like Pavlov’s dog
phantom’s vibrations
~5:30 artificial intelligence: context awareness
friction
ubiquitous computing
~7:20 the electricity analogy
History repeats itself, which it usually does, …
El conocimiento del pasado solo es valioso en la medida que brinde una perspectiva del futuro.
(El combustible para la innovacion. p. 9)
Smart Things to Know About Knowledge Management
Thomas M. Koulopoulus and Carl Frappaolo
1999.
Why Does Cynthia Ozick Write? ‘I Simply Must,’ She Says
July 17, 2016
http://www.npr.org/2016/07/17/486172884/why-does-cynthia-ozick-write-i-simply-must-she-says
On why she writes
Because I can’t not. I mean, what else am I going to do with my life? That’s another way of putting it. I simply must. Writers simply can’t help themselves. In a way they’re sort of like the queen of England. Every writer is doomed to his or her profession. What else is the queen going to do with her life? She was born a queen; she’s stuck. And writers are stuck, too.
Guaman Poma’s Inca Chronicle
National Library of Denmark
http://www.kb.dk/en/nb/tema/poma/index.html
The Inca-Chronicle was June 2007 nominated on UNESCO’s Memory of the World list.
Guaman Poma’s extensive so-called Inca Chronicle is an account of the history of the Andean region from the earliest times, as well as a series of proposed reforms of the Spanish colonial rule.
The long prose text is written in Spanish with occasional use of Quechua, one of the local Indian languages.
Poma himself both wrote the text by hand and drew the nearly 400 full page illustrations.
These drawings graphically express the suffering of the people under Spanish rule.
June:
http://www.kb.dk/permalink/2006/poma/248/en/text/?open=id2974245
‘Manifest Injustice’: A 40-Year Fight For Freedom
January 27, 2013
http://www.npr.org/2013/01/27/170005121/manifest-injustice-a-40-year-fight-for-freedom
“There’s not liberty and justice for all; there is liberty and justice for those who can afford it,” Macumber says. “It is a disease that affects this nation today …”
An Iconic ‘Life’ Image You Must See
by Kainaz Amaria
January 27, 2013
http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2013/01/27/170276058/an-iconic-life-image-you-must-see
[an] image … made in 1966 and titled Reaching Out.
image capt uring the superlatives of humanity
The gesture demands the utmost compassion, while the landscape illuminates the apocalyptic nature of the conflict. It’s the paradox of war; finding evidence of compassion within a hellish circumstance.
