I borrowed a friend’s zoom lens last week, to see if it would work for me, and it’s amazing how differently the world appears through it … it’s like I have a pair of new eyes. Things I thought were far away are suddenly accessible …
… the innermost hearts of others revealed…
I like to think (and
the sooner the better!)
of a cybernetic meadow
where mammals and computers
live together in mutually
programming harmony
like pure water
touching clear sky.
I like to think
(right now, please!)
of a cybernetic forest
filled with pines and electronics
where deer stroll peacefully
past computers
as if they were flowers
with spinning blossoms.
I like to think
(it has to be!)
of a cybernetic ecology
where we are free of our labors
and joined back to nature,
returned to our mammal
brothers and sisters,
and all watched over
by machines of loving grace.
~ Richard Brautigan 1967
I’ve been working on a project with the Collective Wisdom Initiative that really exemplifies the ‘new way of being’ online that I was describing the other day…. and we launched this week.
‘Seeded Conversations‘ start with short evocative pieces of text or imagery that explore the field of collective wisdom, from which a few specific questions are posed to catalyze a deeper response to the material. The invitation is to listen for the ‘collective thought’ you sense gathering in the pieces themselves and whatever others have added before you… and add your part to the emergent whole.
It’s an experiment in a very different way of engaging online, and I’m excited by the possibilities. If the initiative intrigues you too you’re welcome to come play.
UC Berkeley is now broadcasting physics Professor Richard A. Muller’s lecture series Physics for Future Presidents and distributing it and other taped lectures through Google Video as part of a larger project Google has initiated in partnership with Universities all over the country. These inspiriting & informative video/audio files are available free to everyone who wants to learn, whoever they are, and wherever they are in the world.
A quick search on Google Video shows Distorted Morality, a video of a talk Noam Chomsky recently gave at Harvard about America’s ‘war on terror’.
To me, these examples really exemplify the wonderful purpose to which the
internet can be put. THIS is why it’s so important to keep the internet
free from commercial control, and a source of content from and for the people of the world. If you want to know more about this subject, here are some UTube videos on Net Neutrality.
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