Let’s TRASH it !
Speaking of trash.
We keep making it.
We box it, we stack it.
We keep spreading it liberally around the world.
We keep taking the planet for granted. !!!
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Check out the Great Pacific Garbage Patch at Wikipedia. Note the visualization of ocean flows using ocean buoys (off to the right).
(Title: Garbage Patch Visualization Experiment.webm Author: NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio Date:
These are the prompts used to gather information about homelessness and to develop a Delphi Method study to research causes and possible interventions (locally). This is part of our Regenerative AI project; recreate as needed, when needed, with the GenAI engines available to you at that time. Select GenAI results as of April 2024 of Delphi Research on Homelessness (from ChatGPT 4.0, Gemini, Claude, and Copilot) are available in this pdf document.
A lot like a perpetual motor: no fool’n. As a kid, college really, I was intrigued about the idea of a “perpetual” motor. A motor that ran forever. My idea seemed like it should work, but I had a hard time getting someone to explain why it wouldn’t. My idea was based on the flywheel of the single engine Briggs & Stratton where a magnet on the flywheel creates the spark for the ignition on…
I fear that PWC was boozing it up a little too much when the rebranded their subsidiary to be now called: “Strategy &“. And what, you ask?Booz & Co is a buyout subsidiary of Price Waterhouse Cooper (PWC), the large accounting/consulting firm. It seems only right that the division with the boozy name should be revamped as something else, Right? But, in a drunken stupor, they couldn’t really come up with what the division will…
What we can learn today from Y2K. Scenario Planning and Contingency Planning are needed now, more than ever.
This is a great editorial by Caroline Little (June 8, 2014) on the value of good journalism and the part that IP law plays in supporting good journalism:TBO: news-opinion-commentary/strong-copyright-law-supports-journalism-and-informs-communitiesWe totally agree. The parallel problem is with pirating, knock off, and just plain duplication. It Is hard to make money on something, when most of the copies sold are illegal sourced or counterfeit.The additional problem, now, is that everyone has a license to write, the solo…
On a sister site, there is a discussion by DelphiMan about the state of scenario planning today, and some new research on ways to squeeze out the genius among laypeople crowds: Scenarios Now and the Genius (hidden) within Crowd,Check it out here on ScenarioPlans.com (or DelphiPlan.com).First, a McKinsey study showed that CEOs really wished that they had done more scenario planning after the great recession. Before, really. But, now with almost 10 years in the…
