"… just one aspect of a historical process
that we can legitimately call 'progress' –
not a romantic or utopian or naive ideal,
but an empirical fact that we can see
in graphs and numbers."
… and sometimes elsewhere . . .
Saturday, January 7, 2023
Important Product
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Tuesday, November 18, 2014
Our Most Important Product
Hexagram 35:
Progress
"Then came a 'Robot Psychologist,' known as a Psychological Matrix Rotator,
developed for the Department of Defense. It is still used to literally 'see' that
the right man gets the right Army job."
— Ronald Reagan, 1961 GE Sales Meeting
"Always with a little humor." — Yen Lo
In memory of Dr. Irving Peress,
who reportedly died on Thursday,
November 13, 2014.
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Thursday, March 16, 2017
Product
"Human perception is a saga of created reality."
— Don DeLillo, Point Omega
See "Important Product" in this journal and the previous post.
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Monday, November 24, 2014
“What Reality?”
"We tried to create new realities overnight,
careful sets of words that resemble advertising slogans
in memorability and repeatability."
… Our Most Important Product …
"Omega is as real as we need it to be."
— Burt Lancaster in Sam Peckinpah's last film
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Tuesday, November 18, 2014
The Abacus Conundrum…
Prequel from 1961 (click image for context):
Detail that may be interpreted as the Chinese
3×3 "Holy Field" and a Chinese temple bell—
"Ting-a-ling." — Kurt Vonnegut.
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