#collective knowledge

[a-typical]

“Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species. I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.” ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

[solis-salutis]

Solarpunk Wiki

I read somewhere that the Solarpunk Wikipedia page was deleted for lack of formal sources. I don’t know much about wikipedia, but I was able to find legitimate sources. Can we band together and get that bad boi up again?

Other legitimate sources and citations: THE NEW UTOPIANS. By: HEER, JEET, New Republic, 00286583, Dec2015,  Vol. 246,  Issue 13

Bongiorno, Steven J. "Infrastructure: a visionary role in economic development." Industry Week 6 Dec. 1993: 39. Business Insights: Essentials. Web. 29 Aug. 2018. On the Political Dimensions of Solarpunk by Andrew Dana Hudson for MEDIUM

Where are the Radical Politics of Cyberpunk? by Cameron Kunzelman

https://waypoint.vice.com/en_us/article/ne5jg7/radical-politics-cyberpunk-2077

Imagining a SolarPunk Future TEDx by Keisha Howard

[salchicharandom]

[rudefairyrude]

train of thought #1

metro train tunnels -> deeper than most people would imagine -> only someone digging this tunnel would know how deep it is -> all the people using it cannot parse the depth to the extent a construction worker would have

=> there is a natural threshold for the amount of information a person can be saturated with during their lifetime and our collective knowledge has very quickly exceeded this threshold

[bykesattva]

Writing advice from my Theorizing notebook. Fall 2023.

[readontheinternet]

[future4bigcity]

Critical thinking

We are dealing with a huge overabundance of information. It became a problem to distinguish reliable information from unreliable one. 

Critical thinking becomes the most important skill that higher education gives. Knowledge does not make sense by themselves, but because of he volume  information and facts it is constantly updated. The set of knowledge that we receive in school and beyond, creates an image the picture of the world. Facts that are universally recognized become a collective knowledge, in the essence of not doubt. It is this knowledge that does not make us doubt the shape of our planet, the laws of physics, etc.

In Time Management for the rationalization our time advise never read news, but to receive already filtered information from friends. Such filters an additional check for the reliability of information.

[appalachianfuturism]

"At stake, according to Cerf, is "the possibility that the centuries well before ours will be better known than ours will be unless we are persistent about preserving digital content. The earlier media seem to have a kind of timeless longevity while modern media from the 1800s forward seem to have shrinking lifetimes. Just as the monks and Muslims of the Middle Ages preserved content by copying into new media, won't we need to do the same for our modern content?" As media becomes more ephemeral across technological generations, the more it depends on the technological generation that comes next. As the paper texts of just a few decades ago fade and crumble, their only hope is digitization. The historical record depends on future technology—necessarily—which is a bit unsettling. "It seems inescapable that our society will need to find its own formula for underwriting the cost of preserving knowledge in media that will have some permanence," Cerf concludes. "That many of the digital objects to be preserved will require executable software for their rendering is also inescapable. Unless we face this challenge in a direct way, the truly impressive knowledge we have collectively produced in the past 100 years or so may simply evaporate with time."