I have never climbed Mt. Fuji -- the closest I
got was the "bullet train". But I generally
look at Mt. Fuji every day via a live Fujicam [web
camera].
What makes Mt. Fuji "important" for me are (inter alia) the
Fuji-snail haiku, Hokusai's wood block prints,
etc. -- as I have utilized all of these in my
own imaginative processes.
I also have found that the poor quality video
camera could yield powerful images -- perhaps
often more engaging than the real mountain.
(One specific is when one gets refraction and
reflection artefacts -- e.g., "flares" --
in the camera lens. Here are some Fuji webcam pictures,
some of which are probably good examples why
a lawyer might question photographs introduced
as evidence against his or her client even if the
photographs are neither fakes nor even "retouched":
http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/jpg/FujiView.html
What does this have to do with the future of work?
Well, I look at Mt. Fuji on my computer monitor at
work, for one thing. Which recalls to my mind something
from the days before the sun set on IBM (actually,
this was twilight time...):
The person who invented the little move-the-mouse button in the
center of your laptop's keyboard had, like all
IBM Researchers, an office without a window (not even the
Director had a window). But this person did have
a TV monitor in his [windowless] office, hooked up to a TV camera
pointed fixedly at a certain nondescript spot on
the lab lawn. He had a 24-7 "virtual window"
in his office back around 1983.
\brad mccormick
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Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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