Hazel Henderson audio interview with "Massive Change"; re: Brazil's Lula rewins for Revolution ongoing

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Hazel Henderson Interview. September 9, 2003.

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How is the field of economics dealing with technological change?
This is the interesting thing. Part of the thesis in most of my books critiquing the traditional economics is that they missed the most important driving variable in the whole economic process -the evolution of technology and the unfolding of the Industrial Revolution itself. Which is really all about change. Economic theory considers technology as a given. This is why economics, I’ve always said, is backing into the future looking through the rear view mirror.

Both Marshall McLuhan and Bruce Sterling have said that a good futurist is one who can predict the present. Do you agree?
I think that’s a good way of saying it. There’s another thing about being a futurist, and it relates to personal responsibility for the future. In other words, we are all making the future every minute that we live, by way of our collective and individual decisions. If we think of it like that, everybody is really a futurist....con. at @>>>

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EPHEMERALIZATION

Fuller arrived at this concept in 1922 (see Reader, p.16) and devotes a chapter to it in Nine Chains. The term denotes:

"the principle of doing ever more with ever less weight, time and energy per each given level of functional performance". (Synergetics 2, 792.52)

Critical Path (p.232) defines it as:

"the invisible chemical, metallurgical, and electronic production of ever-more-efficient and satisfyingly effective performance with the investment of ever-less weight and volume of materials per unit function formed or performed".

Ephemeralization is a fruit of synergy. (N.B., it has nothing to do with the production of ephemera, as Pawley (p.174) imagines: in one sentence this author manages to misconstrue both of the above key concepts.)

It is an important principle for Fuller because of his concern with performance and resources. Ephemeralization also underlies Fuller's conception of Change Curves, which form a part of his discussions of history.

Computers are obvious exemplifications of ephemeralization. Today's pocketful of computing power was a roomful not long ago. The extreme case of all this is that of Quantum Devices.

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Entangled in the Matrix Net

DOROTHY WOODEND

Globe and Mail Update

VANCOUVER — I'm having a Matrix moment. You know the feeling: a vague sinking sensation when reality seems as if it is being simulated inside an enormous computer. A neo-Neo moment.

This week, Google bought YouTube for $1.65-billion. YouTube, in case you've been dead or under a large rock, is the website where you can view videos that people have uploaded to the Internet. Only a little more than a year old, it has the largest library of videos available on the Web. Most of them are pretty silly, but in among the shots of people getting hit in the crotch, and croc hunter Steve Irwin being fatally barbed by a stingray, are some other more curious offerings

McLuhan Marshall Playboy interview from March , "1969"

PLAYBOY: Despite your personal distaste for the upheavals induced by the new electric technology, you seem to feel that if we understand and influence its effects on us, a less alienated and fragmented society may emerge from it. Is it thus accurate to say that you are essentially optimistic about the future?

MCLUHAN: There are grounds for both optimism and pessimism. The extensions of man's consciousness induced by the electric media could conceivably usher in the millennium, but it also holds the potential for realizing the Anti-Christ--Yeats' rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouching toward Bethlehem to be born. Cataclysmic environmental changes such as these are, in and of themselves, morally neutral; it is how we perceive them and react to them that will determine their ultimate psychic and social consequences. If we refuse to see them at all, we will become their servants. It's inevitable that the world-pool of electronic information movement will toss us all about like corks on a stormy sea, but if we keep our cool during the descent into the maelstrom, studying the process as it happens to us and what we can do about it, we can come through.

Personally, I have a great faith in the resiliency and adaptability of man, and I tend to look to our tomorrows with a surge of excitement and hope. I feel that we're standing on the threshold of a liberating and exhilarating world in which the human tribe can become truly one family and man's consciousness can be freed from the shackles of mechanical culture and enabled to roam the cosmos. I have a deep and abiding belief in man's potential to grow and learn, to plumb the depths of his own being and to learn the secret songs that orchestrate the universe. We live in a transitional era of profound pain and tragic identity quest, but the agony of our age is the labor pain of rebirth.

I expect to see the coming decades transform the planet into an art form; the new man, linked in a cosmic harmony that transcends time and space, will sensuously caress and mold and pattern every facet of the terrestrial artifact as if it were a work of art, and man himself will become an organic art form. There is a long road ahead, and the stars are only way stations, but we have begun the journey. To be born in this age is a precious gift, and I regret the prospect of my own death only because I will leave so many pages of man's destiny--if you will excuse the Gutenbergian image--tantalizingly unread. But perhaps, as I've tried to demonstrate in my examination of the postliterate culture, the story begins only when the book closes.

