To a global, virtual, free, open, {future degree- & credit-granting}, multilingual University & School for the developing world and everyone, as well as loving bliss ~ scottmacleod.com
Author Proposal Form - Harvard book store - carrying a title of a book: Exploring if the Harvard book store would carry my 1st book "Naked Harbin Ethnography," and 4 books of poetry, and how
Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org>
7:51 AM (14 hours ago)
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Ma, All,
Exploring if the Harvard book store would carry my 1st book "Naked Harbin Ethnography," and 4 books of poetry, and how -
Fascinating instructive history - and re his MOTHER who ran 2 early Harvard bookstores
"Frank was helped and tutored by the store’s five dedicated employees, and he did his best to run the Harvard Square store while his mother ran the two satellite stores."
Let me know what you think. Let's explore opening this flagship MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch bookstore on Walnut Street together ... (Further World University & School academic bookstores on University avenue in Palo Alto and Berkeley OR NOT for some years? ... in addition to MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch bookstores in Chennai India in Tamil Nadu in the Tamil language, and in Mexico City in Spanish, - in addition to in the fairly recently closed Walmart in the Waterworks Mall in Pgh near Fox Chapel?)
Ma, would you like to meet for lunch at Moulin tomorrow Wednesday near the upcoming WUaS bookstore?
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Ma, All,
Greetings everyone! As a follow up:
Adding the book "Naked Harbin Ethnography" to the Harvard bookstore (see entry info below) went smoothly, (but am not sure what this means) - and the World Univ & Sch WUaS bookstore got a new free database airtable out of this, and as a consequence - https://www.airtable.com/about - which WUaS may be able to use to begin our bookstore AI data sources, and especially since Harvard bookstore may use this too. This fascinating and instructive history of the Harvard Bookstore - https://www.harvardsquare.com/history/historical-sites/harvard-book-store/ - mentioning 2 satellite bookstores that the founder's mother ran ... could certainly be a plan for the flagship WUaS bookstores in Pittsburgh too ... and as they begin to stream their possible invent-the-bookstore-anew with Google Street View with time slider GMaps GEarth with film to 3d Apps and AI Multimedia Augmented Reality hologram physical-digital #RealisticVirtualEarthForLegoRobotics in-stores information technologies around the world.
Ma, shall we explore visiting the Chase bank after eating lunch at Moulin restaurant in Shadyside ? Perhaps we could even meet Shady Side Academy and Harvard alumnus, and jP Morgan Chase Pgh Managing Director Michael Foster after lunch - if he might be there, sinchew I think he has an office there.
In some of this moving beyond the Harvard bookstore innovation thinking -
Just shared this this morning with a co-author of the Harvard Bookstore instructive history, now the executive director of a Historical Society in Taunton, MA, - not that far from Cuttyhunk -
Hi Katie (MacDonald),
Greetings from Penn's Woods, western side. I hope this finds you well. Am writing with some questions about your Harvard Bookstore history.
I found this fascinating and instructive history of the Harvard Bookstore which you had co-authored -
and which is very relevant for an upcoming flagship MIT OCW- centric Wiki World University and School bookstore I'm starting in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, Penn's Woods.
Am very interested in developing with this a physical-digital realistic virtual earth for bookstores, (with a realistic virtual earth for history with a realistic virtual earth for archaeology /ADDING ALL archaeological objects in virtual situ) and think Google Street View with time slider GMaps GEarth with film to 3d Apps and AI Multimedia Augmented Reality rooms.
The Harvard Bookstore is innovating in interesting ways in the web for making books available and the MIT OCW-centric Wiki World University and School bookstore would like to go further, much further.
In your historical society and book experience in the Boston area, what innovations are you looking for? What innovations are you seeing?
(Are you involved in Scottish circles in the Boston area in any way? And have you ever been to Cuttyhunk island in SE Massachusetts? I've grown up there in the summers since I was little).
