Lots of good and riveting stories... thank you. And quince lurks in with my memory as quince jelly with a secret crab apple on the Common known only to our 'Granny'!😊👍
And thank for your references and dicussion on AI.👍 Indeed,'we' seem in rapid 'transition' and acceleration makes it different from memory, and I am from 40s-50s not 70s ... Acceleration is fossil fuelled ... nuclear is too slow ... 'renewables' very limited ... nevertheles for the next rapidly shortening while we are into exponential trends, 'doubling times', and the barking tranhumanist lunatics ... G'd help them!
Perhaps a few extra references might help us keep touch with realities? (Sorry about this!)
!. Bit of a story as to how and why, but this as far as I know is the only public copy of a 2019 letter by the mainly UK 'mining crowd' to the UK 'independent' statutory committee on Climate Change ... electrification of cars and light vans. It is an expert sketch of some preposterous numbers. And then there is the rest of 'transport'! NB This is an almost unused website among some friends but archives stuff including this unique letter https://bit.ly/40ASFNo
2. Also, but at my substack, are a couple of reviews of two books by Jeremy Naydler. I would be interested in your brother's opinion of Naydler's history of the intellectual provenance of the computer and the development of mechanised thinking (+electricity!). I started the substack with 'In the Shadow of the Machine'.
I have recently updated a review of Naydler's later book 'The Struggle for the Human Future' with my added references on resource demands of AI/5G and the more direct pollution implications. [There are plenty of better-known reviewers of Naydler' book(s), see Mark Vernon, and Sacasas at the Convivial Society']
3. Big message? When growth stops and in many places turns negative, 'our world' will use much decreased and decreasing amounts of electricity, probably only available intermittently. Mechanised thinking will lose it's essential energy unless 'it' can perhaps divert 'ours'?
4. My guess? 'We' will not 'transition' voluntarily because of climate change (a pity) but will experience a series of 'phase shifts', in some places more extreme. A great pity if we lose 'cancer diagnoses' and in my view our critical vaccines and their technology, and other helpful stuff, like knowledge etc, but it is difficult to imagine 'pick-an-choose'. My references are available. 😊
As someone who picked up a tick in the park at the end of my road, I know how deep these ticks have spread into society. My cousin even got bitten in her own back garden in Cranham! Seems like we’re all now likely to get bitten on our thumbs as we text! Bloody Auto-generated Interference.
It is indeed. Not sure if it is/has been deliberate or simply obvious, but convivial tools have long been my first choice--not least because I understand how they work.
Will you post a link to your conversation with Ingrid Reiser once it is recorded? Thanks for considering!
Hi, I will. I think she will be publishing as a podcast on Forest of Thought.
Lots of good and riveting stories... thank you. And quince lurks in with my memory as quince jelly with a secret crab apple on the Common known only to our 'Granny'!😊👍
And thank for your references and dicussion on AI.👍 Indeed,'we' seem in rapid 'transition' and acceleration makes it different from memory, and I am from 40s-50s not 70s ... Acceleration is fossil fuelled ... nuclear is too slow ... 'renewables' very limited ... nevertheles for the next rapidly shortening while we are into exponential trends, 'doubling times', and the barking tranhumanist lunatics ... G'd help them!
Perhaps a few extra references might help us keep touch with realities? (Sorry about this!)
!. Bit of a story as to how and why, but this as far as I know is the only public copy of a 2019 letter by the mainly UK 'mining crowd' to the UK 'independent' statutory committee on Climate Change ... electrification of cars and light vans. It is an expert sketch of some preposterous numbers. And then there is the rest of 'transport'! NB This is an almost unused website among some friends but archives stuff including this unique letter https://bit.ly/40ASFNo
2. Also, but at my substack, are a couple of reviews of two books by Jeremy Naydler. I would be interested in your brother's opinion of Naydler's history of the intellectual provenance of the computer and the development of mechanised thinking (+electricity!). I started the substack with 'In the Shadow of the Machine'.
I have recently updated a review of Naydler's later book 'The Struggle for the Human Future' with my added references on resource demands of AI/5G and the more direct pollution implications. [There are plenty of better-known reviewers of Naydler' book(s), see Mark Vernon, and Sacasas at the Convivial Society']
3. Big message? When growth stops and in many places turns negative, 'our world' will use much decreased and decreasing amounts of electricity, probably only available intermittently. Mechanised thinking will lose it's essential energy unless 'it' can perhaps divert 'ours'?
4. My guess? 'We' will not 'transition' voluntarily because of climate change (a pity) but will experience a series of 'phase shifts', in some places more extreme. A great pity if we lose 'cancer diagnoses' and in my view our critical vaccines and their technology, and other helpful stuff, like knowledge etc, but it is difficult to imagine 'pick-an-choose'. My references are available. 😊
Perhaps important that the Natural History Mueum letter to the Climate Committee was legitimately obtained ... and they all know about it.
“I am for convivial tools…” yes!! 🙌
A term from Ivan Illich...
No wonder it struck home - another great post Caroline. Thank you for taking up your space here.
As someone who picked up a tick in the park at the end of my road, I know how deep these ticks have spread into society. My cousin even got bitten in her own back garden in Cranham! Seems like we’re all now likely to get bitten on our thumbs as we text! Bloody Auto-generated Interference.
Thank you for this, Caro. The ticks are just beginning to slow down here, a welcome reprieve.
Phew. They were super keen to get well-acquainted.
Convivial tools! Oh my yes. What a heart warming and tool-loving phrase
Your life seems to be full of them too...
It is indeed. Not sure if it is/has been deliberate or simply obvious, but convivial tools have long been my first choice--not least because I understand how they work.