Notations From the Grid: On A "Vision" That Can be Prevented

On our daily "Prowl" of the "Grid", we saw this:

This @NASA visualization captures our projected climate future — up to 2099 http://t.co/lw46Q33XDX #ScienceSunday
— Climate Reality (@ClimateReality) March 2, 2015

It is a scary prospect and a vision that we believe does not need to be realized if we are smart and engaging now.   The question we have to ask is this:  Are we?  Can we? 

A "V-Thought 4 the Week" :-)

Enough Said...

Wishing all a fabulous Week..and one has to be ever so grateful!! :-)

Notations From the Grid On the Eve of a New Month Direct From the International Space Station

March has arrived. We wanted to "break the ice" here in the "Visions" channel to share this milestone direct from the International Space Station as the progress of Science continues and the possiblities are limitless...Onward!!!:

After @AstroTerry's 3rd #spacewalk he commemorated 50 years of spacewalking. Listen here.. http://t.co/A9IRfKsgZz pic.twitter.com/BepsjvtDkJ

— Intl. Space Station (@Space_Station) March 1, 2015

A Thought 4 the Week-End: Living Rich

As We Go Dark @ #Outsiders: On Dark Days, Lira & Remembering Mr. Spock

It has been another tragic day as a Bangladeshi American Blogger, Avijit Roy,  and his wife were violently attacked in Bangladesh.  He was hacked to death with meat cleavers.    His wife is in serious condition.   This is as we were witness to the horrific acts by Dayesh in having destroyed priceless artifacts over the past 24 hours.   

We here at #Outsiders were not aware of his work directly until we reviewed the morning reports as we geared up to be "Dark" planning for March throughout the Outsider Network.  We join the comments by the CEO of Index on Censorship in strongly condemning this henious act.     This is as gear up for March in #Outsiders with the Israeli Prime Minister's Speech and the opposition avalanche that continues to build hour by hour,  the latest on the US Political Scene--including some of the more bizarre deliberations in Congress.   Conservatives are having their first major meeting that showcases a "beauty contest" of aspirants to the Presidency--including a declaration of cultural fascism by Brett Bozell.   

As we go "dark" we wanted to share this "musical interlude" from Lira that underscores a hope we have and what drives us to develop #outsiders:

It is not easy to live up to smile as we see a World that is engulfed--but Gandhi Ji reminded us all that we must be the change we want to see in our World as we hope to live up to Natalie Goldberg's admonition to "Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go..."

As we finished this final column, we got word that Leonard Nimoy  "Mr Spock" has passed away.    His admonition to us all to "Live Long and Prosper".  In his honor, we remember him:

An #Outsider Newsflash: The FCC Speaks -)

The FCC has spoken and Net Neutrality has prevailed: 

FCC votes in favor of regulating the Internet like a public utility

http://cir.ca/s/YTZ

The battle is not over though--but we here @ #Outsiders welcome this development and were happy to add our voice to +Google+'s powerful voice to insure net neutrality with this simple yet profound message for all: 

On The Tech Front: On Net Neutrailty & AI (An #Outsiders Newsflash)

We here @ #Outsiders have been continuing to assess the state of the Net Neutrality debate.     The Federal Communications Commission is slated to deliberate this on Thursday.    We will have updates on it once we get an assessment of it and the road map ahead.    What is clear is that there are profound forces opposing the proposals by the FCC Chairman.   We hope all will get a sense of the background through this courtesy of the daily infographics:



Artificial Intelligence (AI)  has also made the news.    The Google Team has worked to evolve AI to such a degree to be able to learn and play games from the 80's better than humans.     We will be assessing this over the course of the ensuing weeks.   

Exciting Times....

