I like this exercise of drawing mind maps. Our textbooks have well-evolved conventions for both 2D and 3D displays. Sometimes I like to see Synergetics as encouragement to the biz community (aka buzz community) to get off the plane and do org charts in space. Use planets for orgs.
Where to draw inspiration: Little Prince. Sun Ra. Star Trek.
To tune in a system is to pull up alongside a planet, another spaceship, an encounter of a "we-to-a-WTF" kind.
Newspapers always gave us The Daily Planet. Thinking in the round about our planet is nothing new, I think I hear Bucky saying, just that we've always had landlubber flat-earther types, and they're not necessarily only the "out" ones you'd think of.
Like he'd like "tongue-lash" professors at MIT for their obsolete "sun comes up and goes down" jargon, though I think "tongue-in-cheek" is also apt. His outbursts were cartoonish, as in politically animated. He did some cannon balls off the diving board into our public swimming pool, making waves at 90 degrees.
One may say one is "apolitical" but on the world stage that just makes one another type of actor. Earth to Little Prince: "Welcome to PolyTiks Planet". I'm punning on "poly" as in "polyhedron" and "poli" as in "polis police politics" -- a pseudo-etymology, a form of wordplay. The Tik sounds like TikTok, suggesting all TikTokkers are political actors. That's what I'd call "spin".
I do enjoy TikTok BTW, as well as Instagram. Lots of design related stuff goes on through these archives, continually sifted-through by mind-guided brains.
The inevitability of our "playing politics" is that same inevitability as of our playing World Game. We want "the right" to get off the boat so to speak ("don't judge me as you would a world game player"), and maybe protest too much about it.
I just got Architecture in the Age of Radio delivered by the Borg (Amazon), and flashed it around, still shrink wrapped, on camera with Shrikant, during the pre-meeting yesterday.
https://flic.kr/p/2myLcjQ (picture of the book, still in plastic)
I was in lurk mode during the event, given other Wanderer types were gathered in my backyard, with the iPad like our flickering fire, complete with storytellers. I later moved the show indoors when it got dark.
The "analog background" versus "digital foreground" theme was hugely front and center last night, as you might hear from the upcoming Youtube.
