Atolla jellyfish: Quaker /WUaS schools in the southern hemisphere, and WUaS's presentation proposal to the Friends Association for Higher Education next June 2016 in Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre in England, CC WUaS seeks to become the wiki Leighton Park / Harvard of the Internet, educating particularly f/Friends and especially in the developing world

Carole, Bill and Nontheist Friends,

Thanks for your recent emails to this thread and about Quaker schools in the southern hemisphere. And greetings, All, from the AFSC / San Francisco Friends' Meeting (SFFM) house in San Francisco where World University and School holds weekly open hive meeting spaces. And welcome to new list members!

I'd like to share with you about World University and School's planned online Quaker-informed schools and universities in the southern Hemisphere, in a broad sense, since Friendly-informed WUaS is planning accrediting online universities in all countries, and many of these wiki schools in the southern hemisphere are already begun. You can head to this here at the main Nation States World University and Schools' wiki subject page - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_States - but which are not yet in the main languages of southern hemisphere countries, for the most part. While Creative Commons' licensed WUaS is planning to move from the current "clunky" Wikia wiki to Wikidata's database with something like Wikipedia's front end and in Google Classroom / for Education, WUaS is also planning to accredit first in California on CC MIT OpenCourseWare in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC to offer free online CC degrees (Bachelor, Ph.,D., Law and M.D. degrees as well as I.B. high school) in most countries' main languages. At the same time, WUaS plans to build online wiki schools for open teaching and learning and in all 7,938 languages +. 

I'm posting below my presentation proposal to the Friends Association for Higher Education next June 2016 in Woodbrooke Quaker Center (http://www.woodbrooke.org.uk/pages/quaker-studies-resource-centre.html) in England, for your thoughts, ideas, questions and comments, having given a presentation about WUaS at George Fox University outside Portland, Oregon, in June 2015 and attended my first FAHE (http://quakerfahe.com) gathering at Haverford College in Philadelphia in June 2014.

Did anyone on the NtF email list go to the Quaker Leighton Park school (see below) in south east England, by any chance? 

WUaS would both like to become a significant employer of Quakers and Nontheist Friends in all countries, but especially offer best STEM-centric OpenCourseWare Friendly-informed education to Friendly high schoolers, college and graduate student online around the world. 

Best, 

Scott

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch

http://worlduniversityandschool.org

If you are affiliated with an institution, please indicate it here. 

- San Francisco Friends Meeting Member; Founder, president and head clerk of startup Friendly-informed WUaS, like Wikipedia w/ best STEM-centric OCW, planned for large languages for C.C. Univ. degrees

What is the title of your proposed presentation? 

- Wiki School Gardens and Orchards: Educating Online for Action among Friends in all 7,938+ Languages and in all 200+ Countries’ Languages for degrees

Please list any co-presenter(s) here.

Please provide a brief summary highlighting the content of your proposed session (up to 30 words) 

- World University and School is a Quaker leading, engaging Friendly Business Meeting process. CC WUaS seeks to become the wiki Leighton Park / Harvard of the Internet, educating particularly f/Friends and especially in the developing world.

Please tell us about your proposed topic in more detail (up to 2000 characters) 

- Creative Commons’ licensed World University and School, which plans to accredit on CC MIT OCW in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC for online degrees, and facilitate wiki (editable web page) schools in all 7,938 languages for open teaching and learning (like Wikipedia in 300 languages) is a Friendly leading, and engages Quaker Business Meeting process. WUaS also seeks to explore and study ways in which to make learning very enjoyable, and inter-lingually, building on what students already find most enjoyable when learning, particularly at highest-achieving universities. WUaS also seeks to open education in all languages, by facilitating wiki schools, or platforms where you can teach what you love, in ways you’d like to teach, or learn in similar ways.

