Showing posts with label communication. Show all posts
Showing posts with label communication. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

society economy organization energy costs

energy is related to our understanding of cosmos (as in order of everything)
we labelled it with the notion of cost which is derived from that understanding
nowadays nanotech opens the road for constant absorption of energy (heat , electricity)
we can pick and transfer small amounts at every moments
we also built more efficient devices that would require amounts in this range

human work ~ energy, also depends on our understandings of things.
crowdsource is kinda this nanotech idea
we can leverage human activities as energy
we just have to provide a sufficiently conductive medium/infrastructure for their little amount of work to be gathered, transfered, aggregated, cross-corelated.
now things would appear almost free, and people would enjoy life while contributing at the same time
we have a lot of wasted time, and lots of desire to build and make changes but the 'job' barrier is too high and unjustifiedly so.

Saturday, February 18, 2012

Patchwork English

I tend to think and speak in English quite easily since a few years. Around early 2Ks I spent an awful amount of time watching instructional material like musical instrument master classes, software tutorials, my first non-dubbed movies too. Few years back I went virtually abroad using Omegle, I was constantly in sync with America's Time Zone; this was the new epic TV show era (lost, prison break, whatever), I even watched Jay Leno twice. Live chat with north american was alright, some thought I wasn't European, some just said my English was really great. But.. writing is a whole different game. I'm amazed by my lack of grammar knowledge, my failed metaphors, abuse of almost common Latin-rooted nouns,  abuse of these boringly-long-adjective-driven-verb-free sentences, lucky-guess spelling and an overall limited vocabulary that ends up really repetitive.
As an excuse I can almost say the same for my native languages .. I never learned properly, my brain is good at grabbing pompous idioms that impress people. I come across a lot of great writers/bloggers I hope I'd incorporate some of their skills. In the meantime I visit etymonline.com 5 times a day on average which helps too.

Ciao