Archive for September, 2007

Monday, September 24th, 2007

Mime

“The world is getting smaller” was once an excuse for creating globally homogenized communications programs. And, by the way, it is still being done and in many instances successfully.

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Posted by David on 09/24 at 03:17 PM
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    Posted by Nemiroff on 2007-11-06 05:53:25
  • love the notion -- the ultimate take on the elevator idea presentation -- its like professional charades --
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    Posted by david sable on 2007-10-01 15:23:59
  • After a long hiatus, I'm back and able to participate (hopefully making worthwhile comments) - I work off site 98% and David's blog needed access from inside the LAN (or some other hurdle that IT couldn't crack)... Back in the about 93 when I was an academic I gave most of a lecture (on mathematical logic) in mime. Some former students ...
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    Posted by Tom Osborn on 2007-09-28 05:33:08
Monday, September 17th, 2007

Listening

Do we really listen? Do we really listen as “to pay attention; heed; obey’—as defined by the dictionary?
Or do we just hear—as in “to perceive by the ear “—also as defined by the dictionary.

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Posted by David on 09/17 at 03:39 PM
Monday, September 10th, 2007

Vacuum Tubes

As I plugged in my computer on the plane last night—I did some work, while listening to music from my hard drive. And lest you think I’m pandering (or looking for the sympathy vote or worse, “the look how hard I work spiel”), I actually spent more time watching 300 (a movie worth seeing) with my noise-buster headphones in full screen, up close and personal, than I did in PowerPoint or Word…

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Posted by David on 09/10 at 04:56 PM
  • My point -- so how do we anticipate transistors in a world where we cannot even fathom their creation? Look at Jules Verne; Asimov; vs real scientists -- seems to me that often the creators are more limited -- despite their brilliance -- than the sheer creative types who relish teh ideas but are not limited by their own technolgy
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    Posted by david sable on 2007-09-11 17:15:29
  • Even people who are forward thinkers get caught up in the status quo. " I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." Thomas watson, CEO, IBM, 1943 We all need to think beyond the present horizon.
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    Posted by Richard Tooker on 2007-09-10 22:49:39
  • "What were they (the editors of Popular Mechanics) thinking? Was it a lack of imagination or a lack of vision? Or did they just not have enough “critical mass” in High Tech to be able to envision the future as we are now experiencing it." They weren't lacking anything. You immediately applied their comment to an infinite horizon. They were ...
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    Posted by Glenn White on 2007-09-10 17:28:11