Comments on: Socio-technological imagination? http://christopherbaker.net/2006/08/21/socio-technological-imagination/ Artist, designer and engineer. Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:00:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Matt Waxman http://christopherbaker.net/2006/08/21/socio-technological-imagination/#comment-23 Matt Waxman Thu, 07 Sep 2006 23:56:39 +0000 http://christopherbaker.net/2006/08/21/107/#comment-23 So true, so true! Plus, if you take note of all the similar things out there you can use it as evidence to support your thesis in a paper or project on the subject. And you can build coalitions and community around shared themes and common vision! (I was going to write something similar as the last commenter, too.) So true, so true! Plus, if you take note of all the similar things out there you can use it as evidence to support your thesis in a paper or project on the subject. And you can build coalitions and community around shared themes and common vision! (I was going to write something similar as the last commenter, too.)

]]> By: Thomas Asmuth http://christopherbaker.net/2006/08/21/socio-technological-imagination/#comment-22 Thomas Asmuth Sat, 26 Aug 2006 20:11:51 +0000 http://christopherbaker.net/2006/08/21/107/#comment-22 Chasing the Zeitgeist? The human mind or particularly the Western civilization's consciousness (which expertly influenced this author) continues to be in love with the romantic notion of being the 'author of prima materia'. This entepenurial notion, perhaps helpful in the drive toward innovative thinking, causes undue concern and consternation upon the discovery that another mind is or has been researching the same important ideas. I suppose that many of us are too fragile to immediatately realize that our work has just been confirmed. I cannot count the number of times, I cursed the earth upon the discovery of a completed project I was still designing. Another mind out there completely independent of our direct relationships, follies, and education has found the same subject fascinating?? incredible! And if we can step out of our fragility for a moment we will see that human history is rife with examples of concurrent R&D from the unacquainted. I propose that there is no higher compliment or a better example of that we are connected in unimaginable ways. Excuse me now, I need to go sulk... someone else already wrote this. Thomas Asmuth CADRE Laboratory for New Media Chasing the Zeitgeist? The human mind or particularly the Western civilization’s consciousness (which expertly influenced this author) continues to be in love with the romantic notion of being the ‘author of prima materia’. This entepenurial notion, perhaps helpful in the drive toward innovative thinking, causes undue concern and consternation upon the discovery that another mind is or has been researching the same important ideas.

I suppose that many of us are too fragile to immediatately realize that our work has just been confirmed. I cannot count the number of times, I cursed the earth upon the discovery of a completed project I was still designing.

Another mind out there completely independent of our direct relationships, follies, and education has found the same subject fascinating?? incredible! And if we can step out of our fragility for a moment we will see that human history is rife with examples of concurrent R&D from the unacquainted. I propose that there is no higher compliment or a better example of that we are connected in unimaginable ways.

Excuse me now, I need to go sulk… someone else already wrote this.

Thomas Asmuth
CADRE Laboratory for New Media

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