whiteman" used ethnographically -- the idea of "races" is one
more of those brain dead concepts to which GST-speakers no
longer subscribe). I credit Native American sources in this
connection, as part of an ongoing multimedia presentation aimed
at spining my "USA operating system" (aka system of governance)
further away from its more Eurocentric AngloRoman sources,
which remain overly Malthusian in outlook and therefore way too
sloooooooow on the uptake (new world = faster horses).
Cite: http://www.teleport.com/~pdx4d/gst2.html
Cite: http://www.teleport.com/~pdx4d/ngpost.html
PPS: For Xmas sent mom & dad some books and tapes from
Amazon.com (took 'til February to reach Lesotho) among which
books was Robert Anton Wilson's new dictionary of conspiracies
from A-Z, which links to my website under several entries. RAW
has a fairly large youthful following. Recruitment of new
talent into the Fuller School (as I call it) is going very well
-- and we've got oldsters too ("Bob Dole types" some might call
'em -- eyewitnesses to WWII).
Cite: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0062734172/
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