Ubik

I remember when I first read his book on the jedi’s knight, when i was 13 in fact. I came some days ago back to Philip K Dick through a nice wandering within a library, and told myself “what the hell, the backcover sounds compelling” and I did enjoy reading this book: Ubik by Philip K Dick, written in the seventies, one standard perhaps, did not know it, my path crosses his again now.

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SF, and in this, pure SF, has this inner power to reveal the deepest fantasy we have in our lives of simple humans, so entering the mechanism of thoughts, rethought, and structure this architecture another way, in the full dimensions of our Freudian inside, space dimensions, time dimensions, and inner thought dimensions.

I wasn’t thrilled by the blockbuster from last year “Inception” from obvious reasons, too much for too little. In true scale from 1 to 10, I would rate it personally at 3, “The Cell” stays in front at the top 6. I did midly enjoy 10 years ago, or so, cannot remember exactly when, and that is the point where memories play its trick, happy to witness it everytime.

I leave you discovering it, if you haven’t read it yet. I did find it sometimes too complex, sometimes too simple, once the reframe done, definitely pleasant to lose yourself in various assumptions. And well, I did enjoy coming back to SF for one book, and it was a good one. With the same feeling I had reading some of Dan Simmons, especially carrion comfort series, one nice stop as well, the previously last book of pure SF I ve read.

NYSE - Never yawn and stand even, or sth around

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Stockmarket is nothing else than a game for some. I won't buy that it is a mirror per se of the economy to be figured as job creators, so many diffraction taking place in this case. NYSE Euronext coupling now even more cross-atlantic actions than ever before.

in 1999, I first entered the french stockmarket, the CAC 40 went around 6500-7000 points. Nowadays. we are worried about drop while we are around 3500 points. I am much more worried if stockmarkets were indeed reflection of the reality of the economy, to see that our economy didn't cover back its gaps in 10 years, and from the internet bubble.  

Change of valuation, change of index, change of financial vehicles? What I can believe, this world of trade exchange is bending over via the assymetry of information, so wouldn't be a surprise, unfortunately.   Take a look around, and we might notice quite an amount of opportunities away from this centerplace. So just a piece of the jigsaw of modern economy? definitely.
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Staying away and plugging on

Building on last part of previous message, my deep inside went to hang itself, going off the hook of social media, this book with no face, I am currently focusing on some deep rooted motivations that keeps me going, on my road, road that might not cross as often this digital world.

I am using this unemployment time to review some expansion of the ebooks market to other spheres, looking to prototype these services into reality, and managing how it goes. All is part of learning and staying utterly active and in line with the society.

Question: How to manage soft/hardware, maintenance, volumes upload and upissues for a resilient distribution system in the professional sphere, and one sphere especially in mind? I do find here ebook reader more resilient than pad and tablets, even if not offering the whole extent of IT services, the question is to decide what is nice to have, what is a must have.

Global question: How to attract us back to reading? real, enjoyable, reading?

The why is simple, it is the explanation on how to save costs providing a suitable up to date learning system and as a 30 year old guy, I am still amazed to witness I might be considered a heavy reader, while only reading a book possybly every week since 10 years, and that is worrying me, because I do not consider I am a heavy reader, I consider myself just as a reading enthusiast, a segment of the population shrinking here and there (see reports from INSEE if you so wish, got it if not). And well, That s my oldest longest hobby, reading is the way I found to relax and relieve stress, not a concurrent activity to anything I can do, a complement.

Alternatively, I am eager for anything you would like to share and currently building up the business plan and prototyping steps. Do not hesitate to contact me on waterprod@gmail.com if you wish more info.

“The best crowd for a magician is a drunk audience”

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“The best crowd for a magician is a drunk audience” It is my references, coming from everywhere, and this time coming from the show “how I met your mother”

I am here focusing on money in our society, capitalistic only in the sense of money defining the main interactions.

Money is the spirit we are drunk from since nearly three centuries. Since this time, it galloped at such a rate, that the tissue of the society couldn’t drain all these liquidity into its vein. It comes to such extent that money defines our status, our freedom: who has control over money, in any organization, has the final word. It does dictate relationship between one another.

Let’s get to the point: Money has built itself an illusion in our mind. Debt can be defined as the main fuel cells consumed by the engine of money creation. To such extent that it does show up even more imbalances between financial sectors, and other sectors where value added via human resources, even if I find this term oddly inaccurate, is used.

You can speak of exchange rate, shares prices, and even going further than this smoke screen of money: stock split, equity swaps, options in general, short selling, spread. Only to say these are spell of this magic wand we lost control of, not all of us, given the one using it are controlling the flow. Careful with the term, the one managing it, not the ones being masters upon it.

Money can look to control me, I am looking to escape this frame and regain power on it: A tool, a simple tool that is used to simplify our way to make transactions and that would need some more human touch, real human. I am not choosing to forget and escape from this burden, simply because doing this wouldn’t give anything than a short term solution.

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Ebooks, a revolution? an evolution

Oddly enough, I am starting with a well known expression :) on a subject we all spoke and discussed a lot, well, another layer: "un mille-feuilles, c'est tellement bon"

It is a start, let see where that is going:

Like many events in life, we can choose to focus on the negative points, the one we can resent straight the effect, or rebalancing it with the non-obvious positive effects. Rather than stopping a discussion, it is building up further. I did gather many comments on both sides from informal discussions all around, and went to one conclusion, a dynamic one.

I did see e-books from a tweaked eye, as I loved very much the feeling of turning pages after pages, drawing my notes on it, and keeping each volume safe. I do agree and see ebooks as a positive future. A revolution? Just an evolution. And further if it does bring more people to read, building up services around ebooks

I do view it as a useful interaction with the e-sphere:

- through one click to wiktionary for the words I don’t bother to have a look at while reading,

-through links to news and blogs, or music,

-deciphering these odd footnotes via an active hyperlink.

Too much information might lose some, it is an education. So a presentation on all that, developing a constructive view of this business, through my eyes, and hopefully others.

Link to the presentation:

Augmented Books

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