Tag: technology

The Emptiness

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Post date May 7, 2019
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There may be something tragically inevitable in the procedural hollowing-out of social lives in an era of accelerating and technologically-mediated hyper-connectivity.

Tags alienation, commodity, ego, emptiness, fiction, isolation, loneliness, lonely, network, self, society, technology

technology

Utopia, Dystopia and Technological Forecasting

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Post date Mar 10, 2019
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As the frequency of technological change accelerates, the amplitude and range of uncertainty is concurrently amplified.

Tags business, change, disruption, forecast, forecasting, futures, Futurism, geopolitics, prediction, technology

Psychology

Quieting the Ego

Psychological closure or completion of an isolated ego remains a functional, technological and sociological impossibility.

Tags conflict, ego, history, identity, knowledge, michel foucault, power, Psychology, self, self-identity, subjectivity, technology

culture

Stealthy Hackers

Cybersecurity is an iterative, recombinatory and open-ended logical process.

Tags antibiotic resistance, cyber, cybersecurity, hackers, information, security, stealth, systems, technology

communication Complexity culture

Information System Reflexivity

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Post date Feb 3, 2019
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The key selection factor for successful pattern self-replication in a transmission medium is the extent to which the information content of that message also (reflexively) supports the propagation of the integrated or gestalt information system represented by the networked transmission medium itself.

Tags academic, biology, communication, compression, information, internet, media, physics, recursion, technology, University

culture politics Psychology systems

Directionless: The Teleological Vacuum of Global Civilisation

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Post date Feb 3, 2019
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Humanity spends far too much time bickering and fighting over how we will collectively move forward to ever actually get on with the very serious business of actually ensuring our own continuity, survival and ongoing tenure on this planet.

Tags culture, dogma, humanity, ideology, intelligence, life, Philosophy, planetary civilisation, planetary civilization, politics, species, survival, technology

communication Psychology systems

Self-Propagating Memetic Information Systems

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Post date Feb 1, 2019
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Human minds are self-propagating patterns of information that are implicitly biased towards seeking biological, cultural and technological methods of (self-)reproduction.

Tags communication, Complexity, culture, information, internet, logic, meme, memes, Psychology, recursion, social engineering, technology, vulnerability

Philosophy

Logical Insight into Living Systems

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Post date Jan 20, 2019
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Subjecting our concepts of self and world to radical reconfiguration and a creative recombinatory metamorphosis is a certain path to cultivating insight, innovation and discovery.

Tags creativity, culture, information, innovation, insight, life, logic, physics, recursion, technology

Philosophy systems

The Self-Replicating Logic of Life

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Post date Jan 20, 2019
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Life is notoriously difficult to pin down and unambiguously define.

Tags Complexity, culture, evolution, information, life, logic, recursion, self-propagation, self-replication, technology

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Culture, Technology and Information Systems as Living Entities ?

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Post date Jan 20, 2019
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An ability to think in terms of systems holistically as participating in mutually reflexive causal interdependence can initially be a difficult abstraction and conceptual bridge to cross but it also reveals itself as a powerful way to understand real world systems and processes.