“You should view the world as a conspiracy run by a very closely-knit group of nearly omnipotent people, and you should think of those people as yourself and your friends.” - Robert Anton Wilson
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Monday, August 20, 2012
Monday, July 23, 2012
Robert Anton Wilson Day in OM
Santa Cruz marked 23 July as Robert Anton Wilson Day on their calendar, and for a few years we European students met up face-to-face on that day (also the first of The Dog Days) just for the hell of it, though we seem to have slipped, for now.
Obsolete Magazine (OM) has a celebratory post in honor of the day - which you can read here.
Note:
Obsolete Magazine (OM) has a celebratory post in honor of the day - which you can read here.
Note:
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Turning Information into Knowledge?
Google Knowledge Graph getting rolled out as a new model.
As the Google car drove past my house this morning, updating the view of the street where I live, I took it as a small synchronicity hint that I should also give this new model a try today. I tried Bob:
Of course, this display will shift with the Feedback button under the thumbnails, but above you can see an initial sample.
Article on Mashable about this service (The long-awaited "Semantic Web" aka Knowledge Graph).
Give it a try, maybe?
Wilson: All we can say now is we got a model that seems to work -- for the present. It probably won't work in another ten years; the lifetime of models is getting shorter.
Walker: Why is this?
Wilson: Because of the information explosion: information is doubling faster all the time. It took from the time of Jesus to the time of Leonardo for one doubling of knowledge. The next doubling of knowledge was completed before the American Revolution, the next one by 1900, the next one by 1950, the next one by 1960. You see how [it keeps] moving faster? Now knowledge is doubling every eighteen months.
With all these new bits, bytes, blips of information, no model can last long because models only include the bytes of information that were available when the model was made. As new bytes of information come in it gets harder and harder to adjust our old models to include the new blips and beeps of information, so we've got to make new models.
KBOO-FM Interview with Robert Anton Wilson
by Cliff Walker
The 1990 (or so) interview with Robert Anton Wilson on KBOO FM, Portland, Oregon
Also check out the RAW Links on Bob's website
As the Google car drove past my house this morning, updating the view of the street where I live, I took it as a small synchronicity hint that I should also give this new model a try today. I tried Bob:
Of course, this display will shift with the Feedback button under the thumbnails, but above you can see an initial sample.
Article on Mashable about this service (The long-awaited "Semantic Web" aka Knowledge Graph).
Give it a try, maybe?
Wilson: All we can say now is we got a model that seems to work -- for the present. It probably won't work in another ten years; the lifetime of models is getting shorter.
Walker: Why is this?
Wilson: Because of the information explosion: information is doubling faster all the time. It took from the time of Jesus to the time of Leonardo for one doubling of knowledge. The next doubling of knowledge was completed before the American Revolution, the next one by 1900, the next one by 1950, the next one by 1960. You see how [it keeps] moving faster? Now knowledge is doubling every eighteen months.
With all these new bits, bytes, blips of information, no model can last long because models only include the bytes of information that were available when the model was made. As new bytes of information come in it gets harder and harder to adjust our old models to include the new blips and beeps of information, so we've got to make new models.
KBOO-FM Interview with Robert Anton Wilson
by Cliff Walker
The 1990 (or so) interview with Robert Anton Wilson on KBOO FM, Portland, Oregon
Also check out the RAW Links on Bob's website
Saturday, June 16, 2012
HAPPY BLOOMSDAY!
"When, lo, there came about them all a great brightness and they beheld the chariot wherein He stood ascend to heaven. And they beheld Him in the chariot, clothed upon in the glory of the brightness, having raiment as of the sun, fair as the moon and terrible that for awe they durst not look upon Him. And there came a voice out of heaven, calling: Elijah! Elijah! And he answered with a main cry: Abba! Adonai! And they beheld Him even Him, ben Bloom Elijah, amid clouds of angels ascend to the glory of the brightness at an angle of fortyfive degrees over Donohoe's in Little Green Street like a shot off a shovel."
– JAMES JOYCE, ULYSSES
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