“It’s difficult to make predictions, especially about the future”*…

It’s that time of year: predictions and forecasts and outlooks for 2026 on just about everything are everywhere. Scott Belsky‘s list is eminetly worth a read…

From talent arbitrage and “proof of craft” to hardware moats, ambient listening, homegrown software, and the end of waste – what should we expect to see in the coming year? What are the implications?…

“12 Outlooks for the Future: 2026+”

For a bracing list of “black swan” possibliities in the new year, see “15 Scenarios That Could Stun the World in 2026.”

But in the interest of starting this year on as positive a note as possible: “1,084 Reasons the World Isn’t Falling Apart.”

* an axiom attributed to Niels Bohr and Yogi Berra, among others

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As we contemplate what’s coming, we might recall that it was on this date in 1902 that Andrew Carnegie filed the incorporation papers for what he called the Carnegie Institution of Washington– which we now know as Carnegie Science. The first of 20 not-for-profit institutions he founded (in addition to his other philanthropy, e.g., funding over 3,000 public libraries), Carnegie Science conducts fundamental research both directly and in collaboration with other organizations (mostly research universities). In its 120+ year history, it has contributed scores of foundational discoveries– e.g., the expanding universe, the existence of dark matter, transposons (“jumping genes”)– across multiple scientific disciplines. Its principals have won multiple Nobel Prizes (and myriad other awards) and have contributed to scientific and technical policy (e.g., Carnegie President Vannevar Bush) and to scientific education.

Getting some Bell, Book & Candle vibes on #VannevarBush 's take on #stenography in 1945 lol

"The other element is found in the stenotype, that somewhat disconcerting device encountered usually at public meetings. A girl strokes its keys languidly & looks about the room & sometimes at the speaker with a disquieting gaze. From it emerges a typed strip... Later this strip is retyped into ordinary language, for in its nascent form it is intelligible only to the initiated."
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/

Our ineptitude in getting at the record is largely caused by the artificiality of systems of indexing.
-- Vannevar Bush

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #VannevarBush #Knowledge

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Vegetables #Market

The forgotten 80-year-old machine that shaped the internet – and could help us survive AI

https://theconversation.com/the-forgotten-80-year-old-machine-that-shaped-the-internet-and-could-help-us-survive-ai-260839

#TheConversation #Memex #VannevarBush #WWW #Internet #AI

Our ineptitude in getting at the record is largely caused by the artificiality of systems of indexing.
-- Vannevar Bush

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #VannevarBush #Knowledge

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology