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Re: The Dinosaurs Of Tomorrow

New Music Release — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:13:46 -0000

You really know how to depress someone!

Your predictions can come true, that is the worst part.

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GiveBackToYourself — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 03:33:39 -0000

As much as I love you're wrting I hope you're prediction of blogs dying dont come true. That would be an ultimate disaster!

Cant imagine the net without blogs.

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HSN — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 01:36:49 -0000

I liked your prediction number on very much, but one tab on Firefox! That can be a disaster.

Clothing, I think that many will take up to naturalism.

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psychics — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 01:29:52 -0000

There are times when I do feel that all this is going to come to . I think we all have to introspect seriously...

We have this one life... What do we make out of it? Be strikingly different or just be another someone...

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Rakeback — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 07:06:46 -0000

I liked the clothes part, I think it is very true that we are losing one piece of clothing, well hopefully you said that we would be wearing something.

I think that in the end there has to be and end and the best or worst part is that we wont be there to see it.

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ophelia_chong — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 11:01:45 -0000

It's a tool. Think of it as a tool that you have in your kit. You are a craftsman, and the internet is your tool to create whatever you want. Learn how to use that tool and you will be the master of your craft.

Thanks for commenting. :O)

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Tarot — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 10:21:04 -0000

More and more I thinking about technology being our slave, the more and more the idea breaks to me that we or in particular "I" am a slave of technology.

I really ponder about what i'd be without the internet and its really very very hard to imagine!

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fossil — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:35:43 -0000

"To express ourselves we will wear individually designed t-shirts with our personal opinion of the world written across and of course with our contact info."

I do that already lol

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ophelia_chong — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:56:22 -0000

will they have comfy "goth" clothes? less studs more velour.:O) Sort of a Track Suit version of Goth clothing. Velour Goth by Marilyn Manson sold at JC Penny's...

:O)

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Rachel — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:43:41 -0000

I think, in prediction two, that it will be more that people may turn towards wearing more clothes suited to their individual type and personality. For example, people who wear renaissance, bondage, SCA, punk, goth, or Loli-goth garb only at events, might actually start wearing them as regular everyday where. I mean, why not?

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gregorylent — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:28:58 -0000

nice. have not read it, but can definitely empathize with petra. patanjali yoga sutras has a chapter on all the powers a developed awareness has, they are called siddhis. knowing what the mind can do, it seems easier to understand where all the tech is going.

just looked at your link ... a book i read long ago ... thanks

thanks for your reply, enjoy

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ophelia_chong — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:24:16 -0000

i am on twitter, and I have a persistent Good Morning and Good Evening salutation.

Have you read the book The Chrysalids? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chrysalids

Near the end of the book Petra (the strongest of the telepaths) is in the "hovering machine"and she has to shut her mind off to all the twittering masses; she can hear everyone's thoughts. This is what Twitter is on a lower form. You hear thoughts that float in the air. Some interesting, most not.

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gregorylent — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:14:05 -0000

yes, the mind can already do everything that technology will ever do, it is all based in consciousness ..... twitter is just for people whose intuition is not yet developed, laggards, basically .. :-)

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ophelia_chong — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:07:11 -0000

We flew in our dreams before we actually could, we went to space before the first step on the moon. In art we are able to visualize the next step, it's building the machines that slow us down. Yes technology is far behind, drawing a dream is easier than to making it real.

and thank you for the compliment. :O))
ophelia

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ophelia_chong — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:02:48 -0000

Referring to the Malthusian check...
I just finished book one of the graphic novel The Walking Dead. It's about a post apocalyptic society that has two sides, flesh eating Zombies and the living. The remaining noneffected humans run to safe ground by using their wits and a rubber hose to fill up their RV tank. No internet, no phones, nothing. It's scarier than hell. Anarchy ensues. If we lost all forms of communication, what will happen?

