Re: Speculative Intergalactic Network

2018-01-11 Thread John Hopkins
Keith - you beat me to it -- There is much room for expanding ones communicative system in the immediate surrounds of this very planet -- there is an abundance of communicative energy flows all around us. Most of these we are -- by choice and by social convention -- completely ignoring. Yet

Re: Speculative Intergalactic Network

2018-01-11 Thread Keith Hart
As a thought experiment, consider why we can't communicate with the ants or vice versa. Their social organization is stronger than ours and their collective intelligence is demonstrable. It may be that one side is more primitive than the other. But which? Kant held that reason is still largely

Re: Speculative Intergalactic Network

2018-01-11 Thread K E N O
> It would probably not be called internet, require a better > understanding and use of our "other senses and sensors". > Maybe it exists and we dumbs don't perceive it... or we don't know that > certain waves effects are signs of it... or we produce too much > electromagnetic pollution to be able

Re: So what does awakening mean to you?

2018-01-11 Thread Keith Hart
On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 8:10 PM, Dan S. Wang wrote: > > > Hi Brian, > > Thank you for an inspired meditation on the film Get Out. I watched it a > few days ago. [spoilers to follow, sorry] > > The film is totally about race, but so is America, or for that matter, > Europe.

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2018-01-11 Thread Benjamin CADON [Labomedia]
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Re: Speculative Intergalactic Network

2018-01-11 Thread christineT
I very much like the idea of a communication network expanded to aliens (us included) and the question of imperialistic subordination of ones by others. It would probably not be called internet, require a better understanding and use of our "other senses and sensors". Maybe it exists and we dumbs

Speculative Intergalactic Network

2018-01-11 Thread K E N O
Let’s assume (so called intelligent) aliens would exist. What do you think: How would communication work with those aliens? How would it change the Internet if we expanded it to different planets? I’ve been wondering if hierarchical structures between the new lifeforms and us humans would occur

Re: managerialism

2018-01-11 Thread Richard Barbrook
Hiya, Thanks very much for your kind words. I'm pleased that you liked my little book which is definitely one of my favourite creations. This article will amuse you: https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2017/09/class-wargames-how-obscure-board-game-led-labours-gamification-power Richard

Re: managerialism

2018-01-11 Thread Orsan
This is a classical art piece Richard. I think it is one of the most important contributions, as your work in general, to a 21 cc. Bogdanovite call -for the creation of millions of Lenins (organizers) for the win. The need to turn everyone to managers, so that there is no one remaining to be