Please enjoy your stay on Planet Earth. - while i’m doing interdiscplinary thinking… ...

Linear A.
Ancient language, lost to the modern day. Largely undecipherable.

So this got me to thinking . . . what if machines do have a subconscious of their own? What if machines right now are like human babies, which have brains but no way of expressing themselves except screaming (crashing)? What would a machine's subconscious look like? How does it feed off what we give it? If machines could talk to us, what would they say?

- Douglas Coupland, Microserfs

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while i’m doing interdiscplinary thinking…

written by brautigan while poet-in-residence at caltech. it’s very much of its time — california 1967, the summer of love — yet somehow timeless.

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