the sixth discontinuity
this is a version of 'seventh sense' (captured about two years ago). I was inspired to post a second version this week after reading "The Fifth and Sixth Discontinuity" on Kevin Kelly's The Technium.
"Philosopher Bruce Mazlish claims that the eyes of science have overthrown humanity's view of itself in a series of revelations. At each unveiling, we descend one notch. In the first removal, Copernicus dethroned our common-sense assumption that our world stood at the center of the universe. Astronomy eventually revealed, with a shock, that we were a minor tribe huddled on a small speck circling a nondescript star at the outer edge of an immense average galaxy floating among a trillion others in one small corner of the universe. The noble distinction between us and the rest of the universe was eliminated to reveal a continuous continuity of existence. Our perceived exceptionalism was demoted to the ordinary. Within the universe, we were not set apart, but dwelt in a continuum."
www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2009/06/the_fifth_and_s.php
seventh sense
www.flickr.com/photos/wwworks/1291468732/
the sixth discontinuity
this is a version of 'seventh sense' (captured about two years ago). I was inspired to post a second version this week after reading "The Fifth and Sixth Discontinuity" on Kevin Kelly's The Technium.
"Philosopher Bruce Mazlish claims that the eyes of science have overthrown humanity's view of itself in a series of revelations. At each unveiling, we descend one notch. In the first removal, Copernicus dethroned our common-sense assumption that our world stood at the center of the universe. Astronomy eventually revealed, with a shock, that we were a minor tribe huddled on a small speck circling a nondescript star at the outer edge of an immense average galaxy floating among a trillion others in one small corner of the universe. The noble distinction between us and the rest of the universe was eliminated to reveal a continuous continuity of existence. Our perceived exceptionalism was demoted to the ordinary. Within the universe, we were not set apart, but dwelt in a continuum."
www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2009/06/the_fifth_and_s.php
seventh sense
www.flickr.com/photos/wwworks/1291468732/