Naked Harbin Ethnography has about 180 FULL COLOR photos, is 327 pages long on 8 1/2 x 11 inch paper, paper cover, and title and author are printed on the spine
Scott MacLeod, Scott Gordon Kenneth MacLeod
Academic Press at World University and School, 2016 - Social Science - 327 pages
An anthropology of Harbin Hot Springs, virtual Harbin, the 1960s forward, counterculture, virtual worlds and information technology The book's target audiences are undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, information technology social scientists, Internet studies' researchers, academics interested in the "virtual," and people with a fondness for the 1960s. My book comes into conversation with Tom Boellstorff's "Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human" (Princeton 2008), and could be read in academic courses in direct conversation with "Coming of Age in SL." For my next Harbin book, I plan to build a virtual Harbin, ideally in a movie-realistic interactive 3D virtual earth, Google-made, and do actual virtual comparative fieldwork, what I'm calling ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - http: //scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - as an innovative methodology in Anthropology. I'd like for readers to be able to visit virtual Harbin and have a Harbin experience, in their bathtubs, for example, for the meditative releasing action of the warm waters, - and write ethnographically about this. Naked Harbin is an actual-virtual ethnographic comparison based on extensive field work at actual Harbin Hot Springs, but comes into direct conversation with Boellstorff's "Coming of Age in Second Life," which is based on extensive field work in the 3D interactive virtual world of Second Life. My "Naked Harbin" also examines the significance of making a virtual field site for actual-virtual comparison. After you check in at the gate at Harbin, one resident who has worked there for years often says, "Go play." This ethnography of Harbin Hot Springs in northern California explicitly and theoretically brings together approaches to the comparative study of both the actual and virtual, by developing new methodologies in studying Harbin - as a kind of hippy or Alternative haven from modernity. Through this anthropological book and conceiving of virtual Harbin, you can begin not only to "be there" - to visit Harbin virtually in the text, as it were - but also to revisit the 1960s and its related freedom-seeking movements. Moreover, Harbin Hot Springs' clothing-optionality, spirituality and alternative culture are attractive in mysterious ways. In the way that Margaret Mead's work was theoretical and gained widespread attention at the same time, this book will appeal due to the broad interest in emerging interactive virtual worlds, as well as 1960's informed alternative Harbin's exotic, yet familiar, attractiveness, now mediated digitally. As information technologies and wondrous developments like virtual worlds continue to develop rapidly, I hope to engage you, the reader, further in the conversation about the creativity in countercultural thinking, in virtual worlds, in comparative ethnography, and in the experiences of interacting in this virtual Harbin, even as visitors to actual Harbin enjoy visiting this hot springs' retreat center. - Scott MacLeod http: //www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html Academic Press at World University and School http: //worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html
inside all the WUaS bookstores in all 200 countries as part of 1 realistic virtual earth, and re a realistic virtual earth for history, for soaking, and for STEM and brain research - and think Google Street View with time slider, GMaps (much used), GEarth, TensorFlowAI and little Pegman becoming Avatar Agent Electronic Health Records, digital twins too ... and at the GCellView GMoleculeView ... and similar ...
with this in mind too -
ONSEN - this is the relatively new Youtube interactive immersive #InfoTech
and potentially in the new Apple Vision Pro digital mask ... for getting inside cells, and even molecules, too in a RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics / Genomics? :)
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Dear Ma, Peter (Norvig, Google AI), All,
Greetings! How are you all doing? I hope this email finds you well !
How best to grow the potential flagship World Univ & Sch WUaS Bookstore with WUaS Business plan - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WtXNAEzFp4DdVqKq3pxOPQOQE7ZCS8zqSQhxJmTz3-k/edit?usp=sharing - and even by meeting Michael Foster, JP Morgan Chase Pgh Managing Director (a Harvard and SSA alumnus)? My mother can't make lunch today ... but my mother could 'clerk' or run the satellite WUAS Educational Services' stores Bookstores Computer Stores Robotics' stores in Pgh, both mid size (in the closed Williams Sonoma building) and large size (closed WM) ... there's a lot of retail knowledge by many many people in Pittsburgh ... newly connectable with information technologies ... potentially to reinvent the bookstore -
10:10pm 2/20/24 -
Janie (MacLeod):
"Sorry, I can’t meet for lunch tomorrow - but it’s a good idea. Let’s do it sometime. Love, Ma"
Scott:
Hi Ma,
Thanks for your email.
Am wondering how best to explore growing the WUaS Bookstore, and potentially connecting with JP Morgan Chase banker Michael Foster in Shadyside I think ... and also regarding possibly SSA alumni possibly helping to grow the 2 WUaS flagship Educational Services' stores in Pgh ...
Thursday might be a possibility but I have a Siemens' Digital Twin Building video call (Thanks Peter Norvig?) at around 11 am, and a Google Education talk at 1 - and could Siemens' build out the Digital Twin of a first WUaS Educational Services' Bookstore in the old Williams Sonoma building (and in Google Street View iwth time slider, with GSketchpad too") ... More later ...
Love, Scott"
Heading out to Pittsburgh's
"... celebrating International Mother Language Day ... "
and perhaps I'll meet some prospective students for MIT OCW_centric Wiki World Univ & Sch interested in studying at WUAS in non-English languages even ... or similar ...
Then back to continue writing "Society, Information Technology, and the Global University" (Academic Press at World Univ & Sch 2024)
There is light at the end of the tunnel, and see the PPS below ...
The City of Pittsburgh is celebrating International Mother Language Day to highlight and celebrate the important role language plays in building a diverse and welcoming city where everyone feels safe to live and thrive!
We can't wait to see you there!
