I registered to go back to school for Spring quarter at Seattle Central Community College, the only essential class I could take was in math, but I decided to take Introduction to Chemistry as well as Human Genetics to keep up with science-related classes, as well as to brush me up for chemistry for summer quarter. Not too interesting, huh, the quarter doesn't even start until April 6 so this seems like useless information, but whatever, now you know.
So I was browsing the internet today, and, as I often do, I started thinking about what the internet truly means, you know, in the broader scheme of things. I always appreciate these lines of thinking, because not only can I think about new ways of using the internet, but I can actually use the internet to help broaden my views on whatever subject matter I choose to pursue. This led me to a line of thinking that maybe it's time the internet began to shift into a model that more closely imitates the human mind, and treat the internet more like what it is, a sort of collective consciousness.
Anyway, I started playing around with ideas in that vein, thinking about doing away with analog time and implementing weather and sun-positioning into a user-interface, things of that nature, but I quickly got bored and started browsing the internet for other cool, new, and innovative ideas, so one of my obvious stops was TED. I stumbled across two interesting talks this time, one being about the creative process, which I found personally quite stimulating because Elizabeth Gilbert didn't take the usual route of explaining the creative process as an innate power to be stirred on command, but the traditional ancient Greek method of treating creativity as a heavenly muse, a spiritual genius of sorts.
However the second talk really got to me, where Juan Enriquez pretty much sums up my entire viewpoint of how the future is going to play out. I don't want to spoil it, go ahead, watch it, I'll wait.
I wanted to think about the future in a realistic sense, and yet I'm starting to take a holistic approach to it. After all, everything I know comes from my own ability to perceive the world and make my own judgments, and I realize how easily one's own judgment can be swayed. My intuition tells me we're heading into a world that is quickly going to become one we can't really understand at this point, so the best thing one can do is at least try to prepare for it.
Oh yeah, in related news, turns out eating less improves memory. Good news for an information-hungry generation, I hope the research pans out.
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