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Man won’t do to machine that which he/she doesn’t want to be done unto. Vice versa. We need to cope and harness those hockey-stick rises of the Second Machine Age thanks to information technology – where muscles gave ways to machine then to mind. Machine and mind don’t need a massage, nor do they need…
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Being on the Southernest tip of Vietnam, with map in hand, and Monte Cristo on the other, I imagine myself holding a local map, seeking a promised treasurse and all the justice delayed, hence denied. Dumas truly is a Master Storyteller. I read this in translation, but it still held me captive: story about a…
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You learn a lot about people via how they live, love, fight, compromise and consume. You learn a lot more (without waiting for archeological digs) via how they die and say goodbyes to loved ones. In the West, where my father finally made to, after 10 years of living alone in our two-storied house, then…
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Routine is routine: brush your teeth, set the alarm and off to bed. But some nights are different: a hang-over or a guest over-stayed his/her welcome. Some life never sees daylight. They call them (in Japan) the modern-day hermits, estimated about 1.5 million youngsters. Unable to wake up and to talk up a conversation. All…
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Abraham had faith, Ok, go ahead and kill your son. Noah! Build the boat. Columbus? Sail it. Boat People – Get on the boat: 50-50 chance. Southern blacks had faith. OK, followed the Underground Railroad, went North. When Detroit bankrupted, Obama had to bail them out, since “what’s good for GM is good for the…
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1963 June 11. Police was trying to prevent us from pouring onto the intersection, then, Le v Duyet & Phan D Phung. The circle of chanting monks had formed when we got there acting upon a rumor that a monk would burn himself in protest against regime’s religious oppression. Bang. On our quickest feet to…
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Plant, animal and human grow organically. Human invention, the machine, grows exponentially. Mould vs math. Maslow scale vs machine scale. Slowly, we proceed up the steps, from food, clothing and shelter, onto Bill-Gates type of self-actualizing. Machine model proceeds at physical layer, then transmission, then network and application one. After the initial Y2K chasm, IT…
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Medieval Europe saw the invention of technology ( agrarian) as means for man to finally be divorced from and rise above nature: tilting, harnessing, plowing, cultivating and having “dominion over the land and seas”. God-man-nature. Then man got all the wiser (having listened to the serpent): why not tilting, extracting and prospering without bound i.e.…
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Every once in a while, we see a re-run of the Outsiders, the Misfits etc… good ole Wild West. But in closer scrutiny, we find that each of us is unique, with various strands of genome, not as homogeneous as our school uniforms might like to suggest. Hence, we all are Unfits. No need to…
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Some people are born to do certain things. You can say they are mere instruments for pro- creation. They might do it laying down ( Michelangelo) or in a car (Jewel). I respect them, adore them, emulate them. Be authentic, be true to your calling and vocation. It’s better to be a mask-maker (or costumes…
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