CC World University also seeks to create a kind of online Leighton Park school - http://www.leightonpark.com - as an example, which began in 1890, of British Quaker-informed education, and not only at the secondary school level offering online I.B. diplomas, but also at the undergraduate and graduate levels. In so doing, WUaS will help prepare students to make a difference in creating a just and peaceful world. It’s in the context of such Quaker schools that, in my experience, students transform their worldview and can become scholars and contemplative activists. Quaker Meeting can be central to this process. Such Quaker independent education, informing a school’s faith perspective, can be brought to bear in working with students of different faiths or none. Moving beyond books and classrooms, as kinds of technologies in themselves, Internet and computer technologies, as well as technologies such as musical instruments (at Leighton Park, for example), and also STEM-centric education such as MIT OCW in multiple languages, can help educate students for critical thinking, spiritual wisdom and action, now online too. The Quaker tradition of transforming education and industry has long been accomplished by leading by example.

http://worlduniversityandschool.org


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See, too:

FAHE Request for Proposals 2016

http://www.cvent.com/events/fahe-request-for-proposals-2016/event-summary-532f6ba3563b4705aaf132b3f5baf9bf.aspx

Queries for Consideration:

• How do you help prepare students to make a difference in creating a just and peaceful world?
• What in your experience has worked best in helping students transform their worldview and become scholars and contemplative activists?
• Does Quaker transformational education have a distinctive pedagogy?
• How do we bring a Quaker faith perspective to bear in working with students of different faiths or none?
• What technologies are helpful and unhelpful in helping us educate for critical thinking, spirituals wisdom and action?
• What can we learn from the Quaker tradition of transforming education and industry?

http://quakerfahe.com/2015/09/04/call-for-papers-2016-fahe-conference/

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Wallace's Standardwing: Just read that William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia is the oldest Quaker School in the world (1689) and older than Friends School Saffron Walden (1702) in England ... and vis-a-vis MIT OCW-centric, Quaker-Informed (nontheistically f/Friendly) WUaSl's International Baccalaureate programme, Quaker schools around the world, At least three Quaker I.B. high schools around the world, Friendly culture, - peace oriented - now centuries' old, will be significant for WUaS, Would like, too, to welcome f/Friendly culture, and the "Religious Society of Friends" into the information technology and internet ages, and centuries' ahead

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/11/wallaces-standardwing-just-read-that.html

Tatra mountains: Network and accredit with these Quaker schools around the world, and especially vis-a-vis the countries they are in?, Haven't been able yet to find Quaker schools where the language of learning is Russian, Mandarin (Chinese), or French, in the main United Nations' languages, (Friends House Moscow - http://friendshousemoscow.org/?page_id=55 ... Hong Kong Meeting - http://www.friends-hk.org/ ... France Yearly Meeting - http://fwccemes.org/fam/?mg=6), Quaker schools really care for students as individuals (vis-a-vis the 'light within' young people), creating an ethos around this, which is centuries old, and many students love Quaker schools, long after they've graduated, Mid-India Yearly Meeting

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/11/tatra-mountains-network-and-accredit.html

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atolla_jellyfish

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Aequorea victoria: Play in learning? Play in work? What would it mean if WUaS - http://worlduniversityandschool.org - became the Harvard of the internet in all countries' main languages where play is central?, What happens when the internet ramps up, amps up, and moves faster with voice, and machine learning, compared with mouse-clicking? Oh oh ... :), And what happens to the main SUBJECT TEMPLATE, and all of the current "clunky" 720 Wikia WUaS wiki subject pages, * {Music School at WUaS planned for ALL instruments in ALL languages :} * What does play in learning for highest achievers {on the degree side}, and for everyone {on the wiki side} mean?

Play in learning?

Play in work?

What would it mean if World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org - became the Harvard of the internet in all countries' main languages where play is central?


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What happens when the internet ramps up, amps up, and moves faster with voice, and machine learning, compared with mouse-clicking? Oh oh ... :) And what happens to the main SUBJECT TEMPLATE - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/SUBJECT_TEMPLATE - and all of the current clunky 720 Wikia WUaS wiki subject pages that are planned in all 7,938 languages, in terms of planning to develop in Wikidata and with Google, for example?


