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“The internet, as we have known it, has evolved from a quaint, quirky place to a social utopia, and then to an algorithmic reality. In this reality, the primary task of these platforms is not about idealism or even entertainment — it is about extracting as much revenue as possible from human vanity, avarice, and narcissism.”

Fuller cautions: Specialization tends to shut off the wide-band tuning searches and thus to preclude further discovery.

The movie world was never the same after that film. As well as being an all-time blockbuster masterpiece, Star Wars was an absolute game-changer that truly showed what the medium could really do with its innovative special effects. The film, unsurprisingly, inspired many across the industry, and Cameron was very much one of them. Although he adored... See more

Today, the concept of synergy permeates everything from boardrooms to artspeak to hipster dinner party chatter — but it was Fuller who coined it as cultural currency in pioneering the study of synergetics, which concerns itself with the “behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts taken separately.”

We would argue that this suggests three things about the entities that SETI searches could reveal:

They will not be organic or biological.

They will not remain on the surface of the planet where their biological precursors lived.

We will not be able to fathom their motives or intentions.

This is an opinion and analysis article, and the views expressed... See more

The tendency to put off, push away, or otherwise delay is strong. No. Act and move on. And act again if you have to — most decisions are temporary, anyway.

Companies don’t have communication problems, they have miscommunication problems. The smaller the company, group, or team, the fewer opportunities for miscommunication. As Osmo Wiio said, “If communication can fail, it will. If a message can be understood in different ways, it will be understood in just that way which does the most harm.”