The origins of tablets, collective intelligence and the metaphor of the end of the world.

Nowmov uses the "collective intelligence of the masses to watch the most popular videos and content on the Internet in real-time." Here I am in front of the screen waiting to be amazed. After three minutes, Nowmov's collective intelligence invades my neuronal activity.
An advertsing for Motorola presents the evolution of tablet. It starts with the Egyptian hieroglyphic tablet 3200 BC explaining that weight it makes it difficult for portability.



And here is the moment when the collective intelligence discovers in my memory, with a typical tangential move , the origins of tablet. Not the evolution , but the origins.

5300 BC Transylvania

TARTARIA TABLETS

The Tărtăria tablets are three tablets, known since the late 19th century excavation at the Neolithic site of Turdaş in Transylvania, Romania, by Zsófia Torma, which date to around 5300 BC.They bear incised symbols, the Vinča signs, that have been the subject of considerable controversy among archaeologists, some of whom claim that the symbols represent the earliest known form of writing in the world.
Two of the tablets are rectangular and the third is round. They are all small, the round one being only 6 cm (2½ in) across, and two—one round and one rectangular—have holes drilled through them.
As RevezNexus, a very good twitter friend , mentioned last night, Dracula was a happy man :)

Result: very portable



Nothing is new on Earth, it seems that we write the future with the DNA of the past. We don't have to exclude the fact that maybe thousands of years ago, on Earth, a very advanced civilization has disappeared during a catastrophic event. The survivors have succeded to create a new world. Maybe this is a scifi scenario, maybe not. I wrote months ago on my IO.1 blog The Missing Link : What if "The Road" continues with "Cave of Forgotten Dreams.", a post that is questioning the same dilema.

Now we we have the chance to create a new world without destroying the old one. We have the chance to learn from our mistakes and to open a new era for the whole humanity.

So I would advice all the tablets brands to create an entire documentary about the evolution and origins of tablet. It can be a wonderful recognition for the human innovation and also an inspiration for the new generation of collective intelligence .

The end of the world is close, prepare to be amazed of the new one...

Endless Column

Excerpt from : BRANCUSI's ATTEMPT TO INFINITY, American Insititute for Writing Research 2004

Another most significant opinion aboout on the "Endless Column" at the comparasion level appread in London, England, several year after sculptor's demise:

"The Endless Column is the only sculpture of the modern era that bears comparasion with the great monuments of Egypt, Greece and the Renaissance"
William Tucker, "The Hand That Change The Forms" in The Daily Telegraph, July 20, 1973

Such an accurate comparasion explains why Peggy Guggenheim offered several million dollars for the original Column (5 million, which at that time, was the equivalent amount of the annual budget of a big Romanian city as Bucharest ), but the Romanian Governement refused the offer.

A vison of the future - Where The Mind is Without Fear

Picture from The Fall, a film by Tarsem Singh

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments

by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the
dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening

thought and action--
Into that heaven of freedom,

my Father, let my country awake.

Rabindranath Tagore

This poem is from Gitanjali, lit. Offering of Songs, published in English in
1910.

A MEMORY - Untitled 10 (Hyperborea)

In Greek mythology the Hyperboreans were a mythical people who lived far to the north of Thrace. The Greeks thought that Boreas, the North Wind, lived in Thrace, and that therefore Hyperborea was an unspecified region in the northern lands that lay beyond Scythia. Their land, called Hyperborea or Hyperboria — "beyond the Boreas" — was perfect, with the sun shining twenty-four hours a day, which - if true - suggests a possible location within the Arctic Circle...


Dan Holdsworth - Untitled 10 (Hyperborea)
Contemporary Artists www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk

Never the Muse is absent
from their ways: lyres clash and flutes cry
and everywhere maiden choruses whirling.
Neither disease nor bitter old age is mixed
in their sacred blood; far from labor and battle they live.
- Pindar, Tenth Pythian Ode; translated by Richmond Lattimore.