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{Music School at WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School - planned for ALL instruments in ALL languages :}

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What does play in learning for highest achievers {on the degree side}, and for everyone {on the wiki side} mean?

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aequorea_victoria

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Box jellyfish: Actual~Virtual "Naked Harbin" book, Finalizing for Publication on Valentine's Day, "... send the first batch of what you want me to read", Esalen not too long ago which Ishvara Harbin's Founder looks toward, "Coming of Age in Second Life" by Tom Boellstorff's "Reviews | Table of Contents | Chapter 1[PDF]" for free from Princeton UP - http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10611.html, Fascinating brief Harbin history in the Califia's Children blog called "Harbin Hot Springs and the Heart Consciousness Church," Hoping to create two Harbin ethnographic books as well as a new Academic Press at World University and School with its first book publication of "Naked Harbin"

Hi, John,

Thanks so much for your email yesterday saying "send the first batch of what you want me to read". I enjoyed also a recent book on Esalen not too long ago, which Ishvara, Harbin's Founder, I think, looks toward. I'm attaching to this email the introduction and first chapter of my Harbin manuscript.

And here are Tom Boellstorff's "Reviews | Table of Contents | Chapter 1[PDF]" for free from Princeton UP - http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10611.html - with which book I come into conversation, or rif with, throughout, as a kind of model.

I just began to add a center section of photos last night after chapter 4 ("Place and Time") and before chapter 5 ("Personhood" at Harbin), so I'm planning to sprinkle photos throughout, like in Tom's first chapter, and also publish a robust centerfold section to document Harbin fully before its fire, and from during my years-long time of field work, but haven't developed an organizing focus for photos yet in the middle of the book.

I'd love to incorporate "play, purpose and potential ... " re key ideas here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMPSaZ4hxKk - into reading toward "finalizing" and publishing my Harbin manuscript on February 14th, Valentine's Day. :)

Thank you.

Happy Thanksgiving, Feast Day, Harvest Festival plus to you! :)

Best regards,

Scott

Hi John, (Charles, and David),

In sending you my Harbin ethnographic 1st chapter manuscript, plus index, just now, it looks like I'm playing lead ... guitar ... but rather possibly Scottish small pipes, and you John may be on rhythm guitar, and you on keyboard?, Charles, and you David on bass, upright possibly, in our little rock and roll band - all metaphorically of course ... until we play musical instruments. :)

I'd be interested too in engaging the tennis metaphor of keeping the ball going back and forth (doubles, of course) ... for flow experiences ... in this Harbin publishing process ... rather than putting the ball away each point to make a win, and losing the ball in the bushes thus ending the game, and the "flow" experiences.

I'm including below University of Toronto Press' Anne Brackenbury's email and my response re potentially excerpting this now 443 page Harbin manuscript for a 2nd Harbin book for UoT's "Teaching Culture" series ... could be fun ...

{New "Academic Press at World University and School" questions to follow, Charles, and wanting to publish, in a parallel way, with Google Books, if possible, anticipating machine learning translation probably in Google at some point in the future).

Again, Happy Thanksgiving, Feast Day, Harvest Festival plus to you! :)

Friendly and Best regards,

Scott



Hi Scott,

Thanks very much for this query and for your patience in waiting for my reply.

This is a hugely interesting project but I have to admit that I find the “hugeness” may be a bit of stumbling block in determining how to proceed with this. I’m still not totally clear on whether the “book” you want to write is an ethnography of the actual Harbin or of the virtual Harbin, a comparison of the two, or all of the above! My sense is that you’re trying to do too much with one book and so I would encourage you to break this down into more discrete projects. I think there may be a book about the ethnography of actual Harbin, a virtual recreation of this community and its ongoing second life, and perhaps a journal article that compares the two and makes a contribution to methodological and theoretical issues about digital technology.

