Scott MacLeod's Anthropology of Information Technology & Counterculture

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

Thursday, November 24, 2016

Kalahari Desert: Harvard Medical School re possible collaborations/partnering with the online Medical Schools and teaching hospitals at CC WUaS, HMS online courses, Stanford Medicine online video, a kind of kernel for an online teaching hospital, "World University Medical School" - "Digital World Medical School" - "Clinical Trials at WUaS (for all languages)" wiki subject page - Creative Commons' licensed WUaS's business model partly involves seeking donations from all countries (per GDP?) for their online medical students along the lines of the $44,000+ per year, Happy Indigenous People's Day!, Stanford Medicine Grand Rounds, Nov 02, 2016 (Wed)

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Dear J.T.K. MD,  Great to talk just now, and thank you. Looking forward to further communication with J.H. MD, and D.R. MD, and others...
Wednesday, November 23, 2016

Lake Skadar: Basic Universal Income & World University and School re Stanford Law panel ... WUaS is developing free, highest quality CC MIT OCW-centric (in 7 languages) and CC Yale OYC-centric and wiki CC universal education (200 countries' major universities with law schools in their languages and wiki schools planned for all 7,097 living languages) ... How might WUaS help facilitate a basic universal income?

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Hi Scott,  Greetings. Thanks for further connecting on Twitter recently ( https://twitter.com/ scottsantens ).  I'm developing ...
Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Quantock Hills, England: Fascinating Harvard Internet talk this morning with Scott Bradner, who was involved in the design of the Internet for decades, Scott O. Bradner - "IANA: Important, but not for what they do," Should be accessible soon, I'll use this video, history and recent legal developments in the course I teach at WUaS on "Information Technology, the Network Society, and the Global University" ~ (Course & Syllabus) http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html (http://scottmacleod.com/papers.htm), As I see it, both Scott Bradner and Jon Postel were very much hippies in helping to design the Internet, and as such helped infuse a kind of hippy ethos into its governance and structure, of no one being in control, and Scott explains how this happened in part in his talk, IANA as a non-profit emerged out of ICANN and Harvard Law ... and may be a model for World University and School's exploring developing our For-Profit wing out of Stanford Law, for example

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Fascinating Harvard Internet talk this morning with Scott Bradner, who was involved in the design of the Internet for decades. Scott O. B...
Monday, November 21, 2016

Penikese island, MA: Penikese was a "virtual" field site for Harvard Prof Agassiz (1873) ... or an "as if" site, a) it involved sea transportation to get there (in a boat - with parallels to information technologies) to a different bounded separate "world," b) it was a field site (for the study of natural history of the Elizabeth Islands) in an isolated, separate environment (both Penikese and Cuttyhunk islands were probably deforested in the 1600s) with much potential for comparison with other places/field sites, both actual and virtual, and c) it was for academic learning and study - and explicitly by observation (with parallels to anthropological field work as participant observation), and specifically for learning not by recitation of books, I hope the realistic virtual earth WUaS plans to create in something like Google Street View/Maps/Earth with Time Slider and OpenSim, for ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy, will become a STEM field site and classroom for matriculated WUaS students to learn ... as if a Harvard or Stanford online, with parallels to Penikese, Agassiz at Penikese in The American Naturalist from 1898, Local origins of famous Cuffe family re Cuttyhunk

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Penikese Island was a "virtual" field site for Harvard Prof Agassiz ... or an "as if" site, and " c) as somethin...
Sunday, November 20, 2016

Jaldapara National Park: How to set mind on eliciting loving bliss neurophysiology per Stanford's Alia Crum's STEM research on "Mindset"?, Loving bliss can be amazingly great neurophysiology brain-wise, but in terms of context, what are loving bliss qualities of brain chemistry?, To think of the world through the lens of individuals' neurophysiologies is fascinating and mind-expanding (especially when one goes beyond the 7 billion humans on the planet today to the 3 species of primates closest genetically to us), I'd like to set my mind on this and realize it, and help others do the same if they're interested, * Related wiki subjects at WUaS:

