As Easy As Alphabet? Google Doodles The Medium = The Message

Get A Clue > it's the 106th Birthday of Marshall McLuhan today. Who was he? ...and how did Google re-invent itself as "Alphabet"??????

The Google doodle depicts the progress of humanity through the four ages that Professor McLuhan saw. That began with us sitting around a fire in the Acoustic Age, and we progressed through the Written Age, the age of Mass Production, and into the Global Village or Electronic Age that we live in now.

Marshall McLuhan

Canadian professor

Herbert Marshall McLuhan was a Canadian professor, philosopher, and public intellectual. His work is one of the cornerstones of the study of media theory, as well as having practical applications in the advertising and television industries. Wikipedia 

Who was is Marshall McLuhan?

The man who predicted the internet had a stark warning for how it might be used

By Andrew Griffin The Independent | 2017-07-21T14:51:03+01:00

"Marshall McLuhan is being celebrated by a Google doodle, which claims him as the man who predicted the internet and the impact it would have. But he was also the man who foresaw the many dangers that it now poses to us.
As he predicted the internet, he pointed to the tremendous, transformative effects that it could have – and that it would go on to have, throughout culture. He described it as a "cool" technology, meaning that unlike the hot technology of print it would encourage interactivity and participation, allowing anyone to contribute.
That would have the effect of creating a "global village" – one of many catchy, influential phrases that he coined – one which could transform the way that people understand and interact with each other in the most profound ways.
And Professor McLuhan didn't only seem to predict the internet in broad, philosophical terms. At times he seems to describe the exact mechanisms of how it works now.
"The next medium, whatever it is – it may be the extension of consciousness – will include television as its content, not as its environment," he wrote in 1962. "A computer as a research and communication instrument could enhance retrieval, obsolesce mass library organisation, retrieve the individual's encyclopedic function and flip it into a private line to speedily tailored data of a saleable kind."
What Professor McLuhan is talking about sounds a lot like the internet, but his predictions actually came decades before the web arrived. The internet itself has proven Professor McLuhan more right than he might ever have imagined, allowing him to emerge from the occasional mockery to which he has been subjected.
But just as he is praised for his predictions of the transformative power of the internet, he should be heeded in his terrifying warnings about what it could be used for. Professor McLuhan is remembered for the phrase "the medium is the message", signifying his belief that it was the way someone receives information that mattered as much as or more than the actual information itself. That in turn demonstrated both the power of and the problems with the way the media can shape our understanding.
"Once we have surrendered our senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit by taking a lease on our eyes and ears and nerves, we don't really have any rights left," he wrote. It seems a prescient warning about the ways that the most powerful things about the internet – its ability to bring people together in communities and alter the ways we see the world – would be harnessed by private companies, who would be able to change our world just as profoundly.
Continue reading? GO HERE > http://www.independent.co.uk Independent Tech

Marshall who???

Biography from his official estate website

McLuhan was still a twenty-year old undergraduate at the University of Manitoba, in western Canada, in the dirty '30's, when he wrote in his diary that he would never become an academic. He was learning in spite of his professors, but he would become a professor of English in spite of himself. After Manitoba, graduate work at Cambridge University planted the seed for McLuhan’s eventual move toward media analysis. Looking back on both his own Cambridge years and the longer history of the institution, he reflected that a principal aim of the faculty could be summarized as the training of perception, a phrase that aptly summarizes his own aim throughout his career.

He investigated lessons on the training of perception from his Cambridge professors, such as I.A. Richards (The Meaning of Meaning, Practical Criticism), and forward to discoveries from James Joyce, the symbolist poets, Ezra Pound; back to antiquity and the myth of Narcissus, forward to the mythic structure of modern Western culture dominated by electric technology . . . Understanding Media, first published in 1964, focuses on the media effects that permeate society and culture, but McLuhan’s starting point is always the individual, because he defines media as technological extensions of the body. As a result, McLuhan often puts his inquiry and his conclusions in terms of the ratio between the physical senses (the extent to which we depend on them relative to each other) and the consequences of modifications to that ratio. This invariably entails a psychological dimension. Thus, the invention of the alphabet and the resulting intensification of the visual sense in the communication process gave sight priority over hearing, but the effect was so powerful that it went beyond communication through language to reshape literate society’s conception and use of space. . .
Flash Fast-Forward > By the time the decade ended, he had collaborated with Canadian artist Harley Parker on Through the Vanishing Point: Space in Poetry and Painting and once more with Quentin Fiore and Jerome Agel on War and Peace in the Global Village. This popular paperback, exploding at every page with McLuhan’s observations juxtaposed to a visual chronicle of twentieth century happenings, bore the improbable subtitle, an inventory of some of the current spastic situations that could be eliminated by more feedforward. The book looks and feels light years away from the Cambridge University of the 1930s where McLuhan trained, but that was just where he had picked up the idea of feedforward from his teacher I. A. Richards.
McLuhan wrote with no knowledge of galvanic skin response technology, terminal node controllers, or the Apple Newton. He might not have been able even to imagine what a biomouse is. But he pointed the way to understanding all of these, not in themselves, but in their relation to each other, to older technologies, and above all in relation to ourselves our bodies, our physical senses, our psychic balance. When he published Understanding Media in 1964, he was disturbed about mankind’s shuffling toward the twenty-first century in the shackles of nineteenth century perceptions. He might be no less disturbed today. And he would continue to issue the challenge that confronts the reader at every page of his writings to cast off those shackles.
– By Terrence Gordon (July 2002)
Note the source: https://www.marshallmcluhan.com/biography/

W. Terrence Gordon is the author of the biography, Marshall McLuhan: Escape into Understanding (Gingko Press. ISBN 1-58423-112-2).

