Friday, October 3, 2014

Indra's (Ether)Net

I'm on the internet. I think folks are still figuring out what that means, me included. I have a calling to manage information and support the communities that form around information, and digitized info in particular. Sometimes I really wish I didn't but I'm here and not a physical therapist, I guess! I love the way the internet transcends geography. I just got pinged via the hangout by another distance aspirant who's up early (lol, and I'm up late!) talking about how amazing the moon is tonight and wishing everyone blissful awe. 

The ether, the internet, is new space and it's changing and getting better (and worse) ridiculously quickly as we explore its limits against our own. Perhaps someday there will be a priest/ess of Indra's (Ether) Net, and... Ok, I have Just Been Informed that I must tell you this is totally half baked  in order to actually share. So. This is totally half baked, and I have a lot of research to follow up on and deeply consider before proposing anything of the sort in a for reals sort of way, so totally hypothetically consider pretty much all of this. Also huge whoa, I see Indra's Net also tied to weaving, much like Athena, and not only have she and I been chatting about strategy and wisdom re work and "civilization" but weaving cards were some of the founding technology used in computers and thus she is connected via weaving to computer-related things and the resulting online communities as well. Again before iPad totally glitches out, covering my bases, totally half baked idea and I don't even really know quite what that means yet, but in the moment it is sort of an intense serendipitous connection to have found. 

So... That happened.

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