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  The paradigm of computing – there’s Input and Compute and Output; and Memory is crucial too – is basic but it has been enough to maintain attention and spur curiosity over a career. Overlaying this is the world and how this computer paradigm succeeds and/or fades in the raucous ecosystem of humankind. This is writ by one who came to maturity as the powerful trains met: Better Living through Electricity encountered Do Not Bend, Fold, Spindle or Mutilate. The rise of automation and computerization raised concerns about dehumanization, yes. It was a concern of think tanks – as well as writers and readers, and film directors and movie audiences -- in the 1950s and 1960s. But there was tentative optimism too. One ironic twist: seers of the day worried about the future of an American Culture that would suddenly have too much leisure time. Anyone that has worked late to create a spreadsheet, toggle through the steps to reboot a printer, or fill out an online form must find some iron...

  THIS IS SYNDICATED CONTENT. FOR THE REAL THING GO TO https://alcompasdelmundo.blogspot.com/ Jack Vaughan steps in "invitado" tonight. He says: The party would revolve as vinyl, where the English bands or the Motown orchestras could set the quantum strings to spinning. If it were my records at my pad, maybe with a MeisterBrau big jug, I would put forward the case for the dance of ecstasy. There would be LPs and 45s strewn. It might include some slow blues. It might end with Sister Ray, which could wake up the danced-out couch  sleepers, and remind them they should go home. This is the kind of event which I look to memorialize here. In these times, it’s the 45s that seem so especially to hold the magic light – and it’s still easy, on a Friday or Saturday night, to let records play us into a shuffling cloud of socks on the shiny floor. The Watusi, the Swim, the Hully Gully. Among the 45s in this collection are the jazz 45s of Eddie Harris and the Crusaders, of the kind to fi...

Beyond his music, Louis Armstrong communicated in montage and audible forms. The Louis Armstorng Museum is filled with his wildly creative scrapbooks, and prodigious recordings of oral history. I recently read that part of the latter included Armstrong musing as he listens to the famous Library of Congress audios of Jelly Roll Morton on the history of jazz. From The Nation article: Armstrong starts off by giving his predecessor a fine spoken intro, but soon hears Morton make an incendiary claim: Louis Armstrong, Morton says, did not invent scat singing. Armstrong stops the tape to correct the record. “I don’t think I’ll let you get away with this!” he begins, insisting that “nobody used the word ‘scat’ in New Orleans” before he came around. “After all,” Armstrong concludes, “I’m still in the business, and you’re still six feet in the ground, young man.” Nuff said!

  Digital publishing has been and will continue to be a difficult to ride wave. Be prepared to act quickly, but deliberately. Ask the people with the new ideas if there is really a "there" there. Ask the Product Developer how certain/uncertain is the return on the investment in the new technology. Could we end up in the same place as where we started, with the exact same problems? How do you test out a choice to ensure it’s not just fodder for an engineer’s resume? Any project can come to naught, how deep is your investment in time, effort, ande money – and how long will it take to regroup/undo? Scaling cannot be built entirely on adding staff, even if - or especially if - they are all brilliant. If you are #3 in the field, find a new field. Important framing question: will Google win in AI? How will that affect ad dollars and strategy?

   a GREAT COLLECTION OF MOON MUSIC - HARVARD ORGY PERIOD, NOV 2023 2:06 AM Ludwig van Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata Ludwig van Beethoven Moonlight Sonata Ludwig van Beethoven Moonlight Sonata - Single Piano and Classics 2023 Classical NLAM42300197 2:11 AM Adam Melchor - Moon in the Morning Adam Melchor Moon in the Morning Adam Melchor Melchor Lullaby Hotline, Vol. 1 R&R Digital/Warner Records 2021 USWB12100749 2:15 AM Alice Phoebe Lou - Lover / / Over the Moon Alice Phoebe Lou Lover / / Over the Moon Alice Phoebe Lou Glow Alice Phoebe Lou 2020 FR10S2142954 2:17 AM Maiya Blaney - Epigraph (feat. Flwr Chyld) [The Moon Wore an Afro!] Maiya Blaney Epigraph (feat. Flwr Chyld) [The Moon Wore an Afro!] Maiya Blaney 3 NTL Recordings 2021 QZDA82143751 2:19 AM The Police - Walking On The Moon The Police Walking On The Moon Reggatta De Blanc (Remastered 2003) Polydor Records 2016 GBAAM0201175       2:25 AM Erykah Badu - Orange Moon Erykah Badu Orange Moon Erykah Badu M...