PRAGUE WINTER by (madeleine albright!) as read by (me!), sandra, tvgp
you know the question...'if you could have anyone over for dinner, alive or dead.. who would you invite?'***
so happy, and slightly unnerved, to be reading this again. why unnerved? -to read page 47, and re-realize that it all served as prelude to hitler..
and this time around, I'm seeing what I fear are patterns... not isolated experiences to this country and time, but.. pattern.
and they happen both ways.. patterns which lead to democracy/success for the masses; and patterns which lead to dictatorships/evil empires..
on the whole however, I do believe I would have liked this Masaryk fellow...
***
entirely different book: I share his vision, e.o. Wilson.. and especially working at alden lane, I wish, I imagine what it might be like to contribute to having a data base which contains information on every. single. living. thing:
how my grandchildren might be able to just take a picture of a plant, or flower, or insect.. and
a match is found, quick as a calculator can give the answer to a math problem, and you are presented with the scientific, and the common name.. and some details..
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speaking of calculators: this for the a.i. team: I noticed, with my own calculator, -that sometimes, with age/use, the numbers would not be entirely visible..
like, the top of a 7 might not display properly, so that it could look instead like a 1
but while the display might be faulty; the answer itself has never, -not once; been wrong.
-this creates an opportunity for a playful experiment: to create a calculator that gives the wrong answers; -sometimes. 12+12 =
but not always.
posted by SHE @ 10:29 AM
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