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gregorylent — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 07:26:32 -0000

technology seems way behind the mind, and way behind the leading edge thinking humans. but it is also behind life as it is.

indian villages are way ahead in the clothing category, they already dress that way.

psychics are leading in category one, and as for category three, coffee houses and campfires have been handling the social dialogues for centuries. some people tell long stories, others just grunt.

we mistake the approximate for the real.

and the art of ophelia chong is very interesting. life inside the lotus. a perfect metaphor for the relationship between consciousness and technology.

enjoy, gregory

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Joshua — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 06:53:07 -0000

Really, Technology that uses the least energy, in all senses of the word. I think we can know more about its powerand less time to use. Good information.

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sbspalding — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 03:15:54 -0000

I am not sure if the problem is in the technology. If we revert to pre-industrial living, we're dead as door-nails anyway (see: Malthusian Check - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malthusian_check)

I think the better idea is to start turning technology towards something useful, like pushing us away from being a dead-tree society to something more sustainable (see: Kardashev Scale - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale)

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sbspalding — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 03:15:16 -0000

I am not sure if the problem is in the technology. If we revert to pre-industrial living, we're dead as door-nails anyway (see: Malthusian Check -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malthusian_check)

I think the better idea is to start turning technology towards something useful, like pushing us away from being a dead-tree society to something more sustainable (see: Kardashev Scale - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale)

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ophelia_chong — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 17:42:42 -0000

You are right about going back to a simpler existence. What if we could all work from home, and tend to our gardens during short breaks from the computer? That's what I do now. Instead of driving to an office, I get up and walk down to the studio/office. I go out and water the plants after sending off files and look at the trees, watching them flower. I picked a few pounds of figs, and made jam. I have found my expenses have dropped since working at home rather than an office, no dry cleaning, no gas, no bought lunches. Pared down to cable, phone, internet.

Imagine if even 5% more people worked from home, the smog, the gas, the wear and tear on the roads.

The contents of my garage are a symbol of waste, of buying ever improving equipment to stay ahead.

I remember watching Gilligan's Island and being amazed at what they could do with a coconut. What could we do with limited resources? It remains to be seen, only when the tap gets turned off will the real geniuses of scarcity will surface.

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Maggy Young — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 17:22:04 -0000

Hi Ophelia, I dunno, but I often hope we get bored with it & revert to a more natural existence, based on grow & rear your own & countryside.
You have some lovely fruit trees in your plot, aside from fruiting year after year, they will look much prettier than the contents of your garage & also help the earth.

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ophelia_chong — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 17:08:37 -0000

I look in my garage and I see a MacClassic, an eBook, a few zip drives, boxes of scsi cables, and who knows how many keyboards. Digging through the boxes, is like a dig for fossils. Each time I unearth something, I remember when I bought it and thought "wow, this will really make my life easier". As I type on my bluetooth keyboard, I wonder when will this piece become a bit of dust in the garage?

From megabytes to gigabytes to terabytes. From zip disks to cd burners to pocket drives to flash drives to Apple Time Capsules, where next?

Re: The Dinosaurs Of Tomorrow

Maggy Young — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:06:41 -0000

Hey what an interesting link. Somehow I think we'fe going off into anthropology, away from the real points of the post, which is a bit cussed, but it makes for an unusual discussion point on a web 2.0 blog. But sure is true, with the pace of tech change, it doesn't take much to become a dino, but then you could be happier as a dino..

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Emily Wong — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:14:10 -0000

Hi Ophelia,

Love the post and the dino visuals. When I first read your title, I misread it and thought it said designosaurs. Hmm... Let's go back to the days of rapidographs and paste ups! No, I'm just kidding.

Oh dear, meteorites, ice age... you know there's a theory that the dinosaurs wiped themselves out by farting.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/85581...

I totally copied and pasted that link ~___^

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ophelia_chong — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:46:40 -0000

Space Suits with SPF 1000. Not looking forward to the Dune solution to water scarcity. It's already here, but only for watering plants in the parks.

I always ponder what would I do if I took the time spent online (not for work) and what would I do with it?

thanks for commenting :O)