Exploring scaling dignity— reflections from EPIC Conference 2020
For the past couple of days, I’ve been attending the EPIC conference. Completely online (of course). In three different timezones. EPIC is “a global community advancing the…
Autonomy, autonomous & automated: a short examination of how these words are applied to cyber-physical systems
Each fortnight of Semester 2 of the 3A Institute Master of Applied Cybernetics, we are exploring a component of the 3As (Autonomy, Assurance, Agency) and 3Is (Intent,…
Boundaries and Intent: critical to definitions of success
We’re back at it as part of Semester 2 of the Master of Applied Cybernetics 3A Institute. The Build course from last semester continues and our…
The Macy conferences: a window into the genesis of cybernetics
After spending the semester exploring the building blocks of cyber-physical systems (context, taking things apart, data, Machine Learning and Algorithms, and Systems Mapping), the final…
Mapping my understanding of systems mapping [verb] and systems maps [noun]
For probably the first time in the course since its start, the focus for a fortnight was on something I had some experience in before…
Fatal error: shebang not defined. (And if there’s such a thing as a shebang, what’s a hebang?)
I remember landing in Paris on the first days of my exchange semester more than a decade ago. I was excited and daunted. Unbeknownst to…
What gets measured, gets done(?)
It’s an old saying: what gets measured, gets done. It’s something I’ve heard in so many contexts – from the former Director General of the World…
Taking things apart – to what end?
The theme for Fortnight #2 of 3AI’s Master of Applied Cybernetics’ Question is ‘taking things apart’. How do you ‘take things apart’ without falling into reductionist traps of thinking?
Every technology has history. Whose history is it anyways?
Week 1 of the Master of Applied Cybernetics at ANU’s 3A Institute and we are immersed in a multitude of perspectives that certainly leaves more questions than answers.
Where do you start when studying applied cybernetics?
One (orientation) week in to my experience as part of the second-ever Master of Applied Cybernetics cohort at the Australian National University’s 3A Institute (3AI), and one thing is already clear: the contextual foundation of this course stems far beyond this century or last and far wider than any one culture.