Presenting the work of Mayer Spivack
Will The Keyboard Ever Disappear?
by Mayer Spivack22 Feb 2010 at 3:05 pm
We now accept that voice activated computers have come of age. There are many applications of voice input that are used by people wishing to avoid using their keyboards. We read about direct brain control of the computer interface and have seen convincing demos of this in action as a prosthetic assist and as research effort. Soon that too will seem commonplace.
The profusion of technologies that
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A Quantum-Entangled One-Time-Pad For Continuous Transmission.
by Mayer Spivack13 Feb 2010 at 2:29 pm
Masahiro Hotta at Tohoku University
in Japan has proposed an energy and information teleportation system,
(Ref: arxiv.org/abs/1002.0200 Energy-Entanglement
Relation for Quantum Energy Teleportation). His proposal, as I understand it,
would be limit
iPad Launch Viewers Overload Information Channels
by Mayer Spivack27 Jan 2010 at 3:34 pm
Today the Apple Tablet media crunch by Steve Jobs has created an enormous demand for information. We have become a swarm of distributed agent systems programmed to follow Jobs. “Distributed agent systems r(u)n by themselves…You set them up and let them go.” (M Crichton, Prey, p.500). We techies recursively crowded internet sites, and caused channel overloads? 
(see this blog:
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Read Steven Weber's Discussion Of Why Art Is Vital
by Mayer Spivack9 Jun 2009 at 10:11 am
I recommend reading Steven Weber's article on the importance of art in education and the mind. find it onThe Huffington Post at:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-weber/its-arts-time_b_212732.html
I read new posts on the Huffington Post several times each day. The journalistic freedom and effort there, the truths revealed and doors knocked off their hinges have become an essential isotope of ... read more
Way Out On A Limbic About Quantum Entanglement for Associative Recall and Thi...
by Mayer Spivack16 Jan 2010 at 4:16 pm
(Please follow me at @MayerSpivack on Twitter for further articles and discussion)
Perhaps I am overreacting to a query at the end of an article discussing the implications of Quantum entanglement in organic environments—Technology Review by K. Birgitta Whaley et al. at the Berkeley Center for Quantum Information and Computation as published in Quantum Phy
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Could Information-Projectiles be our Legacy?
by Mayer Spivack31 May 2009 at 5:55 pm
The internet, and within it the blogosphere, are not legacy media. The internet races always into the future trailing it’s comet’s tail, a short electric past, while blogs and websites tumble into their own archives and disappear forever. Websites and weblogs if not kept up (and paid up), lapse, leaving only limited traces to be traced in future decades. What wisdoms, without durable
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I Reject Intuition and Insight
by Mayer Spivack30 May 2009 at 9:20 pm
I think of the word intuition and the word insight as far too-comfortable and simplistic euphemisms for complex associative / syncretic /concilliative processes that operate in the brain all the time, and that we are too lazy to examine. We use the words intuition and insight to cover up the fact that we do not know how creativity operates, or what it really is. I don’t trust many of the words i
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Visual thought and the ‘blind’ artist
by Mayer Spivack28 May 2009 at 8:42 pm
Please watch the video about the work of the artist Esref Armagan at the end of this posting. 
It presents a credible record of the process of a Turkish artist, Esref Armagan, born blind, who nonetheless draws and paints. Despite the ‘common sense’ impression one might have that this is a trick, his is not a ‘supernatural’ ability or parlor trick in which he attempts to convinc
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Was It Torture?
by Mayer Spivack6 Jun 2009 at 7:15 pm
Was It Torture that the Bush administration lawyers allowed, within ‘limits’? My first question is how could they have known if it was or was not torture? Had they tried the various techniques on themselves or on each other in a specially equipped legal dungeon with a dispassionate group, twelve of their peers, observing, taking snapshots, and helping to form a decision? It is common to expe
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Art and Real Value *
by Mayer Spivack15 Apr 2009 at 5:22 pm
Artists have practice in survival on minimal rations and
little income. Many make little or no income from art, but with pluck and luck
can make a side-job support their own work efforts. Peanut-butter and impasto paint
are both common artist’s materials. Peanuts in—paints out.
Some people must be paid to do a stitch of work, while artists gladly pay for the privilege of working. That is the
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Economic Recession and The Psychological Ecosystem Around Individual Depressi...
by Mayer Spivack8 Apr 2009 at 3:02 pm
Economic recession and depression are part of the larger psychological ecosystem that interacts with individual human depression. If we were too busy to notice these relationships before the current economic ‘downturn’, we cannot fail to be aware of it now if we read the headlines.
We all live together in a largely unnoticed greater context of nested interacting ecosystems. This is a way of d
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Those Who Work With Money Are Tempted To Play With Money
by Mayer Spivack21 Mar 2009 at 12:44 pm
When you work with other people’s money you may be tempted to play with money. Some bankers now seem to fear that no one will trust them or pay them again—ever, so they are trying to quickly grab as  much cash as they can on the way out of the tower, a case of institutional ‘take the money and run’.
In a few months time, everything they value or measure value by, has been devalu
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by Mayer Spivack27 Feb 2009 at 6:32 pm
Everyone who loves music should follow this link to a performance from Venezuela during the recent TED conference. I think that this is an unbreathable performance. Now that I have inhaled, I cannot remember such energy in a conductor or orchestra integrated so well since Sergei Koussevitzky conducted The Boston Symphony Orchestra, way back. That is the highest praise, well deserved. Hope, aliv
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