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Confabulation
working notes fr FF.
external / rational
- can we use predictions to help separate/isolate important, predictable events within a “A Nonpredictive View of the World”? (cf. fragility → robustness → antifragility)
- what is the question? can it be answered diceisively at a particualr point in the future? what is at stake? what are the consequences or impacts?
internal / irrational
- divination / invocation
software & protocols
- open formats > closed formats
- utf-8 > ascii/latin-1/etc+
- documents
- utf-8 text or ODF (libreoffice, openoffice) for editable docs
- pdf for reference & archiving
- VUE for diagrams
- semi syncronous; email, twitter, irc (freenode → #ff ?)
- asyncronous; dokuwiki, django, gitlab
- algorithmic sketching; racket, common lisp, python, git
- online
- libarynth for text, tangents and collation → http://libarynth.org
- flickr for image matter → https://secure.flickr.com/photos/foam/
- vimeo for video matter → http://vimeo.com/fo4m
- zotero for library and references → https://www.zotero.org/groups/foam_library
- potentially
- tumblr, cargo, diasp, other?
- prediction book
- wikipedia
reading/notes
- various scifi threads re. possible future cultures, shifting relation between humans & their environment, exploration of 'biosphere dividend'. near and far futures
- bloom, ventus, mars trilogy, incrementalists, etc+
- “A History of the Future in 100 Objects ” » notes and quotes
- 'the culture' (iain_m_banks)
- The Hermetic Library reading room » http://hermetic.com/reading-room/
- Erwin Wagenhofer's movie about the crisis of creativity in education: http://www.alphabet-film.com/