Comments on: More Gibson Reading http://opposedsystemsdesign.blogsome.com/2007/08/24/more-gibson-reading/ Strategy, Systems Thinking and Military Affairs. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 05:13:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Wiggins http://opposedsystemsdesign.blogsome.com/2007/08/24/more-gibson-reading/#comment-330 Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:23:15 +0100 http://opposedsystemsdesign.blogsome.com/2007/08/24/more-gibson-reading/#comment-330 For me, it's the money quote of the book. Comes in a brilliant passage where Bigend expounds on the consequences of an increasingly volatile now. For me, it’s the money quote of the book. Comes in a brilliant passage where Bigend expounds on the consequences of an increasingly volatile now.

]]> by: Curtis Gale Weeks http://opposedsystemsdesign.blogsome.com/2007/08/24/more-gibson-reading/#comment-329 Wed, 29 Aug 2007 05:33:19 +0100 http://opposedsystemsdesign.blogsome.com/2007/08/24/more-gibson-reading/#comment-329 Ah, I like that opening quote. I don't remember it, but it relates to something else I recently posted on D5GW, concerning the <a href="http://www.fifthgeneration.phaticcommunion.com/archives/2007/08/superempowered_individuals_and.php" rel="nofollow">Cheaters, Suckers, and Grudgers</a> of our modern world. Primarily, that today's Grudgers have too much difficulty deciding if others in the world who are affecting them are Cheaters, Suckers, or Grudgers, and thus are always caught in the present. Very weird, the sudden corollary, which I'll have to post at D5GW. Previously, Arherring and I had <a href="http://www.phaticcommunion.com/archives/2006/04/pattern_recogni.php" rel="nofollow">a very interesting discussion</a> of <em>Pattern Recognition</em> in terms of the subject of 5GW. (Later cross-posted to D5GW.) Ah, I like that opening quote. I don’t remember it, but it relates to something else I recently posted on D5GW, concerning the Cheaters, Suckers, and Grudgers of our modern world. Primarily, that today’s Grudgers have too much difficulty deciding if others in the world who are affecting them are Cheaters, Suckers, or Grudgers, and thus are always caught in the present.

Very weird, the sudden corollary, which I’ll have to post at D5GW.

Previously, Arherring and I had a very interesting discussion of Pattern Recognition in terms of the subject of 5GW. (Later cross-posted to D5GW.)

]]> by: Wiggins http://opposedsystemsdesign.blogsome.com/2007/08/24/more-gibson-reading/#comment-327 Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:06:00 +0100 http://opposedsystemsdesign.blogsome.com/2007/08/24/more-gibson-reading/#comment-327 Nifty. Some nice Thomas Kuhn connections to be made there as well, I'd expect. Gibson excels at wrapping very deep dynamics into his novels. Nifty. Some nice Thomas Kuhn connections to be made there as well, I’d expect. Gibson excels at wrapping very deep dynamics into his novels.

]]> by: zenpundit http://opposedsystemsdesign.blogsome.com/2007/08/24/more-gibson-reading/#comment-326 Sun, 26 Aug 2007 01:43:48 +0100 http://opposedsystemsdesign.blogsome.com/2007/08/24/more-gibson-reading/#comment-326 " Authentic subcultures required backwaters, and time, and there are no more backwaters" Whoa...straight out of Howard Gardner's description of " maker" Extraordinairy Minds ( Einstein, Freud..etc.)-developing on the periphery of great civilizational centers - access to, in which to counterpoint/contrast/be inspired to challenge but not enough attention from to be smothered before the new paradigm is finished gestating. ” Authentic subcultures required backwaters, and time, and there are no more backwaters”

Whoa…straight out of Howard Gardner’s description of ” maker” Extraordinairy Minds ( Einstein, Freud..etc.)-developing on the periphery of great civilizational centers - access to, in which to counterpoint/contrast/be inspired to challenge but not enough attention from to be smothered before the new paradigm is finished gestating.

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