Reaching such exotic lands is never easy; Pindar cautioned:
neither by ship nor on foot would you find
the marvellous road to the assembly of the Hyperboreans.


Suddenly this film, reminds me of Hyperborea....It is filmed in Sweden, somehow close to the Arctic Circle, but the music is Thracian....

autumn by the lake from Bart van der Gaag on Vimeo.

The ancient roots of celts in Eastern Europe

I believe that are so many untold stories about our past. I've been always fascinated by the the celtic culture and now I've discovered that the celts actually lived in Transylvania (the place from where I came) ...
And this obvious similarity between the celtic art and a mysterious neolithical culture found in my country will lead probably to new answers, new stories about our connections in time and space.

"The Cucuteni culture is a Neolithic/Chalcolithic civilization dated to 5400-2750 BC, found in the former soviet republic of Ukraine (where it is called Trypillian) and Romania.
Read more in my previous post http://10point7.blogspot.com/2009/01/electronic-tattoo-of-adams-grandsons.html
5400-2750 BC




The Celtic culture (or Celts) were a long-recognized cultural group of the Iron Age in western Europe, from about the 11th to the first century BC. The last bits of the Celts are known from Roman histories, while the earliest archaeological components are known as Hallstatt (1200 to 500 BC) and La Tene (500-200 AD) cultures"





Newgrange, one of three passage tombs in Bru na Boinne, was built over 5,000 years ago.


Source: http://archaeology.about.com/

"The Celts were an Indo - European population of warriors living in the northern half of Europe over a vast area stretching from Britain and Ireland to the Carpathians, at one given moment being even present in the Balkans.
In the 4th century BC, the Celts reached Central Europe. Their presence on the current Romanian territory was first reported in the second half of the 4th century BC when they exerted a domination up to the end of the 3rd century BC. By the end of the 4th century BC, they were reported to advance inside the Carpathians"

" Ancient authors mentioned the names of Celtic tribes that had settled not only on the current Romanian territory but also on the territory surrounding it.Confronting the information provided in the 1st century BC by Caesar, in his work “De bello gallico“ and in the second century AD by Ptolemeu in his “ Geography “, it seems that in the eastern and western Apuseni Mountains ( the western Carpathians ) the tribe of the Anartians had settled. The Scordscis were archeologically attested in the south, along the Danube. In the 4th century BC, the Celts followed the course of the Danube to the south, where they fought against the Macedonians, led by Alexander the Great and with his successor, Lisimah."

“The locality of Fintinele is particularly rich in Celtic vestiges. The best known cemetery is Dambul Popii, dug a quarter of a century ago. It is the second largest Celtic cemetery in Transylvania, counting by the number of tombs, after the cemetery in Piscolt, Satu Mare county. We are currently carrying out archaeological searches in the locality of Fintinele, at the Lagata cemetery, where 27 tombs have been identified and uncovered so far.. The searches are far from being over."

Source: Romanian Public Radio

And now after thousands of years, the celts are coming back in the wonderful land of northen Romania to discover the untold stories of the past.

Shaun Davey introduces Rita Connolly in the National Concert Hall Dublin in September 2009 with a taste of his new creation based on Romanian folklore. A glimpse on Romanian & Irish powerful musical performances.

" Water is the driving force of all nature."

Playlist is located at: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=AA9EF5C7994D0028

WATER
Produced by Saida Medvedeva

Water is a documentary film about how human intentions not only change the structure of water, but how our thoughts can alter our environment.

Three million copies of Water were sold in Europe in the first year of its release.

The film stars Masaru Emoto ("What the Bleep Do We Know") and several other scientists from around the world who have, in the last year, discovered new findings about how water truly has memory.

The movie won four 1st place awards in Europe:
» Best documentary Film of the year (TEFI 2006)
» Best camera work of TV documentary film (TEFI 2006)
» Best producer work of TV documentary film (TEFI 2006)
» Best popular Science film of 2006 (Laurel 2006)