Hi M,

Good class this morning in video conferencing. Here's the syllabus for this course -
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lO6tsS87AjQUXLXmYJGgGzzbWzXMvPCUIyynQ381b3A/edit?usp=sharing - and it's accessible here -
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html. It's a fun course to teach.

Do you recall seeing this introduction of Apple MacIntosh computer?
"Apple 1984 Super Bowl Commercial Introducing Macintosh Computer"

Apple 1984 Super Bowl Commercial Introducing Macintosh Computer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axSnW-ygU5g
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_(advertisement)

I updated this developing syllabus with this far-reaching Apple piece (re Apple vs IBM, Apple vs the clones, Personal computers vs TV, and much more) - and the Wikipedia article is interesting too.

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Have you ever visited the Blaschkas' glass flowers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_and_Rudolf_Blaschka) in the Harvard Museum of Natural History? ...
https://hmnh.harvard.edu/glass-flowers and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_Flowers. They were a father and son who emigrated to the US from Dresden, Germany, in the late 1800s, and who made amazingly precise biological specimens of flowers and species out of glass - and in huge number too.

Was wondering about these glass flowers -
https://twitter.com/HarvardMuseums/status/917744110244679680 - and how best to add them to a realistic virtual earth / museums?

With World Univs' plans for museums in all ~200 countries' 7,099 living languages, I'm curious how we could add this collection to a realistic virtual earth (think Google Streetview/Maps/Earth/Brain with TIME SLIDER) and for designing and repair purposes too- 3D printing too even. I'd guess these flowers have all been digitized by Harvard already - but not in something like Google Streetview for realistic virtual museums online.

Music-making for SCD was fun last night ... just got a gig offer again in Marin in January around Robbie Burns' night which I've played for the past 2 years - via a Scot there named Frederick Dargie Hamilton, originally from Glasgow, and who's a great lad.

What are you up to ?

L,
Scott

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Hi M,

... from Stanford. Just heard a great talk ...  at Stanford Law by Tim
Edgar (who went to Dartmouth and Harvard Law, and is relatedly smart, which I enjoy) on "Beyond Snowden"


... interesting ... addressing questions of privacy as they unfold and as the US laws and culture about this change too ... and possibly re WUaS and all 7.5 billion people and even a CryptoCurrency with the Block Chain for health care data too, for example ... so interesting especially re WUaS. He's a fellow now at Brown University in the Watson Institute ...

Curious whether my blog posts themselves will eventually become like Blaschka flowers/species ... somehow ... but perhaps alive in multimedia ... so ...

Hoping further re music making for learning via video ... to perhaps get into a posting my piping once a week to my blog  ... as a beginning re these lessons and this learning process... and re Lorne's CoP feed back ... although I like the social interaction of a real time video conference lesson as well. ... and re more alive-ness in my blog ... beyond text and images ...

In my class this morning, had a good course conversation with T in Florida in real time video ... and am curious if this could echo ways - in a social sense - of possibly connecting ...  ... but better face-to-face in person if possible ... given queues ...

L,
Scott


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Hi Linda (and friends),