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Cloud History, Cloud Thinking
- Artemix 10y agoEither way, we still mock airheads
- pmoriarty 10y agoI'm looking forward to the day the cloud fades away.
- Animats 10y agoDerrida and weather control in one article. Back before Silicon Valley was Silicon Valley and had extensive agriculture, Santa Clara County had a weather control program. When water-laden cloud formations were about to pass over without rain, silver iodide generators would be fired up across the Valley. This would generate a little extra rain.
- nfixx 10y agoLike most metaphors, this one is likely to be easily misunderstood or at worst, taken for granted. That a potent message is delivered in a long narrative worthy of careful, contemplative reading, might make many miss the nuggets within (if not abandon this all-together). That we are part of the enigma we are hoping to master makes things the more cloudy - is total abstraction possible? The article is a huge open question too. Nice reading, very startling too. I did get inspired to try an idea or two... perhaps to add to an already increasing plethora of tweaks to our cloudy reality. It's in our nature too.