Obviously my mind loops about in small circles! I think I need to read more Al Purdy (my favourite poet, back when I read poetry), and develop more variety in my references.
As my memory deteriorates, my randomly dispersed trail of sporadic writings is leading to a slowly building frequency of instances of "gee, did I write that?" -Pete On Tue, 14 Jun 2011, Arthur Cordell wrote: > > This is the way the world ends > This is the way the world ends > This is the way the world ends > Not with a bang, but with an "upgrade". > > Pete Vincent from the FW list > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of pete > Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 5:17 PM > To: RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION > Subject: Re: [Futurework] darpa's living foundries > > On Tue, 14 Jun 2011, Michael Gurstein wrote: > > > > > Special Notice (SN) DARPA-SN-11-44 > > SUBJECT: Living Foundries Industry Day > > DATE: June 28, 2011 > > > >(...) > > > > The Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) of the Defense Advanced Research > > Projects Agency (DARPA) is sponsoring an Industry Day for "Living > > Foundries," a new DARPA program. The goal of the Living Foundries program > is > > to apply an engineering framework to biology to harness its use as a > > technology and drive its advance as a manufacturing platform. > > This spring, listening to the endless stream of weather emergency > reports from across the world, while grinding through the ninth month > of unbroken overcast, with drizzle interrupted by downpours, I > thought about amending Eliot: > > This is the way the world ends > This is the way the world ends > This is the way the world ends > Not with a bang but with a gurgle > > However, in light of this article, I might propose a new last line > > Not with a bang but with an "Ooops, who opened that?" > > -Pete > > > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework > > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework > > _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
