Earthsystems.blogspot.com Website Review

A series of thoughts concerning the need to develop new thinking and processes regarding decisions and decision-making in the evolution of my colleagues Dan Sarewitz and Braden Allenby put it this way (parenthetically, I might add):  “Turning a corporate brand into a verb is one flag of a socially interesting phenomenon, and in this case ‘to google’ is a profound statement about important, and very new, changes in cognitive systems.”  I have resisted most verbifications and I find the “google” one particularly problematic, but that is tangential to my story here.  What is interesting to me here is that in my mind and often my vocalizations, when many people say “google”, I say “grep”.  “grep” actually is a verb in that all unix commands are verbs.  functioned as a very flat database and coughed up just the number or string that I needed through my clever use of grep and its as*ociated regular expressions (yes, I was that guy).  So when I think about searching that darn near (?) incomprehensible thing we call the internet, my brain makes leaps back to horrendous and darn near unmanageable text files full of geodetic data and the had to tell me about a stations whose first letters were “DIAB” (with a simple flag that I no longer remember, I could tell grep to ignore case as well).   In my mind then, one does not google the internet, one greps it.  All that Google has done is provide a really big incredibly interesting flat file for me to search.  And this amplifies Allenby regarding the distribution of the future) - we already are transhuman. perniciousness of bullsh*t are only becoming more salient. It seems to me that most of what pas*es(?) for discourse today is exactly what Frankfurt defines as bullsh*t. The essence of bullsh*t is a complete lack of concern with the truth or falsehood of statements being made. opposite sides of the game. Each responds to the facts as he understands them. The bullsh*tter ignores these demands altogether.