Re: [FRIAM] Shift happens

2007-05-29 Thread Bill Eldridge
No, I didn't even see "The Passion", though "Apocalypto" sounded cool. Back in Alabama, our pickups only had room for a shotgun, a dawg & a case of beer - no room for information - never even missed it, come to think of it. Nicholas Thompson wrote: Bill, I notice that you used one of the co

Re: [FRIAM] CAS in Mumbai. At lunchtime.

2007-05-29 Thread Merle Lefkoff
Tom Johnson wrote: > Yes, it is a feature story, but the content -- and context -- is also > a wonderful, almost-perfect example of humans developing/evolving > Complex Adaptive Systems. > > Rai, Saritha. "In India, Grandma Cooks, They Deliver." __The New York > Times__ 29 May 2007. 29 May 2007

[FRIAM] CAS in Mumbai. At lunchtime.

2007-05-29 Thread Tom Johnson
Yes, it is a feature story, but the content -- and context -- is also a wonderful, almost-perfect example of humans developing/evolving Complex Adaptive Systems. Rai, Saritha. "In India, Grandma Cooks, They Deliver." *The New York Times*29 May 2007. 29 May 2007 < http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/2

Re: [FRIAM] Shift happens

2007-05-29 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Bill, I notice that you used one of the code words, information pickup. Are you a gibsonian? Nick > [Original Message] > From: Bill Eldridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > Date: 5/29/2007 5:13:37 PM > Subject: Re: [FRIAM]

Re: [FRIAM] Shift happens

2007-05-29 Thread Bill Eldridge
Dogs hear much better than you. Does it bother you that there are frequencies they hear and you don't? As Buckminster Fuller notes, "space" is full of electromagnetic waves - it's not really empty at all. Does it bother you that you can't see the waves passing by? Much of the "new" information is

[FRIAM] Shift happens

2007-05-29 Thread Nicholas Thompson
H! Something bothers me about the notion of an information explosion. Let's say that information is a statement about the number of different things in the world that could possibly be pointed out. Then information is a constant, or infinite, or both, eh? Lets say that information is as

Re: [FRIAM] Shift Happens (TRANSCRIPT)

2007-05-29 Thread Robert Howard
TRANSCRIPT of "SHIFT HAPPENS" from http://www.glumbert.com/media/shift Shift Happens - DID YOU KNOW Sometimes size does matter If you're one in a million in China... ...there are 1,300 people just like you In India there are 1,100 people just like you The 25% of the population in China wi