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Lumia images

  • Lumia_test0001
    These Lumia images are pure abstraction made of sunlight that is bent, twisted, and made playful. There are no solid objects, or objects of any kind in these images. Each slide was made using a hand-held Nikon 35 mm camera.

Industrial Artifacts

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    Industrial Artifacts are part of a continuing photographic series. I use materials like these in making Assemblage sculpture.

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October 2005

October 14, 2005

The Daemons Are In The Details

Several effects of complexity compound human errors within networked computing and communication, increasing the disorder of human society. In time, the interlinkages among computers and people will inevitably become increasingly error laden amounting to serious proportion of the content in any channel (as an accumulating and published expression of various other dysfunctions) propagating seriously destructive impacts upon the smooth transactions within the society within which they have been placed. All this happens with the good-hearted intention of producing improvements in data integration, utility, speed, and economy. This is a predictable, inherent, and inevitable factorial dysfunction. Here are only a few of the ways chaos overwhelms us.

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Thinkers

  • Irene Pepperberg
    Irene studies cognitive process, teaching and learning in birds. She is problably the most recognized researcher on avian cognition in the world. Alex died at half his life expectancy recently. Now Wart, and Griffin, are her African Gray collaborators. They are saying and doing things we used to believe that only small children, great apes, and Dolphins could do. Her brilliant work deserves better funding. Our own amazing African Grays are not as well educated as those in Irene's lab, but their spontaneous utterances, well beyond mimicry, are proof that the avian abilities she describes are not an odd mutation, fluke or an unusual 'talent' unique to a particular bird.
  • Nova Spivack
    Nova is a cognitive scientist and high-tech entrepreneur working on technolgies for overcoming information overload. He has founded companies and is now developing interactive internet software, TWINE, that we all need. His thinking covers a great range. He is my Son. http://novaspivack.typepad.com/
  • Marin Spivack
    Composer, saxophonist, Teacher of Tai Chi in Salem, Massachusetts; Chen style Instruction in authentic Taiji martial arts, Qi cultivation, Tai Chi DVD videos. Chen Zhaokui Martial Arts Research Association, North America
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