There is so much occuring. Many changes each day, like grains of sand moving through the hour glass. With fresh eyes we see the world as it is and as it is becoming. Today, social media and tomorrow, the world. Our societies are fast merging, melding, coupling. In little time we will be one, brothers […]
Tag Archives: Society
Physical Determinism vs Cultural Difference
I need to thank my urban studio professors for somehow selecting me as the one student in our section to read Peter Calthorpe’s The Next American Metropolis in order to brief my peers. The book is written by a practitioner and not a pure academic. It may just be me, but it appeals. I find it […]
On Beauty
Recently I’ve been thinking about beauty again. In school I hear philosophers attempt to define it, often relegating it to a certain realm of aesthetics. So… it seems that there is a fairly definable debate occurring that is seeking to pin beauty down. One might even describe it as the struggle between Gaston and the […]
We Are Not Doomed…
In an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle the respected venture capitalist Vinod Khosla asserts that: Anything that requires people to change their habits has a low probability of success. He goes on to say that his assertion has “been proven over and over again” and that it is now an accepted truth in the […]
Light a Candle…
In the developed world, and in most urban environments throughout the world, electricity is taken as a guarantee. What then of the day that energy production stumbles? How many of us have candles in our homes? Why do we have these relics of an age without electrical generation? Do we have these artifacts of the […]
Following up on the Small World
The concept of the Small World and the chain-links gripped me. This post follows on that discussion. A fascinating game grew out of this discussion. One of us suggested performing the following experiment to prove that the population of the Earth is closer together now than they have ever been before. We should select any […]
Our Small World
I’m not sure how I stumbled upon the following … but I did … In 1929 a Hungarian author named Frigyes Karinthy published a volume of short stories titled Everything is Different. One of these pieces was titled Chains, or Chain-Links. The story investigated in abstract, conceptual, and fictional terms, which are many of the […]