I edit a series designed for undergraduate teaching called Teaching Culture. These are scholarly informed works but they tend to be written with undergraduates in mind – so narratively driven, with rich characters and thick description, and with the theory receding more into the background. I could imagine a Harbin ethnography that was brief (55,000 words maximum) and which touched on linking this community to broader questions in anthropology, and maybe ended with a chapter that explained the digital second life of this community. That, paired with access to the virtual Harbin you build could be a really great pedagogical (and public) contribution when used together in a classroom. That’s a far cry though from a 153,000 word book with up to 100 images (that would result in a book close to 500 pages! though.

So I would encourage you to revisit this project and think distinctly about different audiences – the scholarly audience (which might be serviced by a journal article), the course market (a pedagogical book), the broader public (maybe that’s a coffee table book?), and the virtual version – and think about how these various pieces might all tell different parts of the story; a transmedia approach, if you will. I would potentially be interested in the pedagogical book and if you were able to work with getting funding from another organization, there is also the potential for a collaboration to ensure the virtual Harbin and the printed book worked together well. But all this requires you to refine your vision a little, and then do some footwork with other organizations (Mellon?) to think about a collaboration.

Hope this helps!

Best,

Anne

From: Scott MacLeod [mailto:sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org]
Sent: October-18-15 10:59 PM
To: Brackenbury, Anne; Hildebrand, Doug
Subject: Actual / virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic book proposal

Dear Dear Anne Brackenbury and Douglas Hildebrand,

Dear Anne, 

Thanks very much for your email and great ideas. I'm potentially interested in writing a pedagogical Harbin ethnographic book. It would be great to reach a student market which buys books (and both scholarly journal article and coffee table book markets), and as the University of Toronto Press's executive editor, and as head of its "Teaching Culture" series, your suggestion of a 55,000 word ethnography, and other related further publications focusing on "Teaching Culture" anthropologically vis-a-vis my Harbin ethnographic project (as counterculture) is something I'd love to follow up on, do and write. (And I'd also like for the eventual Academic Press at World University and School to publish the whole 500 page ethnography as WUaS prepares with machine learning for translation). Perhaps I can turn the Harbin talk I'm giving the UC Berkeley Anthropology department (in the Tourism Studies' Working Group in http://tourismstudies.org/Colloquia_2015-2016.htm) on related issues into a journal article. 

The book first and foremost I wanted to write about both actual and virtual Harbin came into conversation with Tom Boellstorff's ethnographic book "Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human," and I wrote it. My Harbin ethnographic manuscript is thus of a whole as it is, albeit long. (But I think there would be a significant academic library+ market for this worldwide, and price-wise, as well). I also think the anthropological knowledge-generative/documenting/theoretical/academic value of a 153,000+ word/500 page ethnographic Harbin book is also significant. But writing this didn't include building a virtual Harbin in SL/ OpenSim or in other virtual worlds/earths. Virtual worlds have progressed since I began this book, and a developing film-realistic 3D interactive build-able wiki-informed virtual Harbin/earth has much merit not only for ethnographic research in many languages, but also for other STEM research, and even as a kind of wiki, where all researchers in many languages could both add their data (e.g. photos, videos, representations of artifacts, and do computer simulated modeling and much more) but also for sociocultural linguistic interaction, and emergent discourses and related interviewing, participant observation, as well as especially making of field sites. 

