THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“Today’s environment is beginning to threaten today’s organizations, finding them seriously deficient in their nervous system design… The degree of coordination, perception, rational adaptation, etc., which will appear in the next generation of human organizations will drive our present organizational forms, with their clumsy nervous systems, into extinction.”

— Douglas Engelbart

BIRTHDAYS:

1505 Thomas Tallis, English composer. One of the most important and influential English composers of the High Renaissance period. If ye love me, and Spem in alium, and Lamentations of Jeremiah II, and Te Lucis Ante Terminum

1697 Johann Joachim Quantz, German royal flautist and composer. Flute Concerto in G Major QV 5:174

1909 Saul David Alinsky, influential American community organizer, political theorist, and activist. Born in Chicago to Russian-Jewish immigrant parents, he grew up in a working-class environment and became widely regarded as a foundational figure in modern community organizing.

1925 Douglas Engelbart, American engineer and inventor widely regarded as one of the most influential pioneers in modern computing. Often called the “father of the computer mouse,” his visionary work laid foundational elements for interactive computing, graphical user interfaces, hypertext, and collaborative online systems—many of which we now take for granted in everyday technology.

1941 Gregory Benford, American author and scientist.

MISCELLANEOUS:

ARE WE MOVING TOWARD A TYPE II KARDASHEV CIVILIZATION? SpaceX Applies to FCC for 1 Million AI Satellites in Space

REMINDER:

In the future, before locking things down again (including free speech and the freedom to assemble), the authorities might want to reacquaint themselves with the following:

Nuremberg Code

Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza

Great Barrington declaration