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From Robert Thayer’s “Three Dimensions of Technology in the American Landscape”
Grand gaming casino 1870’s.
"The ability to see the Earth as an astronomer would another planet marked a fundamental shift, the long-term effects of which we still cannot gauge. It has provided valuable new perspectives and treasure troves of data. But no image can reveal everything; and every revelation obscures something. For all that it is an image of the whole, the vision of the Earth from space is necessarily partial. By leaving things out, it makes the Earth too easy to objectify, too easy to hold at a distance, too easy to idealise. It needs to be offset by a deeper sense of the world as it is felt from the inside, and as it extends out of view into past and future. Because of the changes we are putting the planet through, we need as many ways of looking at and thinking about it as we can find. We need ways to see it as a history, a system, and a set of choices, not just a thing of beauty – one which, from our astronomical perspective, we seem already to have left. There are other ways to see the beauty of the world than in the rear-view mirror of progress."
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via spaceweather.com
"I’ve come to think that this conflation of progress/innovation and technology—specifically energy-generation technology—is one of the principal barriers to a bright green future."
Why Bill Gates is wrong | Grist
Smart writing from Dave Roberts.
“These are stills from the award-winning 2005 Russian mockumentary, First on the Moon… First on the Moon tells the tale of an unknown Soviet space program that launched a successful moon landing in 1938.” And in this space program, a cute little piglet is launched to the moon. Rad.
Fidel playing some ping pong. What’s with the American grip, though?
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