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Very curious about how to set mind on eliciting loving bliss neurophysiology per Stanford's Alia Crum's STEM research on "Mind...
Saturday, November 19, 2016

Valbonë Valley National Park, Albania: CC MIT ocw SOIL SCIENCE courses that might interest you, Scottish Country Dancing, Sailing, German Conversation in Google Hangouts, Albania, Poland, German and Russian World University and Schools, planned in their languages

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Kent! Nice to see and talk with you again at Scottish Country Dancing in Berkeley. It's so great you're studying for your P...
Friday, November 18, 2016

Black grouse: Wonder what scaling World University will be like, Grow like Google, with its innovations as it grows AI wise, to ~ 50,000 employees, for example - and in Wikidata (Wikipedia's back end) in its 358 languages, Looks like I got an offer yesterday to give a Stanford Law Codex talk in January or spring re WUaS's online planned law schools in all countries' main languages, How about substituting a different new's show (Democracy Now online?) for your daily ritual?, There's no major US newspaper way out on the left that I can think of - seems like a real opportunity for Berkeley (or UC, since UC remembers), for example, Excellent web-based left-leaning newspapers that are gaining widespread traction?, World University and School now has two new newspapers, that generate so far their own content, What radical papers are emerging in paper.li I wonder?, Re giving up your "News" rituals post-election, and in terms of print media compared with video / TV, I think "Global Voices Online" - https://globalvoices.org - might interest you, "In These Times" - http://inthesetimes.com/ - out of Chicago could be another one, but it seems fairly Illinois-centric

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Hi M, No 5 am morning today, I wonder what scaling World University will be like. What happens if we can grow like Google, with its i...
Thursday, November 17, 2016

Koala bear: I found Stanford Professor Alia Crum's talk at Ground Rounds yesterday once again inspiring, Mindsets matter relative to body biological processes and she's proving how scientifically - so, placebo effects have measurable benefits, I hope to build on her work and re eliciting loving bliss neurophysiology as well experimentally and re the placebo effect, (Build on her thoracic surgery / morphine and ghrelin approaches, communicating with half of a sample that they'll feel profoundly lovingly blissful, ecstatic and happy, and not communicating with the other half anything, while giving them MDMA; add another group in the Harbin warm pool, and with brain wave headsets, like Tan Le's - seek to measure oxytocins, dopamine, seratonin, endorphins, the neurochemistry of romantic love~heightened levels of four neurotrophins, - i.e. NGF, BDNF, NT-3, and NT-4 http://scottmacleod.com/daltonletter.htm), "Shawn Achor: The happy secret to better work"

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Tired here from 2 5am mornings in a row. Interesting speaking and financial developments emerged recently at Stanford too re WUaS. I f...
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Scott's an anthropologist of #PhysicalDigital Harbin Hot Springs' Heart Consciousness Church @HarbinBook (on #TwitterX), as ethnographic field site - https://goo.gl/maps/7gSsSTweRCBo9gf87 - who is currently writing "Society, Info Tech & the Global Univ", who also finds fascinating the internet, ideas, poetry, sociology, art, science, genetics of aging reversal & extreme longevity drug therapies emerging (with FDA approval), philosophy, history, music, love and life ~ as well as the anthropology of info tech & counterculture :) - scottmacleod.com; Am also the president or head of, and professor at, best STEAM CC OCW wiki World Univ & Sch & Academic @WUaSPress, planned in 7,159 living languages with machine translation, (aka the WUaS Corp) planning free online degrees in ~200 countries & in their main languages, where you can #WikiTeach, or #WikiLearn, or #WikiCreate - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects (See too "Yoga Notations": http://www.scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html). Identity-wise, a Nontheist f/Friendly Quaker - a NtF or NtQ - with Unitarian Universalist sympathies as well, and a player of Scottish bagpipes, & an academic
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