Harbingers

John Boyd talked about "fingerspitzengefuehle". The fingertip feeling, the ability to sense changes as they are starting, but before they manifest.

Now feels like such a time, and it requires us to pay attention. For my own part, I think it requires longer posts, slightly less often, as we poke into the corners of the changes that we're sensing to see if we can make sense of them.

To give myself the time to think. I'm going to change the cadence here to two posts a month rather than four, starting in April. I'll share my ideas on where we might go with this on Friday.

A thought for this Tuesday....

Our vision of the possible and the feasible is so restricted by industrial expectations that any alternative to more mass production sounds like a return to past oppression or like a Utopian design for noble savages. In fact, however, the vision of new possibilities requires only the recognition that scientific discoveries can be used in at least two opposite ways. The first leads to specialization of functions, institutionalization of values and centralization of power and turns people into the accessories of bureaucracies or machines. The second enlarges the range of each person’s competence, control, and initiative, limited only by other individuals’ claims to an equal range of power and freedom.

Ivan Illich. Tools for Conviviality