W Feb 21, 2024
9-11 City-County building Lobby 414 Grant St. Pgh PA 15219
The City of Pittsburgh is celebrating International Mother Language Day to highlight and celebrate the important role language plays in building a diverse and welcoming city where everyone feels safe to live and thrive!
Today's controversial opinion: I must say Las Vegas wins in my books. Cheaper, fewer resources, fewer slaves, build for the general public to enjoy rather than just a tomb for one crazy billionaire.
Today's controversial opinion: I must say Las Vegas wins in my books. Cheaper, fewer resources, fewer slaves, build for the general public to enjoy rather than just a tomb for one crazy billionaire. pic.twitter.com/uFgSjNJiNp
Ma (Janie - Quaker Friendly clerk of the WUaS Bookstore in Shadyside project?), Peter Norvig (Google AI), All,
Greetings!
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Wow - Airtable databases (after adding of my first book "Naked Harbin Ethnography" To the Harvard Bookstore web site) has a free intro I signed up for, on W 3/5/24
Is Airtable the database organization in SF which MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch wants to work with, if Google Workspace for Education isn't, for example, and if WUaS still can't publish from Google Street View with Time Slider to both 1) paper and 2) completely new hardware devices like brainwave headsets as books?
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AirTable vs Other Popular Database Tools: Comparison Guide
Ma, good morning. Your mentioning the word 'Lent' at the concert on Sunday made me wonder whether World Univ & Sch would get the loan from the Chase bank and regarding the letter from Chase about the 1.72% interest rate beginning March 26 (which is possibly worrisome ... but could be an amazing opportunity ) ... Will WUaS get the WUaS Bookstore up and running IT wise and Virtually TOO further with the new AirTable .com database and a workshop for this on 3/5/24 I signed up for ... & would WUaS also get a new Chase credit card for the WUaS Bookstore with WUaS Business plan ?
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And I asked a third question of Siemens' Digital Twin Building re video call today (after registering twice before this with different more general Physical-Digital questions) and re a practical design question of the Williams Sonoma building -
Digital Building Twin: Streamline Your Infrastructure Operations
Thu, Feb 22, 2024 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EST
Dear Steven Will,
Greetings. I've already registered (twice I think, with different questions each time), but want to add this practical brainstorming question:
could Siemens potentially build out the Digital Building Twin of a first MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch WUaS Educational Services' Bookstore in the old Williams Sonoma building on Walnut street in the Shadyside community of Pittsburgh PA (and in conjunction with Google Street View with time slider, GMaps ... with GSketchpad too) - to reinvent the bookstore computer store robotics' store, retail, and department stores - with multimedia rooms, augmented reality AI, holograms, brainwave headsets etc - and most significantly for a physical-digital #RealisticVirtualEarthForLegoRobotics (of which the WUaS Educational Services' Stores are an authorized carrier) - and #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics (which would include virtual twin modeling for Toyota THR3 humanoid robots, for example) - and planning for all the energy usage too?
I've been in communication with Peter Norvig (a head of Google AI), as well as Lego Education, about this many times - and regarding Peter's Lego Institute 2.
Looking forward to the webinar.
Thanks very much,
Scott GK MacLeod
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Could Siemens become our WUaS architect in Digital Building Twin, and for a song ?
Siemens employs 320,000 people presently.
How best to grow this flagship WUaS bookstore and potentially first on Walnut Street in Shadyside in Pittsburgh I wonder?
Siemens - Digital Building Twin: Streamline Your Infrastructure Operations * - #WUaSBookstore #WUaSBusinessPlan on #WalnutStreetPghPA ?
Dear Igor and Steve,
Greetings from CC-4 licensed MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch and the WUaS Educational Services' Stores for books, computers, robotics and hospital technologies +, planned in each of all 200 countries and in their main languages, as well as in all 7168 known living languages, and with an Academic Press at WUaS with machine translation learning and LLMs, - and thanks for your fantastic Siemens' presentation just now in "Digital Building Twin: Streamline Your Infrastructure Operations".
I've posted the questions I asked in the Q&A below, and, brainstorming:
Lastly - how could MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch possibly adapt the Siemens' Digital Building Twin software for Academic Research ... and, uniquely, in creating a virtual #RealisticVirtualHarbin Hot Springs (my ethnographic field site, and regarding my first book, and see below) in 1 realistic virtual earth with a realistic virtual earth for STEM as field sites, and classrooms too? (I'm thinking in terms of Google Street View with time slider, and soaking in the Harbin Hot Springs warm pool virtually from home in our bathtubs too - but also for studying the brain and bodymind with iterating brainwave headsets, etc., while people are soaking at actual virtual Harbin and potentially at virtual Harbin in digital masks, and more, from home)?