Notations From the Grid: On Technologies to Change The World (An #Outsider Newsflash)

In our daily assessment on the latest from the Grid, we wanted to share this which we view as pivotal in line with our Mission here @ "Visions" to showcase and deliberate on developments that help change the World--we will be commenting on it over the ensuing weeks and months:

51 breakthrough technologies to defeat poverty and change the world: http://t.co/3mmuXNw3rg by @btschiller pic.twitter.com/qKgLeQdF7l
— Co.Exist (@FastCoExist) February 21, 2015

Notations From the Grid: An #Outsider newsflash On the latest from the World Health Organization

This is an example of creating a "Vision of the Possible" which we hope to report & comment on over the ensuing weeks and months:

.@WHO's #UseOnce campaign is promoting single-use syringes. http://t.co/6nnPXmOKbj pic.twitter.com/heoLwBHdtG
— The Stream (@AJStream) February 23, 2015

On the "Prowl" 4 the Week-End: 10 Apps Changing Healthcare

One of the missions of the #Visions Channel here in #Outsiders is to assess up and coming ideas & technologies.  This interesting compliation of current Health Apps,courtesy of HP Matters, is quite an eye opener about how such appls are at the forefront of change:

10 Apps Changing Healthcare – Smartphone Innovations in the Industry | HP

Notations From the Grid For the Week-End: Going Beyond the Standard Narrative

Post by The Daily "Outsider".

Thought 4 the Week (II) & a Musical Interlude: From the Grid

Such Thoughts are to be taken to heart as we here @ #Outsiders continue this "labor of love" as we hope all enjoy this & a "Musical" interlude we've selected for all to enjoy: 

Wherever you go, go with all your heart. ~ Confucius
— FinestQuotes (@toinspire) February 19, 2015

Onward....

Thought 4 the Week

Great #inspirationalquote from the @Simple_Truths Sunrise Inspiration app: http://t.co/hlQOIXVEbJ pic.twitter.com/ukzG5x8kp8
— Mike Pouraryan (@mikepouraryan) February 18, 2015

View of the Week: On Life & The Ultimate Achieving of the Art of the Possible

As a new week dawns here in #Outsiders,  This clip courtesy of the team @ +Give More was quite perceptive about coming together and rising about it all--one of the essential messages of creating the Art of the Possible:

The Eloquence speaks for itself.

Notations From the Grid : On the Art of the Possible

For this edition of "Notations", we decided to share a number of key interesting tweets from Google's Eric Schmidt.    This one was so ever eloquent in how it is so simple yet so profound about the "Art of the possible" being realized as we strive to create the "Vision of the Possible": 

Wow: paramedics use Google Translate to converse with a Swahili-speaking woman as they deliver her baby...in Ireland. http://t.co/IoZ9ePWTwh
— Eric Schmidt (@ericschmidt) February 10, 2015

This one from Eric Schmidt underscores the simple yet profound fact to never "settle" and always be striving and changing:

"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man" -- Heraclitus (greek philosopher, 544BC)
— Eric Schmidt (@ericschmidt) February 4, 2015

Notations From the Grid: What May Happen To Our World...

While assessing the latest from +TakePart , we ran across this which depicts what will happen to Los Angeles in the event of a Glacier meltdown:


Los Angeles. (Map: Courtesy Spatialities.com)
Via: TakePart.com



The challenge for the World is to figure out how to NOT make this possible.  This is as the United States Congress continues its' obsession with a pipeline and does not seem to accept  basic science:

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Oh how we will all miss Jon Stewart....

View of the Week: 'A Message to Garcia' | BeLikeRowan.com

This is courtesy of the team @ Give More.Com--Some poignant messages which we here @ #Outsiders hope all enjoy:  'A Message to Garcia' | BeLikeRowan.com

Notations For the Week-End: On #Iran & Its' Beauty & Majesty

For this edition, we here @ #Outsiders decided to feature a beautiful image from the French-Iranian Photographer Isabelle Esraghi which captured the major river that runs through Iran's second largest City as it went dry fro the longest time:    

once Upon a time, there was river in #Isfahan #bringbackourzayanderud pic.twitter.com/Y8Op7OnOuz
— isabelle eshraghi (@isaregards) August 30, 2014

Onward.....

Thought 4 the Week

“You build on failure.
You use it as a stepping stone.
Close the door on the past.
You don’t try to forget the mistakes,
but you don’t dwell on it.
You don’t let it have any of your energy,
or any of your time,
or any of your space.”
~ Johnny Cash

Notations From the Grid: #FCC throws down the gauntlet On Net Neutrality

The battle over net neutrality takes on a new dimension as the FCC came out and in essence adopted President Obama's Stance to reclassify the internet as a "Utility":

Post by The Daily "Outsider".

We here @ #outsiders joined the public comment period and are very pleased to assess the development as the FCC will be leveraging its' power under Title II to be able to do this.   We will continue to assess this as the FCC begins the implementation phase.