Reclusland

I’m getting a lot of signals that I perhaps I shouldn’t be trying to cache all this research for future use in article writing.  Perhaps I should make this entire thing open source, so to speak?  Things seem to be accumulating too fast for me to keep up with them…

What do you think?  Let me know in the comments.

Some recent relevant links that I am currently too full of information to catalog:

http://futurismic.com/2008/12/08/gosplan-emergent/ (strange title, eh?)

http://metamodern.com/2008/12/05/black-swans/ (“Although he focuses on the social and financial world, his advice on “how to live in a world we don’t understand very well” seems equally applicable to the unpredictable consequences of predictable revolutions in technology.” or anything else for that matter)

http://www.vincenthorn.com/2008/12/07/the-importance-of-stream-entry/ (“The other interesting thing in this metaphor is that once one has entered a stream they will be impacted by its momentum. In a sense, they are carried by the stream. One of my teachers talks about how stream-entry has to do with the opening of the “dharma eye,” which means that one has seen the truth of the dharma for themselves, but also means that they are now fully open to a process, that is more “doing them” then they are doing it.”)

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.06/Xanadu/5.1.html (“Simply as a matter of citizenship, it is essential to understand the impact and uses of computers in the world of the future. Computers belong to all mankind.”)

http://magicmushrooms.slinkset.com/search?q=reclusland&x=0&y=0 (ha! Looks like I get some self-referential searches as well! Well, granted, I was actually searching for “reclusland” at the time…  Had completely forgotten about this post though and I was glad to be reminded of it as it fits very well into all this)

And, as a taste of what I mean by research, here’s some examples of the notes from my main sources:
Tim Boucher
Rob Bryanton

On edit: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/12/disjunctions-an.html (reminds me I need to focus my levels of relevance…)

http://secretsun.blogspot.com/2008/12/schoch-west-vindicated-on-sphinx.html (“and we’re sitting on the threshold of a time when information itself seems to be taking on a mind of its own. The Internet is creating a whole host of problems, but it’s also helped remove so many of the old filters and bottlenecks on the flow of information and data.”)

http://www.physorg.com/news148050302.html (This one’s really exciting.  Check this out: http://reclusland.tumblr.com/private/63971711/86aMlwW9Ghao7nbagcczK1E5)

“When this process fails,” wrote Walker in his collection of documents from and about Autodesk, “and it always does, that doesn’t seem to weaken the belief in a design process which, in reality, is as bogus as astrology. It’s always a bad manager, problems with tools, etc. – precisely the unpredictable factors which make a priori design impossible in the first place.” (the key point here being that preconceived designs that are meant to be completed before being introduced into reality do not work properly.  This comes from an inorganic way of thinking, that of plugging in of a complete part, instead of the cresting of a particluar wave of awareness.  This works for both as an example of the idea I am exploring, and an example of the way I hope to go about exploring it)