Last week, the WEF released ‘Ai Governance Alliance: Briefing Paper Series 2024.’ Authored by 250 people from 200 organizations and none of them seem to understand that 'the medium is the message.'
Frank Zingroni was my favourite professor at York. One time he and your father addressed a large group of us in one of the big lecture halls. Probably 100 students.
They were hilarious and irreverent. They were very much mentors to me.
OK the medium is the message, my understanding 35 years later.
Electricity ended our mechanical reality by introducing lightspeed into human affairs thereby usurping time and space. All knowledge became available, instantaneously available with the consequence that our world imploded into a new type of Village. We live cheek by jowl and are subject to a deafening din of all voices all at once.
After 3000 years of specialization, explosion , owing to mechanical technology we have through the auspices of electricity, extended our central nervous system and consciousness to envelop the planet. Electricity is in effect and implosion and it put our world of explosion into reverse. With this we return to our spiritual roots as a tribe, holistic, desiring of experiencing things and people in totality and demanding emancipation from imposed patterns. He said there is a spirituality this new way, sans the limitations of time and space.
OK that’s enough.
I’m very glad I found you. Your grandfather and Plato‘s republic are my primary sources of understanding.
My name is RJ France I live in Toronto and I’ve been the owner of a security guard company called Paragon Security for the last 30 years. I fancy myself as Plato’s philosopher king.
Your grandfathers ideas are lost at our peril . He was correct beyond debate and the nature of his discovery, that technology shapes us, regardless of content, must be accounted for in all considerations, and as a precursor to all disciplines of inquiry.
I have found another example of this : Curtis Yarvin’s gray mirror, substack: a brief explanation of the cathedral. Like the medium is the message, the cathedral effect must be accounted for, in all circumstances: “
the selective advantage of dominant ideas, and the inability of recessive ideas to compete” must be taken into consideration and always.
Frank Zingroni was my favourite professor at York. One time he and your father addressed a large group of us in one of the big lecture halls. Probably 100 students.
They were hilarious and irreverent. They were very much mentors to me.
OK the medium is the message, my understanding 35 years later.
Electricity ended our mechanical reality by introducing lightspeed into human affairs thereby usurping time and space. All knowledge became available, instantaneously available with the consequence that our world imploded into a new type of Village. We live cheek by jowl and are subject to a deafening din of all voices all at once.
After 3000 years of specialization, explosion , owing to mechanical technology we have through the auspices of electricity, extended our central nervous system and consciousness to envelop the planet. Electricity is in effect and implosion and it put our world of explosion into reverse. With this we return to our spiritual roots as a tribe, holistic, desiring of experiencing things and people in totality and demanding emancipation from imposed patterns. He said there is a spirituality this new way, sans the limitations of time and space.
OK that’s enough.
I’m very glad I found you. Your grandfather and Plato‘s republic are my primary sources of understanding.
My name is RJ France I live in Toronto and I’ve been the owner of a security guard company called Paragon Security for the last 30 years. I fancy myself as Plato’s philosopher king.
Your grandfathers ideas are lost at our peril . He was correct beyond debate and the nature of his discovery, that technology shapes us, regardless of content, must be accounted for in all considerations, and as a precursor to all disciplines of inquiry.
I have found another example of this : Curtis Yarvin’s gray mirror, substack: a brief explanation of the cathedral. Like the medium is the message, the cathedral effect must be accounted for, in all circumstances: “
the selective advantage of dominant ideas, and the inability of recessive ideas to compete” must be taken into consideration and always.