It could be very interesting therefore to explore excerpting parts of this and write a Harbin-centric, teaching culture, undergraduate ethnographic book for the series you edit, Anne, "which is narratively driven, with rich characters and thick description, and with the theory receding more into the background." I'd enjoy developing a Harbin ethnography that was brief (55,000 words maximum) and which "touches on linking this community to broader questions in anthropology, and ends with a chapter that explains the digital virtual Harbin of this community." I'd also enjoying pairing this with access to the virtual Harbin I build, but again in a virtual earth with a developing film-realistic 3D interactive build-able wiki-informed virtual Harbin/earth and even as a classroom itself both for teaching ethnography (but also for World University and School, for example). (I would hope again to develop my whole 153,000 word actual / virtual "Naked Harbin" manuscript for an emergent Academic Press at World University and School some years ahead, with its planned focus on translation into other languages with developing machine learning/AI and a planned WUaS universal translator). 

The transmedia approach you suggest has much merit, Anne. Google would be my virtual earth / virtual Harbin of choice as infrastructure (with Google in an Android Smartphone, and used even in Goggles, with Google Translate, with G+ Hangouts +), while the Mellon foundation could also be a very important collaboration partner for funding (given their creative funding history such as with CC MIT OpenCourseWare which World University and School plans to accredit upon). Would it be possible to get your, the University of Toronto Press, or UT faculty members who know the Mellon Foundation (or have already received grants from them), letter writing and network support when applying for possible grants/funding from Mellon please? 

How does this sound to you? Thank you. 

Best regards,

Scott

John, (Charles and David), 

In terms of reading for "finalization," THEORETICALLY after getting the unfinished bits from me - e.g. list of illustrations, etc., you, John, could email the 9 chapters and index you've read to Charles, or similar, on February 7th, 2016, and he could put, and ready, the manuscript in Google Books for pressing the publication button, or similar, on Valentine's day, as publisher, but I'm planning to do this ...

One goal of the book is to co-create a kind of centering down in Friends' Meeting from home and in one's bath tub even (for the relaxation response / inner releasing action meditation) in a virtual Harbin, so that the Reader as well as you and I could get the Harbin experience (like the Jimi Hendrix experience?)  ... from home, socially, "realistically and virtually in a virtual world with film-realism, interactivity, 3D, and which is build-able, eventually" (http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/09/crab-tourism-studies-and-virtual.html and http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/10/naked-harbin-ethno-wiki-virtual-world.html) and also for students at great universities to be able to read this book with "Coming of Age in SL" and help further co-create and do field work in this virtual Harbin from their bath tub.

Best regards,
Scott

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There's a fascinating brief Harbin history in the Califia's Children blog called "Harbin Hot Springs and the Heart Consciousness Church," which link you'll find here - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/09/harbin-hot-springs-and-heart.html - and I hope my !500 page Actual~Virtual "Naked Harbin" ethnographic book will be out by Valentine's Day 2016 ~ http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html.

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Hoping to create two Harbin ethnographic books as well as a new Academic Press at World University and School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Academic_Press_at_World_University_and_School - out of this process, where WUaS's Press with its first book would publish "Naked Harbin", and the University of Toronto's Press, in its "Teaching Culture" series, would publish the other.


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See, too:

Chrysanthemum: 4 special gifts including a companion meditation album for all pre-orders of my Actual~Virtual "Naked Harbin" Book. PRE-ORDER AT http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html, Charles, could you be the Arjuna to John's Krishna, and I the Golden Chariot (I don't know my Bhagavad Gita that well:) ... but all in relation to bringing my Harbin book to publication?

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/11/chrysanthemum-4-special-gifts-including.html

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Bioluminescent jelly fish: Here's Iran World University and School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Iran_(Islamic_Republic_of) - and Persian language WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Persian_language - not yet in Farsi, and neither yet newly in Wikidata nor in a new wiki "front end." Check out the MIT OpenCourseWare, and MIT OCW is in Farsi - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/persian/ - as you know, Iran WUaS Law School, Opera WUaS, Iranian opera?, We seek to be especially STEM-centric in most countries' main languages +, Happy Thanksgiving, Feast Day, Harvest Festival plus to you! :)

Hi Yasaman and Shahrzad (and Fatemeh and Amir) and Ants!, 

Thanks for your email, Shahrzad. 

