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It’s also true though there’s a lot to be skeptical of, and it was also an education of sorts to go down the rabbit hole and read his Synergetics textbooks and discover he makes endless assertions that are not supported and also hard to parse.
I'm not sure what's going on with the ordering of the sections, but it's definitely creative. - 01: Section 1 - 02: Section 11 - 03: Section 10 ... - 10: Section 3 - 11: Section 2 - 12: Section 12
At any rate, the videos just say "Video unavailable" / "This video is unavailable" although there are transcripts.
For those unfamiliar with Bucky, I highly recommend his book Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth. Its a short, light read. He has a really interesting take on technology’s role in pirates and he was a firm believer that there is enough resources for everyone. He even talks about the US’s vulnerability to an attack on its water system. https://archive.org/details/operatingmanualforspaceshipearth...
I particularly love how clear his POV on design is. Put simply, he believes good design (and technology) boils down to doing more with less.
Others have written in reply that ephemeralization as he calls it (doing more with less) can help us solve physical problems. But it can also make non-physical problems worse. As systems become more complex and produce more information, the people who maintain them can have more difficulty and stress
I remember this comic about Energy Slaves: https://www.stuartmcmillen.com/comic/energy-slaves/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_slave
I'm not sure what's going on with the ordering of the sections, but it's definitely creative. - 01: Section 1 - 02: Section 11 - 03: Section 10 ... - 10: Section 3 - 11: Section 2 - 12: Section 12
alphabetical order by title in ASCII terms instead of section At any rate, the videos just say "Video unavailable" / "This video is unavailable" although there are transcripts.
I'm not sure what's going on with the ordering of the sections, but it's definitely creative. - 01: Section 1 - 02: Section 11 - 03: Section 10 ... - 10: Section 3 - 11: Section 2 - 12: Section 12
alphabetical order by title in ASCII terms instead of section At any rate, the videos just say "Video unavailable" / "This video is unavailable" although there are transcripts.
For those unfamiliar with Bucky, I highly recommend his book Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth. Its a short, light read. He has a really interesting take on technology’s role in pirates and he was a firm believer that there is enough resources for everyone. He even talks about the US’s vulnerability to an attack on its water system. https://archive.org/details/operatingmanualforspaceshipearth...
I remember this comic about Energy Slaves: https://www.stuartmcmillen.com/comic/energy-slaves/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_slave
Kind of like the energy slave idea.
Am I understanding correctly that around 1997 a single person transcribed 42 hours of recordings? Wild and impressive. I wonder how long it took them? Modern tools would likely do it in 42 minutes?
At max, two full work weeks for a lightly trained amateur to transcribe 42 hours of decent but not great quality audio. A professional could do it in near realtime. For me, it is notable that this is notable for you. This used to be as ubiquitous of a profession in modern organizations as typists were. Many people's entire job was going to meetings and/or listening to calls, transcribing the conversation, not just ta…