These are the questions I asked in the Q&A -
1 Great! - in the lifecycle of Digital Building Twin itself are you planning for moving from the virtual world building in 3D (that's cartoon-esque a bit) to a realistic virtual Earth, conceptually like Google Street View with time slider - and even in aqueous environments too, and for n-dimensionality realistic modeling at different scales? Greetings from MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch WUaS - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ and https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch - and Pennsylvania. Friendly regards, Scott
2 Igor and Steve - fantastic: could Siemens potentially build out the Digital Twin of a first MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch WUaS Educational Services' Bookstore in the old Williams Sonoma building on Walnut street in the Shadyside community of Pittsburgh PA (and in conjunction with Google Street View with time slider, GMaps ... with GSketchpad too) - to reinvent the bookstore computer store robotics' store, retail, and department stores - with multimedia rooms, augmented reality AI, holograms - and most significantly for a physical-digital #RealisticVirtualEarthForLegoRobotics (of which the WUaS Educational Services' Stores are an authorized carrier) - and #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics ?
I've been in communication with Peter Norvig (a head of Google AI), as well as Lego Education, about this many times - and regarding Peter's Lego Institute 2. - Scott (a picture of the Williams Sonoma store, a Lego Robot, and a first Book the WUaS bookstore will carry
In what ways could the Digital Building Twin become a parallel VIRTUAL REALISTIC bookstore to a physical bookstore computer store robotics' store (at WUaS Educational Services' stores - planned also in all 200 countries and in their main languages ) one with Siemens' Digital Building Twins' systems? Thanks, Scott ...
Flagship #WUaSBookstore on #WalnutSt #PghPA w #SiemensDigitalBuildingTwin w #PhysicalDigital #RealisticVirtualEarthForLegoRobotics (of which #WUaSEducationalServicesStores @WUaSPress are authorized #LegoRoboticsKits' carrier) #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics from #GStreetView ?
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Warm greetings from western Pennsylvania (having applied for a 2024-2025 Stanford Law CodeX Fellowship position too, with a housing option on Stanford's campus, but not having heard anything since I applied ... and I continue to be interested in moving the WUaS Academic Medical Center with virtual warm water cure with the WUaS Longevity Genetics' Institute into a newly safe Canyon 94516 possibly in 2024 too)!
I'm writing to wish you a very happy Valentine's Day - Tuesday Feb 14 ... (How is your health scare mending, Byron? ... Am appreciating 10-15 servings of fruits, grains, legumes and vegetables per day ... and think it's very beneficial for my health, and appreciate too that Harvard And MIT professor of Genetics' George Church is a vegan in these regards) ...
May I invite you all to a contra dance possibly in the autumn or before and possibly at the UU Church up on a hill overlooking the bay in San Rafael as a Valentine's Day celebration?
Byron and Cindy, it would be great to see you more than occasionally, like for carol singing, if and when I move the World Univ & Sch Academic Medical Center with virtual warm water cure with WUaS Longevity Genetics' Institute forward into a newly safe open 670 Ridgecrest Rd. Canyon 94516 this year (~4 miles from Moraga) :)
Friendly regards, best wishes, kindly,
Scott
PS
Here's my Friends' Dalton Letter for you which I wrote while living among Quakers in Scotland in 2003-2004 (and studying at the University of Edinburgh too), much about love and caring & re Valentine's Day -
I'm writing to wish you a further Happy Valentine's day, a bit belatedly. Happy Valentine's Day 2024!
A further Valentine's Day question:
can you all figure out as MDs, scientists, geneticists, and with expertise in vaccines too, how to help us all live for millions of years as individual body minds or organisms so we can also celebrate Valentine's Days for millions or billions of years ahead too (and as 25 year olds some of this time)? :) Might we also explore doing this in a realistic virtual earth for genetics / genomics and in conjunction with Avatar Agent Electronic Health Records even - and at MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch, based out of Canyon 94516?
Scott's an anthropologist of physical-digital Harbin Hot Springs, as ethnographic field site - https://goo.gl/maps/7gSsSTweRCBo9gf87 - who also finds fascinating the internet, ideas, poetry, sociology, art, science, genetics of aging reversal and extreme longevity, philosophy, history, music, love and life ~ as well as the anthropology of information technology & counterculture :) -
scottmacleod.com ... Am also the president or head of, and professor at, MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch (& Academic @WUaSPress, planned in 7,164 living languages with machine translation, aka the WUaS Corp) planning free online degrees in ~200 countries & in their main languages, where you can wiki-teach, or wiki-learn, or wiki-create - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects (see too: http://www.scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html in exploring questions of Yoga & wisdom). Identity-wise, a Nontheist Friendly Quaker - a NtF or NtQ - with Unitarian Universalist sympathies as well, and an academic
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