Inventing the Future

We are still the masters of our fate. Rational thinking, even assisted by any conceivable electronic computers, cannot predict the future. All it can do is to map out the probability space as it appears at the present and which will be different tomorrow when one of the infinity of possible states will have materialized. Technological and social inventions are broadening this probability space all the time; it is now incomparably larger than it was before the industrial revolution—for good or for evil.

The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented. It was man’s ability to invent which has made human society what it is. The mental processes of inventions are still mysterious. They are rational but not logical, that is to say, not deductive.

Dennis Gabor, 1963

Flamarabenco

Numbers

There is no biggest number. 

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Oysa bir bardak su yetiyordu saçlarını ıslatmaya
Bir dilim ekmeğin bir iki zeytinin başınaydı doymamız
Seni bir kere öpsem ikinin hatırı kalıyordu
İki kere öpeyim desem üçün boynu bükük
Yüzünün bitip vücudunun başladığı yerde
Memelerin vardı memelerin kahramandı sonra 
Sonrası iyilik güzellik.



Cemal Surayya - Ask

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Smile

The worst things got, in fact, the broader her smile became. I loved her smile. It smoothed me, encouraged me. "It'll be alright", her smile told me. "Just hang in there, and everything will turn out okay"

"South of the Border, West of the Sun", Haruki Marukami

Sunny Road