final post on FUTURES

TO FABIO AND OTHERS READING THIS POST.  I learn as I compose these posts and I expect they may be useful, in some way, to a few. I realize I write to myself and the future. However, as I comment on frequently, this medium is not really suitable for deep diving in these issues and…

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DEEP FOCUS

This exploration was triggered by a comment to me by Fabio Barone in a private YW space:     Larry, maybe we are just too impatient…I am starting to think that the first foremost important issue to the level of collaboration and communication you are referring to maybe to drop our egos even more…if we who…

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PROJECTS: OBJECTIVES, PROCEDURES, EVALUATIONS – consequences

A mental exercise exploring the strange twists and turns of what we call reality. FACT-REALITY-FACT:   Almost all projects (public and private) proposed and conducted today are for legal and financial gains through the processes of doing the projects – NOT for accomplishing the project’s objectives. This is why projects to improve and maintain our infrastructure…

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DIALOG: Larry & Fabio on Big Challenges

These occurred in Google+ Larry Victor  Jan 24, 2013 WOW, my emotions were swept back and forth throughout this video. While I was excited about their creativity I felt a cloud akin to Genetic Engineering sinking down on me.  Do we really want to add this deep and detailed layer of digital everywhere?  What might…

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NuLook: ECONOMICS AND POWER/FORCE

INTRO This is only one small, but significant, piece in a large puzzle. The full comprehension of this piece occurs only in the context of this nu, large puzzle; not by attempting to squeeze it to fit more traditional puzzles it strives to challenge. Distinguish knowing and comprehending. This essay is one of many attempts…

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PATTERNS IN TIME

Musical compositions are patterns in time. Although a written score can be seen as a whole and a CD held in your hand – both are “static in time”, the music must unfurl as temporal texture to be experienced.  If “meaning” is to be gained from the music it comes from hearing it “over time”….

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QUERIES ABOUT WORLD HYPOTHESES

These queries may be presented to a gathering of about 60 persons on Jan 20, 2013 at Canyon Ranch in Tucson, AZ.  The gathering is to explore World Hypotheses in relationship to our sustainability challenge. These are not questions to be answered. They are queries to be explored after which a new pattern of activity…

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