Here's Iran World University and School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Iran_(Islamic_Republic_of) - and Persian language WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Persian_language - not yet in Farsi, and neither yet newly in Wikidata nor in a new wiki "front end." Check out the MIT OpenCourseWare, and MIT OCW is in Farsi - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/persian/ - as you know.  

This is a create-project, and a creative project, with many details to unfold when we start developing in CC Wikidata. CC WUaS would like to create a major accrediting university in Farsi, with degrees, (and as the Harvard of the internet in each countries' main language). 

Yasaman, you might, for example, find creating the online Iran WUaS Law School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Law_School - planned in Farsi interesting, and you could eventually teach in it online as a graduate student instructor in a Google group video Hangout, if interested. 

And still in its beginnings too, here, for example, is the Opera World University and School wiki subject page for open teaching and learning - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Opera - which may grow into hundreds of pages with time, and in many languages. Iranian opera? 

Being MIT OCW-centric (which is in 7 languages currently), we seek to be especially STEM-centric -http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/STEM_Education_-_Science,_Technologies,_Engineering_and_Mathematics (check out all the WUaS STEM wiki subjects here) - and for free CC degrees, as well, and especially for online STEM research -http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Research - in most countries' main languages +.  

Check out, too, for an overview, each of the ~ 10 main WUaS areas here - http://worlduniversityandschool.org. 

Happy Thanksgiving, Feast Day, Harvest Festival plus to you all! :)

Scott

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch

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Manoranjini flowers: Here's Italy World University and School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Italy - and Italian language WUaS, not yet in Italian, and neither yet newly in Wikidata nor in a new wiki front end, Check out the MIT OpenCourseWare, WUaS is a create-project, and a creative project, "Opera" WUaS, We seek to be especially STEM-centric in most countries' main languages +, Happy Thanksgiving, Feast Day, Harvest Festival plus to you! :)

Here's Italy World University and School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Italy - and Italian language WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Italian_language - not yet in Italian, and neither yet newly in Wikidata nor in a new wiki "front end." Check out the MIT OpenCourseWare. 

This is a create-project, and a creative project, with many details to unfold when we start developing in CC Wikidata. CC WUaS would like to create a major accrediting university in Italian, with degrees, (and as the Harvard of the internet in each countries' main language). 

And still in its beginnings too, here, for example, is the "Opera" World University and School wiki subject page for open teaching and learning - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Opera - which may grow into hundreds of pages with time, and in many languages. 

Hoc and all, being MIT OCW-centric (which is in 7 languages currently), we seek to be especially STEM-centric - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/STEM_Education_-_Science,_Technologies,_Engineering_and_Mathematics (check out all the STEM subjects here) - and for free CC degrees, as well, and especially for online STEM research - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Research - in most countries' main languages +.  

Check out, too, for an overview, each of the ~ 10 main WUaS areas here - http://worlduniversityandschool.org. 

Scott
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch


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Happy Thanksgiving, Feast Day, Harvest Festival plus to you! :)

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Pinwheel flowers: "What is this, a G+ for ants?", 2 steps forward, 1 step back? (an old human thing?), 3 steps forward, 2 steps back?, 4 steps forward, 3 steps back? Could we program or wiki add into G+x, 5 steps forward, and 4 steps back and then also add machine learning the way we want it? ... and develop G+ for 3D virtual worlds, as dancing avatars (5 years out)? :), "Marin Marušić Yesterday 2:55 PM +Linus Torvalds don't you understand ... you're an engineer, you, of all people, should understand ... "Profiles in the new Google+ have been streamlined and simplified"", Do you really mean that avatars might be dancing out of the screen and all over us, the world, holograpically even, speaking all 7,938+ languages from G+, Princess Leia projection, Could these avatars as kinds of "light robots" step out of the screen eventually? In Google searching on "mit floating digital light objects" and "mit floating digital holographic projections," I found the following, Code SQL with VOICE in multiple languages in Wikidata

https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/2Ndtw3ZBRX2

Venu Gopal

Commented "Right on dot Sir. The world i..." on: "What is this, a G+ for ants?" The "new G+" seems to have dropped the support for more than two columns. So it's back to the bad old days of 50% gray horizontal space. Because clearly there is no...

