Category Archives: Featured Essays
Social consciousness, software, and our future society
Note: a newer version is available. Note: Based on my review of 2008 posts, I added more posts, and some introduction for the parts and chapters. I am thinking of publishing this as a book. I haven’t thought a good … Continue reading
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Computer Science is Life Science
Computer Science (CS) is not a science of computers. CS is a science of life. It is a bridge to connect the physical science with human science. Here I take the word life as what is meant by C.A. (Christopher … Continue reading
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Play
Play When the world is still, the whole world is just one. When it starts moving, forces are applied to its body and split out many small parts. Under the forces, the small part has to make itself stronger correspondingly … Continue reading
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Peace: What is peace? How do we build peace in our world?
We human beings, like everything else, are just like simple objects, which have both inside and outside. Deep inside of us is an inner core. On our outside, we have an outer layer that is in touch with the outside … Continue reading
Build a better playground
Where are we going? How do we understand human history? How do we understand our current trend, especially changes brought out by software and web? There are a lot of economic theories. There are a lot of ideologies, religions based … Continue reading
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the Python Principle is the Principle of Playing
The Python Principle is a principle of playing. Python makes it easy to play with programming. Recently when I was refactoring my software project, I realized I want to make it easy to play, the same as Python did. So … Continue reading
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Space and Learning
This is a talk I gave in a natural learning group gathering. Most of the stuff in the talk can be found in my other blogs. Here I just put them together under the umbrella of space. Here I want … Continue reading
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Some words to help you focus before your sitting meditation
Note: Not necessarily you need these words for your meditation. It is just if you find it difficult to concentrate see if this can help you. As you have made your decision to come to sit here for these 20 … Continue reading
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Reflection on My Schooling
Note: this is a paragraph I just added to my article: the Art of My Life. (http://freestone.wordpress.com/2007/05/08/the-art-of-my-life/). I think it might be good to separate it out as a single article as well. As I reflect on my schooling experience, … Continue reading
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The Art of My Life
I am going to talk about the art of my life and how I came to it. It is going to be a long article since it spans my whole life. I cut many things off, but it is still … Continue reading
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Web2.0 is grassroots
This article just serves as an introduction to web2.0 for the grassroots people. So this article is by no means academic. I will try to avoid tech terms. Web2.0 is grassroots in the sense that if you look at web2.0 … Continue reading
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Against Compulsory Schooling: from mass production to empowering individual professionals
Modern compulsory schooling is a product of mass production. It is to produce laborers for the mass production. When people learned to unleashing the power from the coal and later oil, we entered a new era of human history, the … Continue reading
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Web Brain
Here I want to talk a little bit about Web Brain, which will lead the next generation of WWW. Internet and WWW is all about global participation and cooperation. It provides a mechanism for people around the world to participate, … Continue reading
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Life stories on a greyhound bus
I don’t know who you are. But I know you will be interested in the stories I am going to share with you. And I know you have the same beautiful stories you can share with others. Because we are … Continue reading
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