Over there on the right, under “Pages” you will find the text of a draft of our experience with Kevin Kelly.

Baloney Research has scored a Google+ Hangout with Author Kevin Kelly to discuss “What Technology Wants” on 2011-11-25 19:00 PST for 90 minutes.  Mr. Kelly will discuss his book and answer questions.  We should probably create a list of questions in advance to make sure we cover what we want:

Agenda:

What does technology want?

“When populations around the globe started turning to agriculture around 10,000 years ago, regardless of their locations and type of crops, a similar trend occurred: The height and health of the people declined.

“This broad and consistent pattern holds up when you look at standardized studies of whole skeletons in populations,”…early agriculturalists experienced nutritional deficiencies and had a harder time adapting to stress, probably because they became dependent on particular food crops, rather than having a more significantly diverse diet.”

She adds that growth in population density spurred by agriculture settlements led to an increase in infectious diseases, likely exacerbated by problems of sanitation and the proximity to domesticated animals and other novel disease vectors….” Full Slice

“…2008 saw the longest and weakest solar minimum since scientists have been monitoring the sun with space-based instruments.

Observations have shown, however, that magnetic effects on Earth due to the sun, effects that cause the aurora to appear, did not go down in synch with the cycle of low magnetism on the sun…these effects on Earth did in fact reach a minimum — indeed they attained their lowest levels of the century — but some eight months later. The scientists believe that factors in the speed of the solar wind, and the strength and direction of the magnetic fields embedded within it, helped produce this anomalous low….” Full Slice

“Single-cell organisms have been known to live deep in the earth, more than 9,000 feet below the surface.

But until now, it was thought that the temperature, energy, oxygen and space constraints of the subsurface biosphere were too extreme for multicellular organisms….” Full Slice

“It may not be Atlantis, but evidence of a lost civilization probably lies beneath the waves all along the Washington coast — in fact, all along the Pacific coast from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego.

A recently announced discovery of stone tools on California’s northern Channel Islands, just across the Santa Barbara Channel from the city of Santa Barbara, may tell us a good deal about what that civilization did….” Full Slice

The inventor of the vanadium redox flow battery is interviewed.

As discussed in Research Sessions, the vanadium flow battery possesses some utility in electrical power storage, along with various disadvantages. This report, from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, purports to increase the advantages.

That Face the Normative Social Psychologist - Abraham Maslow (1968)

“…How good a society does human nature permit? How good a human nature does society permit? What is possible and feasible? What is not?…”

Like it or not, the questions Maslow surfaces in this paper are the ones we are dealing with when we decide to pontificate about human problems and suggest our solutions. Obviously I think it would be very wise for all of us to consider Mr. Maslow`s paper and use it as a guide to shaping our discussions. A (almost) Full Slice

[This reference is the closest I have come to finding this paper on the web. Anyone that can discover an accessable complete copy please let me know.]

1. Ed - Quirk theory vis-a-vis the recent multidimensional patents by Baloneys and the cellbase project by other Baloneys.  Multidimensional organization a natural evoluationary process in data storage, navigation and transformation indicated by the emergent patent work.  Quirk queries into cellspaces as theorems of the mathematical theory.
   Timeline’s multidimensional sorting patent
   Rob’s multidimensional vector subspace for token analysis patent
   Wad’s multidimensional organization of portolio information objects patent
2. Ed - Web organization to maximize networking effects.  Consideration of Daily Kos version 4 as an exemplar of the “outer” ring of Web “ping paths” we want to set up to drive traffic to more “inner” rings.  Establishing Baloney memes through circuits of ping paths laid down by coordinated design and execution.
3. Dean - Statistical bootstrapping and multidimensional sequence analysis for detecting quirks.
4. Wad - Wadical Capitalism.  A private sector insurance based response to King County Sheriff refusal to investigate unincorporated King County residential crimes.
5. Dean, Ed - Global Village Construction Kit.
6. Dean - Which is worse, impeding action or advancing action on climate change? And how would either position be defended. Reference. (Note: wording changed from prior agenda, link from prior agenda edited to refer to the document in question).
7. Dean - Planet hunting? Worthy or other?