YouTube Blogging PodCasting Printing Press TV Station Radio Film

Eric Picard says:

"That's all ending.

Marshall McLuhan envisioned everyone having his own television channel. He was really talking about the Internet's promise -- and that was only a piece of the story. He didn't quite envision the complexity of social networking, and we're only now beginning to see the power that will evolve from the intricate web of connections that are forming and what those will mean. One thing that will become quickly apparent is that if people can share media content that they're passionate about with their personal networks, their friends will consume those media.

Remove the constraints from content distribution, and you suddenly arrive in a strange new world. And as we saw with Napster and the music industry, the entrenched media business doesn't handle sea changes very well. TV is trying. The networks recognize they need to figure out the Internet. My last column discussed financial models the networks should use to sell media over the Internet. But I didn't have time to cover distribution in detail.

Owners of content in all media types have struggled with what open distribution will mean to them. RSS (define) was one of the first technologies to gain wide adoption in content distribution, but advertising support was simply not thought through very well. And as soon as good DRM (define) was available,

Psychedelic ReSearch takes off in vancouver, B. C. , long history of dosing

Psychedelics Could Treat Addiction Says Vancouver Official

City's drug policy honcho sees 'profound benefits'. A special report.

View full article and comments here http://thetyee.ca/News/2006/08/09/Psychedelics/

By Danielle Egan

Published: August 9, 2006

TheTyee.ca

Vancouver's top drug policy official and B.C. public health physicians believe addicts might be treated by giving them psychedelic drugs, and they hope the city will lead in exploring the controversial approach.

In the late 1950s, New Westminster-based Hollywood Hospital was a leader in therapeutic psychedelics, almost a decade before Timothy Leary encouraged the masses to "turn on, tune in and drop out" on acid. Founded by eccentric American entrepreneur Al Hubbard, Hollywood Hospital catered to a mixed clientele of American celebrities and Canadian politicians given LSD to treat alcoholism, drug addiction and psychological burn-out. For almost a decade after LSD was criminalized in North America in the late 1960s, Hollywood Hospital served up therapeutic LSD before the provincial government pulled funding in 1975 and the hospital closed.

One Canadian Medical Association Journal paper written by University of Toronto professor Harold Kalant in 2001 discussed the varied potentially fatal risks of taking street ecstasy but he added that there was "no evidence" that taking the drug would lead to addiction and even said that the drug "may be of potential value as an aid in psychotherapy" though "similar claims were made earlier for MDA, LSD and other hallucinogens but...no lasting benefit was found in a 10-year follow-up study of patients treated with LSD" and "no comparable study has been conducted on patients treated with MDMA."

The recommendations in the reports by the city of Vancouver and the Health Officers Council of B.C. have also turned on American researchers. "Those reports touch on the vanguard of treatment efforts with substance abuse and are a common-sense approach to drug abuse treatment and harm reduction," said Dennis McKenna, an ethnopharmacologist and psychedelic drug researcher based in Minnesota who plans to return to Vancouver to research Amazonian plants this September at BCIT. McKenna, a "child of the 60s," started sampling psychedelics in the Haight-Ashbury, area of San Francisco, then split for the Amazon to sample psilocybin with his brother Terrence, who detailed their trips in the book True Hallucinations.

http://thetyee.ca/News/2006/08/09/Psychedelics/print.html

The Net , Das Netz : LSD Lone Nuts Placebo Zombies

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R U Sirius covers Erik Davis' book, Visionary Kaliformulae + audio interview

California's theme park of the gods�, in all its chaos and contradiction, is so fecund that it is inherently valuable. Our spiritual nuts, fruits and flakes are an important part of the richness of California' s dynamic psycho-social, economic, and even physical landscape.

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R U Sirius interviews audio Erik Davis

THE VISIONARY STATE:
A JOURNEY THROUGH CALIFORNIA'S SPIRITUAL LANDSCAPE

By Erik Davis
Photographs by Michael Rauner

Chronicle Books, June 2006
80,000 words, 272 pages, 164 photographs, 9 5/8" x 9 5/8"
$40.00