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OH "Civilization speed run Olympics where groups of eight people compete on how technological advanced they can become in two months starting with sticks and stones and their bare hands." (18 days ago) https://t.co/RkQTG6TEAr
"Phase II of @HTMEverything: Where we start taking the 'everything' MUCH more literally [...] Rebuild society thru time and reach the modern era. We're basically speed running the history of human innovation..."https://t.co/0X1QEELlAGyes please.
@HTMEverything "That computer from 'the time machine' is perhaps inspired by Douglas Adam's 'Hyperland' https://t.co/tyjlFW6QDO which is itself seems to be partially inspired by some 1930's science fiction."https://t.co/w7YpgV2O7e
@HTMEverything Did you know the Hitchhiker's guide, a sort of science fiction itself, was inspired by real life?I don't say this lightly, I think we need a book that contains all of human knowledge in an interactive agent / video format.https://t.co/g30nY25aVt https://t.co/MxSdAu8vmi
@HTMEverything A "book"? Just a bunch of cellulose smeared with pigment, arranged in a pattern etched on some fancy rocks, using light.https://t.co/oRejbCbzZw
This group (Homeostatic Mechanisms) is loosely based on the "Simple Critical Infrastructure Maps" framework from https://t.co/NOvfVPl0Ss and can be considered a start at building out an interactive 'Hitchhiker's Guide' for exploring ways of acting on the problems it highlights.
Trying to turn my 'exoself' into a "book".A body to encode the memories of civilization, compressed into a chaotic map of how to rebuild society from scratch.https://t.co/HlVbtRnent
Seeding your mind with abstract thoughts on how to persist society.https://t.co/sYgYW0M8n5
"I figure at some point it needs to be embedded within the ethos of a society so that the knowledge can be maintained. Even rocks turn to dust due to entropy. https://t.co/l1LvKcYU8jIt's a sort of anxiety driven hobby."https://t.co/w7YpgV2O7ehttps://t.co/cUat4fUqsP