Douglass Carmichael's Web Site   minor updates March 16, 2004

Y2k2 year 2002 archive of past issues y2k archives 1998-2001 To subscribe autoshare@bigmindmedia.com with message body: "subscribe youremailaddress y2kweek " To unsubscribe autoshare@bigmindmedia.com with message body: "unsubscribe youremailaddress y2kweek " see also referenced papers with comments. 2002 date issued title and intro to issue Comment # 7 Dec 2 The Push to war   # 6 August 23 Who will do what and when will they do it 2002 and new scenarios follow up to original y2k paper with this title. #5 June 11 Alternatives to Homeland Security?   #4 April 20 Pace of events, end of empire framework, Herman Melville   #3 March 3 Overview of the current situation, and paper by Ralph Peters, "Stability, America's Enemy"   #2   Feb 3 Rationality, science and human nature, 3 thoughts, Spengler and Conrad. The three thoughts cover 1. Freedom and violence, money and the west 2. The psychology of markets: consumerism as life affirming given no alternative. 3. Science and the missing human nature: ethics   #1   Jan 3 REFLECTIONS: Overview of what we can learn from Y2K two years ago to understand technology and society now. I've spent the last two years fairly quietly, trying to comprehend what Y2K was about, and reading history to fill in my own glaring gaps. Time to put it together. The idea here is to create openness about difficult issues of technology and society. Responses by email are welcome. I'll keep tying the larger issues to weekly events in an attempt to weave some meaningful relevance. Y2K took us to an edge and opened up the vulnerabilities of our systems for a good peek. September 11 has done the same. Y2K still seems to me relevant and September 11 provided another example of a similar phenomena. We can learn from these, and it's important to try to do so. Basically the issue is, how (or can, and if so when) society responds intelligently to complexity, as well as to opportunities and crisis, to human nature and culture, to delight and awe and vulnerability. Full issue