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"What is this, a G+ for ants?"

The "new G+" seems to have dropped the support for more than two columns. So it's back to the bad old days of 50% gray horizontal space. Because clearly there is no better use for it.

Maybe google doesn't buy their engineers any good monitors, and so they haven't learnt about that whole 4k screen thing? But the old G+ at least gave me three columns.\

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Scott MacLeod (WUaS)

Yesterday 8:50 AM

2 steps forward, 1 step back? (an old human thing?), 3 steps forward, 2 steps back?, 4 steps forward, 3 steps back? Could we program or wiki add into G+x, 5 steps forward, and 4 steps back and then also add machine learning the way we want it? ... and develop G+ for 3D virtual worlds, as dancing avatars (5 years out)? :)

Scott MacLeod (Musical-Aphilo)

Yesterday 12:41 PM

And how soon? :)

Marin Marušić

Yesterday 2:55 PM

+Linus Torvalds don't you understand ... you're an engineer, you, of all people, should understand ... "Profiles in the new Google+ have been streamlined and simplified" ... I mean, streamlined and simplified... Who doesn't like streamlined and simplified ... Might as well say it's for morons, you'll like it.

Bah... might as well get started on the new stylesheet for G+ ... again.

I think, they think since they are in userspace, they are allowed to break things :P Hey Google, that's not true in UX either.

I just remembered the rant about Roboto from about 2-3 years ago :) Same shit again, and#whitespace too ... 

Scott MacLeod (Helianth)

Yesterday 3:10 PM

Do you really mean that avatars might be dancing out of the screen and all over us, the world, holograpically even, speaking all 7,938+ languages from G+, Marim? What a mind boggling circle dance that will be! :)

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The idea here could be a kind of Princess Leia projection, for example, as real virtual avatar ...

Leia Organa's holographic message for Obi-Wan Kenobi (from Star Wars).

See, too:

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Could these avatars as kinds of "light robots" step out of the screen eventually? 

http://worlduniversityandschool.org

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In Google searching on "mit floating digital light objects" and "mit floating digital holographic projections," I found the following:

http://b.fastcompany.net/multisite_files/codesign/imagecache/inline-large/post-inline/zeron2.jpg
http://www.fastcodesign.com/1669799/mit-creates-amazing-ui-from-levitating-orbs

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http://c.fastcompany.net/multisite_files/codesign/imagecache/1280/article_feature/1280-zeron3.jpg
http://www.fastcodesign.com/1669799/mit-creates-amazing-ui-from-levitating-orbs

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http://www.technologyreview.com/sites/default/files/images/wild.resavex519.jpg
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/540841/when-virtual-reality-collides-with-reality-its-surreal/

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http://img.gizmag.com/ultrasound-3d-haptic.jpg?ch=Width&fit=crop&h=394&q=60&w=700&s=b0718d443e82baf9840dae37652a10f9

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http://www.gizmag.com/ultrasound-3d-haptic-hologram/35032/

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http://pop.h-cdn.co/assets/cm/15/05/54cb27650b25a_-_mit-projection-mdn.jpg

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/a9951/mit-is-building-tony-starks-transparent-projection-screen-16405718/

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http://news.mit.edu/2013/cheap-color-holographic-video-0619

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holography

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MIT Hands out of a Screen ...

