Scott MacLeod's Anthropology of Information Technology & Counterculture: Papilionaceous flower: orthogonal and counter-intuitive thinker - re MIT Media Lab?, A) teaching "Society, Information Technology, and the Global University," B) major universities planned in all ~200 countries' official main languages for free CC-4 MIT OCW-centric degrees, with C) a n-p https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch?lang=en and f-p https://twitter.com/WUaSPress wings, and D) wiki schools in all 7,099 living languages and E) an interactive realistic virtual earth/universe at cell and atom levels as STEM field site, Have to get this interactive realistic virtual earth going, so that you could take some photos/videos of the leak-in-your-house area, and trace the source back into the earth behind the cement cinder block foundation, and then you could design how a repair would work, so that a little Kubota - all in a Do It Yourself vein. :) ... all in a little realistic virtual earth

Hi M,

Very nice to talk just now.

Maybe if I get the faculty position at MIT, they'll have dental insurance there, which then would make postponing getting a new full dental exam and Xrays sensible, for example.

ORTHOGONAL and COUNTER-INTUITIVE THINKER - re MIT Media Lab?

I think

A) teaching "Society, Information Technology, and the Global University" (http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html),

B) major universities planned in all ~200 countries' official main languages for free CC-4 MIT OCW-centric degrees, with

C) n-p https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch?lang=en and f-p https://twitter.com/WUaSPress wings, and

D) wiki schools in all 7,099 living languages and

E) an interactive realistic virtual earth/universe at cell and atom levels, as STEM field site

are good examples of this.

MIT Media Lab faculty application re:

"Being an orthogonal and counter-intuitive thinker, even a misfit within normal structures": https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/11/cuyahoga-valley-national-park.html

Commelina communis: MIT Media Lab Application is here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/12/commelina-communis-mit-media-lab.html

Your counter-intuitive, and especially non-reductionistic (re an interactive realistic virtual earth), son :)

L, Scott

Hi M,

Have to get this interactive realistic virtual earth going, so that you could take some photos/videos of the leak-in-your-house area, and trace the source back into the earth behind the cement cinder block foundation, and then you could design how a repair would work, so that a little Kubota tractor robot could be brought into your basement and repair this (dig out the basement wall corner, supporting the house, seal it up, and then replace the foundation) - all in a Do It Yourself vein. :) ... all in a little realistic virtual earth.

This kind of realistic virtual earth approach to home repair, if it could include, for example, electrical fixes and architectural additions - and if free in a Google way - could be a big big help for people around the world.

Scottish Country Dancing was fun last night in San Jose ... Heading to Stanford soon ...

What are you up to today? Nice to talk last night.

L, Scott

P.S.

But wait, M, a big root from the gigantic old elm, 15 feet away from the corner of the house that leaks, has to be cut some ... #RealisticVirtualEarth will be able to calculate how much to cut to keep the tree sturdy in storms, and to allow for Kuboti the Tractor-Robot-Foundation-Specialist to seal the foundation too! :)