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Quote of the Week
In the 18th century, the Industrial Revolution was one of several revolutions that overturned society. Mechanical creatures intruded into farms and homes, but still this invasion had no name. Finally, in 1802, Johann Beckmann, an economics professor at Gottingen University gave this ascending force its name [technology] . . . He hoped his outline [a textbook titled Guide to Technology] would become the first course in the subject. It did that and more. It also gave a name to what we do. Once named, we could now see it. Having seen it, we wondered how anyone could not have seen it.
Source: Kevin Kelly, What Technology Wants
Posted: 2025 Oct 18Or check out this TEDxSF by Kelly.
Music of the Week
Author Archives: Isabel Gibson
Rainy-Day Problems
Yes, it really is a maintenance-without-end world. Continue reading
One Last Degree of Freedom?
A fall filosophy. Continue reading
Two Yards
How to live across from each other. Continue reading
How the How-it-Started Start is Going
Checking back in on that spring garden. Continue reading
Posted in Another Thing, Appreciating Deeply, How it Started, Photos of Flora
Tagged Flowers, Other Plants
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Fire on Glass
Not literally; just optically. Which could be the theme of the week. Continue reading
Posted in Appreciating Deeply, Photos of Landscapes
Tagged Reflections
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Things Landing on Cars
Not literally; just optically. Continue reading
I Shot the Photo . . .
These are cute, although they don’t really qualify as pareidolia as they’re intentional faces. Continue reading
More Sunflowers, Alberta
That’s an impressive planting of sunflowers. No mingy rows here. Continue reading
More Skeletal Faces
I *knew* there’d be another opportunity to check out the teaching/illustrating skeleton at the physiotherapist’s, and so there was. This first one reminds me of Jar Jar Binks in The Phantom Menace — technically the first Star Wars movie (historically, … Continue reading