MIT Invents A Shapeshifting Display You Can Reach Through And Touch

THE TANGIBLE MEDIA GROUP AT MIT'S MEDIA LAB HAS UNVEILED A FUTURISTIC DISPLAY MADE OF ATOMS, NOT PIXELS.

http://www.fastcodesign.com/3021522/innovation-by-design/mit-invents-a-shapeshifting-display-you-can-reach-through-and-touch


See, too:

MIT invents shapeshifting robotic screen that mimics your hands from the other side of the world

http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/125123-mit-invents-shapeshifting-robotic-screen-that-mimics-your-hands-from-the-other-side-of-the-world


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Avatar agency as defined by the Turing Test?

A totally fascinating possibility and scary too.


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I'm excited for the time too when we may be able to code SQL (structured query language), for example, with VOICE and in multiple languages in Wikidata and beyond Google Voice and Siri ... which we will be even easier with brain wave headsets in the future, anticipating adding avatars of our imagining, without language or gestures.

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Hibiscus: Abdominable Pasgetti! Absatootly, 3 New WUaS Planned Revenue Streams: 1) HospitalTechnologies for WUaS's online teaching hospitals in all countries' main languages, 2) MindSports, where WUaS students may compete in these, 3) AllServices in all countries and languages (e.g. financial, banking, currency exchange, pension services, utilities, transportation, energy, regulatory services, smart cities and homes, passports ... )

Here are WUaS's three new planned revenue streams, all planned on the commercial side (http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2015/11/wuas-planned-revenue-streams-with-3-new.html) in all nation states' - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_States - main and official languages: 

10 - HospitalTechnologies (or TeachingHospitalTechnologies), both information technological, and eventually on-the-ground, planned for all 200+ nation states and in their main languages, as part of WUaS's teaching hospitals for online medical degrees. 

11 - MindSports (e.g. Chess, Poker, Bridge and the Game of Go and infinitely more), planned in all 200+ nation states and in their main languages, and as spectator sports, and anticipating machine learning; WUaS students may compete in these. 

12 - AllServices in all countries and languages (e.g. financial, banking, currency exchange, pension services, utilities, transportation, energy, regulatory services, smart cities and homes, passport, insurance, post office, etc., and possibly translation), mediated through WUaS's Nation States' Universities (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_States) ... 

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And here are WUaS's already planned revenue streams ... 

WUaS's Business Plan as a 501 (c) (3) tax exempt organization includes:

Creative Commons' licensed side:

1 - fundraising from individuals, foundations, companies and governments plus, both in the U.S. and internationally for CC online best STEM-centric OpenCourseWare University (Bachelor, Ph.D. Law, M.D., and I.B.), and high school, degrees

2 - collaboration financially with governments in all 257+ countries in main languages in them, for free (since CC) and best STEM-centric OpenCourseWare University (Bachelor, Ph.D. Law, M.D., and I.B.), and high school, degrees

3 - fundraising from institutions such as the National Park Service or NASA, for a CC licensed virtual earth with film realism, in 3D, interactive, build-able, for STEM research and modeling, and in all languages (like Google Earth/Street View with OpenSim/SL)

4 - fundraising from institutions such as universities around the world for a CC Universal Translator


Commercial side:

5 - an online bookstore / computer store for text- and course books, and learning resources, planned for all 7,941+ languages

6 - an Academic Press as well as academic journals planned for many of all 7,941+ languages 

7 - lesson instruction beyond the wiki pages at the C.C. Music School at WUaS and the music instruction for the undergraduate and graduate WUaS music degrees - and in all languages for music, as well as tutoring for best STEM-centric OpenCourseWare online degrees

8 - universal broadband internet connectivity, - in collaboration with governments in all 257+ countries (and perhaps with Cisco or Google Fiber Optic as well), to facilitate universal education, and especially in the developing countries

9 - planning to become an all-language academic online manpower-brain power-language-power jobs' source for our graduates and others

(See, too, the WUaS business plan from September 17, 2015: http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2015/09/wuass-business-model-update-creative.html). 

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Abdominable Pasgetti! Absatootly

We have a binary situation here,  We have a binary situation here, makingvlike a banana here and split :)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibiscus
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