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Sep 25Liked by Seeds of Science

What a wonderful topic to write on! Very eager to read the next piece!

By way of some links:

I discovered Keri Smith's book (The Wander Society) just under a decade ago, and it's a delightful, imaginative invitation for walking and getting at least a little bit lost: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25853014-the-wander-society

I've also recently read Michael Bond's Wayfinding! (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52130354-wayfinding) It similarly covers many levels of our connection to navigation — brains, cities, culture, geography!

I really like the argument connecting wayfinding to the electronic world! For me, this is timely and novel. Thanks for the post!

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Sep 26Liked by Seeds of Science

The grid is an ultra interesting space, a network that connects people at unprecedented scale, and allows you to find all information of history in seconds: you can hear Cervantes and Homer for free in LibriVox, or have access to an Azure server to supercompute your latest mathematical idea.

You can have a soul crushing job in “grid maintaince” and in the afternoon, being an amateur scientist or hacker. Internet is your extended self, and reaches everywhere.

Years ago, to be a scientist or explorer you needed capital or social rank, and expensive instrumental. Now, you can download and mine massive databases of facts to test your ideas. We have ultra low cost possibilities for exploration.

The possibilities are there, and they are huge. Globalization means you can do far more from anywhere.

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Sep 26Liked by Seeds of Science

Funnily this is precisely what “the Matrix” was about. The dual nature of the Grid, massively empowering and alienating.

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Realistically, we probably won't be able to get rid of the Grid, non in a scalable manner (individually it is always an option). The question is how we can de-gridify the Grid from the inside. Maybe that's what Part 2 is about.

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more or less :)

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