Sunday, 16 August 2009

Methods of nonviolence

  1. Lobby and negotiation
  2. Trade
  3. Research
  4. Humour
  5. Faith
  6. Art
  7. Medicine

Sunday, 2 August 2009

Advice for games

  1. make a subgoal a victory and a new starting point for a game so that you can make these easily you can then feel like a winner every time
  2. ask too much when trading and the partner will be confused and maybe give a up more than necessary
  3. have two traders one goodfella the other a scrooge

Conflict

a few things about conflicts
  1. world is getting less violent
  2. conflicts are mainly caused by poverty if there is also an identity difference
  3. employment rise decreases violence?
  4. economic interdependence reduces conflicts(contra Katherine Barbieri, pro )
  5. reduction of strategic interdependence reduces conflicts
  6. if creativity is allowed conflicts reduce
  7. conflicts come after trade in certain sectors increases 

Sign-Write-Code

History of communication has had the phases of making symbols, writing text, and developing programs although i was thinking of puting hypertext in there but then again that is part of the way of writing as it was already in use thousands of years ago. Side notes in scriptures served as hyperlinked paragraphs.

One of my predictions for the future sees kids learning programming in schools just as we learn writing.
I also see a similarity in how Christians taught common people to write in their schools and that changed The Roman Empire and made it fall.
Would programming skills cause the same for the Western civilization i ponder? Perhaps a transformation.
Programmers have allowed many insights on the the hidden rules of the world and the paradigm of mappers(creative innovators, rule makers) and packers (behaving habit addicts). Perhaps this will get more people through a barrier of the mundane one day and join in on creativity.

Estonia has started an agenda to teach programming from primary school. Although England already tried to teach programming BASIC to everyone and the program was later discontinued.

Saturday, 1 August 2009

Money raindance

As it is possible to describe one pattern as an other in terms of the rules within the system it is conceivable to see people dancing or composing music to describe business patterns.

or dancing to compose music

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