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I wrote a little something on the theme of “Setting up your Online Footprint”. The article was featured in the 5th issue of Beyond the Pond - the Alumni Magazine of Jacobs University. Feel free to explore it and drop me a line if you liked it or not, ok?
It all starts with a dream. Even the Web started with one. Here’s how Tim Berners Lee described his dream of the World Wide Web:
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“I have a dream for the Web…and it has two parts.
In the first part, the Web becomes a much more powerful means for collaboration between people. I have always imagined the information space as something to which everyone has immediate and intuitive access, and not just to browse, but to create. The initial WorldWideWeb program opened with an almost blank page, ready for the jottings of the user. Robert Cailliau and I had a great time with it, not because we were looking at a lot of stuff, but because we were writing and sharing our ideas. Furthermore, the dream of people-to-people communication thorough shared knowledge must be possible for groups of all sizes, interacting electronically with as much ease as they do now in person.
In the second part of the dream, collaborations extend to computers. Machines become capable of analyzing all the data on the Web —the content,links, and transactions between people and computers. A “Semantic Web,” which should make this possible has yet to emerge, but when it does, the day-to-day mechanisms of trade, bureaucracy, and our daily lives will be handled by machines talking to machines, leaving humans to proivide the inspiration and intuition.”[1]
[1] Berners-Lee, Tim. Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web. Harper Paperbacks, 2000.
What you see in the image below is a timeline of the universe, from the big bang to the present. In order to get a sense of how big this is, imagine that the lines around the cylinder are about a bilion years apart. As you can see the diameter of the cylinder is increasing. This increase represents the expansion of the universe.
Somewhere deep in that huge universal silence, people say that something should, ought, must or has to be done in a certain way. Hilarious isn’t it? Enjoy your choices my friend.
I employ numbers for various purposes and I guess you also do. I am taking 25 for a ride today. I want this number to tell a story for me. I promise it’s very short. Here I go: Today, I am 25 years old! Done.
Twenty Five. Copyright Octav Druta
I’m no different than bacteria or any other organism in this Universe. We all struggle to be different and that makes us all the same. Still, there are some things that I want to mention:
I finally thank myself for being here and now, grateful for the freedom to work on my dreams.
I often hear the expression: “X shaped my Y” (i.e: Networking shaped my relationship with people, Exercising shaped my body, etc). I use it myself quite often. In fact, I’ll use it right here. Here I go: “Movies shaped my culture”.
The picture above represents a selection of the movie genres that I prefer. How did I get to it? Well, jinni.com knows most of the movies that I’ve seen by now and generated this nice movie genre cloud for me.
“Jinni is a Taste Engine. We look at film through the lens of what makes you love or hate anything you watch. With a Taste Engine, you don’t search by what you’re looking for, you search by what you like. And recommendations are based on analyzing your preferences, not statistics.”[1]
Please leave a reply in the comments section below. I’m sincerely curious to know your answers to the following questions:
In Romania there’s this popular saying: “Tell me who you befriend so that I can tell you who you are”. You might have heard this saying in various forms in your home country.
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Is my behavior influenced by my friends? I did some empirical observations on Facebook, my primary social network.
I often immerse myself in the stream of items (photos, videos, links, etc.) shared by my friends on Facebook. Depending on what they share, my mind wanders and creates stories about my friends, automatically tagging them: Cool guys, Business guys, Crazy guys, Party animals, Geeks, Lovers, etc. Based on those classifications, my intentions and my emotional state, I comment and like their shared items. It’s obvious, my actions depend on what my friends share and how my mind classifies my friends.
Clive Thompson wrote a comprehensive article about this topic in the New York Times. If you read Clive’s “Are Your Friends Making You Fat” you’ll find out that:
What we are is more than what we think we are. The fact that we’re able to explore the aspects that affect our behavior is a great opportunity to design ourselves at new levels of consciousness.
Yes, I am crazy. I want to be able to increase or decrease the resolution of time and I found one way of doing it. I had this thought while realizing that my perception of time varies when I experience similar events.
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I usually feel that time passes slowly when I’m bored. On the other hand, time flies when I am doing exciting stuff. I bet that you felt the same many times.
When I dreamt of being able to modify my perception of time, I was thinking about control. It seems that wearing a pair of special glasses would do it. A new study shows that wearing prismatic glasses that adjust your vision 10 degrees to the left will “slow down” the passage of time. A similar adjustment of 10 degrees but to the right will “speed up” the passage of time.
Whenever you have a crazy thought, write it down, share it, talk about it. Sometimes, only the fact that you brought it into your awareness will reveal a lot to you.
“One must keep chasing one’s dreams” - Soichiro Honda
One of Michael Jackson’s greatest dreams as formulated by himself: “Give to the world what I was lucky to receive: the ecstasy of divine union through my music and my dance.”
“No message could have been any clearer if you wanna make the world a better place”.
Whether you participated or just tuned into the buzz around Madonna’s eighth worldwide concert tour: Sticky & Sweet, I want to share a little something with you. Whether you’re aware or not, you are participating in one of Madonna’s greatest dreams. She declared it a good while ago and it goes like this: “I won’t be happy till I’m as famous as God”.
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Engaged in Madonna’s dream you’re probably listening to her songs, criticizing, reading news about her, going to her concerts, sharing information online, etc. A dream you dream alone is just a dream. Madonna did a fantastic job in engaging the world in her dream of “becoming as famous as God” and that gives her the power to transform the dream into a reality shared by hundreds of millions of fans worldwide.
I sincerely don’t know if she’ll ever become as famous as God. What I do know is that by declaring this dream and engaging the world in it, she achieved extraordinary results: she created her own religion.
Madonna herself invited the world to “Never forget to dream”. What religion are you working on? How many followers did you engage in activities that generate the reality of your dream?
