Scott MacLeod's Anthropology of Information Technology & Counterculture: Eos (genus): Historical reenactments in video game form with avatar bots from thousands of years ago, Carl Thatcher - "How can we active visionaries in this current time save our society from these goons, the folks out to destroy cultures, peoples, ecosystems, even the earth itself and any semblance of peace upon it?," Haverford, Swarthmore and Earlham alumni haven't yet either!, Catalog for the "Friends World Institute," later FW College, from 1965 arrived in the post, I think the way (for WUaS scholars too) to digitize this great Friends World College catalog, or any text around the world, easily is to smartphone photograph and then save it to an unlimited ... CC-4 licensing (share, adapt, but non-commercially) and CC-0 licensing (which has a "commercial" attribute) and this FWC publication

November 21, 2017

Thanks for the feedback, Carl! Just added these sentences to - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/11/red-kite-planning-for-all-75-billion.html ... Thanks for being on the World Univ & Sch Board again!

A Quaker friend, Carl Thatcher, from Portland, Oregon, texted me recently about sending me a catalog for the "Friends World Institute," later FW College, from 1965, and here are our texts, with some innovations re libraries at World University and School - and with a focus on idea sharing. An Application for Smartphone Photographing and Digitizing such sources to WUaS Libraries in all 7099 living languages, with correct licensing would be great - maybe this already exists in the Wikipedia / MediaWiki / Wikidata universe ...

Friendly cheers, Scott

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Then, yesterday, Tues., Nov 28, 2017, Carl and texted in conversation on smartphones further:

Carl:

No contest. How could a historical reenactment match or shed any pertinent light on the actual events, now some 50 yrs past?

Scott:

I see digital avatar bot historical reenactments, Carl, as potentially shaping different and richly complementary historical interpretations with historians interpretations' of texts, BUT even texts together in new ways in a realistic virtual earth, in all libraries and museums in 8K languages will facilitate new historical interpretations together with other digitally informed approaches to history.

Here are some examples of archaeological historical reenactments in video game form with avatar bots from thousands of years ago http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/04/peacock-spider-archaeology-in-video.html?m=0 which are suggestive of the potential here

Thank you too for the FWC catalog which came yesterday in the post (US mail system), Carl!

Carl:

Good news, Scott. Perhaps some of that FWC founding material can serve as a resource for you and others in your efforts. That's my hope. But my real view now is from a much more pragmatic, immediately political necessity: How can we active visionaries in this current time save our society from these goons, the folks out to destroy cultures, peoples, ecosystems, even the earth itself and any semblance of peace upon it?

Archeological simulations with bots in all 7099 languages won't do it, or get anywhere close.

Scott:

Haverford, Swarthmore and Earlham alumni haven't yet either!

Carl:

I do still cherish the ideas, though, of world-focused education and cultural diversity for all who are open to it.

Scott:

Moi aussi

Carl:

Imperatives of this urgent time must take priority! Fruitful discussions must occur to determine what those measures could be.

Scott

I do think major universities in other countries can develop long term discussions in these regards differently from goon USA today, although the MITs and Stanford's of the USA, like the Quaker do continue to carry on such conversations despite east coast goon citydom.

Carl:

Yep! Indeed!
Was just watching the last chapter of Ken Burns' history of the Vietnam War--almost a paradigm of how US mythology with huge megalomaniacal militarism can screw up the world. But now, several wars later, we're at it again. That's why I think that radical measures with peaceful (AVP? - Alternatives to Violence Project) strategizing are called for. But a global outlook must be a part of that focus. In that re-visioning, world education will be essential.

Scott:

My beats per minute app just popped up, not sure how, said 0.0 ... methinks you might be a bit of a beatnik too :) haven't seen Ken Burn's Vietnam yet, only a 30 minute intro (http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/09/java-pangolins-did-vietnam-win-against.html) .. looking forward to it ...

Wed., Nov 29, 2017

Thank you, Carl. As an aside, I think the way (for WUaS scholars too) to digitize this great Friends World College catalog, or any text around the world, easily is to smartphone photograph and then save it to an unlimited Google account at World Univerdity and School - info@worlduniversityandschool.org - then connect this with emergent library resources -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Library_Resources
- newly emerging "backend" at WUaS, then add it as a link in the Quaker wiki subject -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Quakers_-_Religious_Society_of_Friends
- especially after we move this to the new wiki here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States Thanks for thus beautiful catalog, with people's signatures in it ! .... what a Friendly inspiration !

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Carl:

Thank you for your ideas and plan--all good from my old-guy perspective. I just hope that collectively your grand vision has the propulsion, the energy to persist and thrive in this strange new world.
We desperately need good representation for progressive visions to, as Jesse Jackson put it, "keep hope alive!"

Scott:

Curious further, as an example and experiment, how licensing would work with this catalog - so that WUaS could inform matriculating students in all ~200 countries' official languages.

For example, since this 1965 publication has no Copyright, I'd hazard that if I photographed it, saved it to unlimited size Google account affiliated with - info@worlduniversityandschool.org - that I would choose something like a CC-4 license for it (share, adapt, but non-commercially) rather than a CC-0 license which has a "commercial" attribute, where someone could theoretically use this text or part of it, and then write a publication that they would then sell in a bookstore. Just a thought ... this publication might help to further change the world with Haverford, Swarthmore and Earlham students using it in their Ph.D.s or law degrees at World University and School ... :)

Will photograph and post its cover here soon - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/11/eos-genus-historical-reenactments-in.html - (but not sure how to save to a different gmail account than the one I'm currently saving photos to!)