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Published on Aug 9, 2011

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Herbert Marshall Mcluhan (*1911 - +1979) lecture recorded by ABC Radio National Network on 27 June 1979 in Australia.
For the best resource collection of his work check out the page Mcluhan on Maui (MOM) here: http://www.mcluhanonmaui.com/
The best documentary about Mcluhan (in four parts) is definitely CBC's Life and Times: Understanding Mcluhan here:
part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvpPb8...
People seriously studying his work I can point to Douglas Hofstaedter. His work resembles Mcluhan's understanding on the basic mechanics behind the mind: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8m7lF...
Further elaboration on the process chiasmus upholds for analogy and the role of metaphor as linguistic device under-grinding its mechanics might find ample references in Patricia's Phd Paper Chi-thinking: Chiasmus and cognition here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/19115184/Ch...
Note that she departs from Mark Turner's assumption of the parable as a substitute for chiasmus.
Then of course there is the great Noam Chomsky who Mcluhan mentiones in his letters as "stuffing language into grammar". Transcripts of his theories on language and the mind can be found here: http://hotbookworm.wordpress.com/cate...
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Mesa's "Cookie-Cutter" Urban Planning Is A Joke in Prescott

Blogger Pre-Note: at least in Prescott residents do know what's going on in planning and development - 50 people showed up to express concerns that consultants were bring Mesa Arizona to Prescott.... and not liking it

 

Residents react to Deep Well Ranch plans

No ‘cookie- cutter’ homes, reflect Prescott’s qualities

By Cindy Barks Originally Published: July 20, 2017 6:02 a.m

"With as many as 10,000 new homes expected to be built in northeast Prescott over the next five decades, current residents made it clear this week what they don’t want: “Cookie-cutter” neighborhoods...
About 50 people turned out at Prescott City Hall Tuesday, July 18, for the second open-house meeting conducted by developers to introduce the Deep Well Ranch multi-use project, which is planned on 1,800 acres along Highway 89 between Prescott and Chino Valley.
The plan shows a mixture of single-family, multi-family, business and light industrial uses.
Local resident Jerry Stricklin led off the audience comments by maintaining that the preliminary planning for the Deep Well project shows none of Prescott’s unique character.To counteract that, Stricklin urged the developers to “try to make this something that really stands out; do something different; take some chances.” He added: “I’ve seen this plan many times.”
Local resident Bob White expressed similar views. “Trying to apply a cookie-cutter approach to Prescott is out of order,” he said, maintaining that the consultants were bringing “Mesa, Arizona, to Prescott.”
Here's how it works in Prescott: In response to audience concerns about how the development would proceed, Barger said he expects the first step to be a gas station near the intersection of Willow Creek Road and Highway 89. After that, he said a school could follow, as well as some light industrial development.
Read more > The Daily Courier

Going-Out-of-Business: The Castle On Main | Another DTMesa Fairy Tale Hits The Skids

18 W Main Street, former home of Monsterland the long-defunct combination haunted house-and-nightspot, that opened its doors back in 2013 as a Medieval-themed Wedding and Events venue, has posted signs on the front windows that it is going out-of-business.
With 12 other catering locations here in downtown Mesa, it's the first to suffer the fall-out from too much competition when it got outclassed by too many other options. 12 W Main Street on the north side right next door might have the same fate.  

It's in a good location and a potential 'hot spot' for real estate investment - right across Main Street from 29 W Main, snatched-up by AZ State Senator and would-be downtown land-grabber politician Bob Worley who scooped-up with his cohorts, as rumor has it, 10-12 other "under-performing" properties at the going offer of $100/square foot to control the real estate here in the The New Urban DTMesa.
Future plans have not been made public at this point-in-time but there are quite a few people wanting to throw some concrete on the other Main Street blocks... time-and-finance will tell the rest of the story

BLOCKBUSTER EVENT: Herbie Hancock Here @ MAC

Herbie Hancock @ Ikeda Theater

at Mesa Arts Center

Thursday, August 17, 2017, 7:30 PM

Mesa Arts Center

1 East Main Street, Mesa, AZ

 

Image-capture just the other day, reflected back from the glass.

HERBIE HANCOCK

Presented by Mesa Arts Center
as part of the Performing Live Series
Source: https://www.mesaartscenter.com

Now in the sixth decade of his professional life, Herbie Hancock remains where he has always been: at the forefront of world culture, technology, business and music. In addition to being recognized as a legendary pianist and composer, Herbie Hancock has been an integral part of every popular music movement since the 1960’s. 

As a member of the Miles Davis Quintet that pioneered a groundbreaking sound in jazz, he also developed new approaches on his own recordings, followed by his work in the 70s – with record-breaking albums such as “Headhunters” – that combined electric jazz with funk and rock in an innovative style that continues to influence contemporary music. “Rockit” and “Future Shock” marked Hancock’s foray into electronic dance sounds; during the same period he also continued to work in an acoustic setting with V.S.O.P., which included ex-Miles Davis bandmates Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter, and Tony Williams.

[BLOGGER'S NOTE: While Executive Chef for Special Events at The Loeb Boathouse inside Central Park/New York City, it was a pleasure for me and the entire staff to cater Miles Davis' 67th Birthday Celebration - it was his last birthday blow-out on Earth - Members of his band, like Herbie Hancock and other others carry on to evolve musically ]

 In honor of his work, Hancock was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in February 2016. Hancock is currently in the studio at work on a new album.

 Hancock will be joined at this performance by Vinnie Colaiuta (drums), James Genus (bass), Lionel Loueke (guitar) and Terrace Martin (keyboardist / saxophonist).

 

More Documents From WikiLeaks

UCL / Raytheon

19 July 2017

Today, July 19th 2017, WikiLeaks publishes documents from the CIA contractor Raytheon Blackbird Technologies for the "UMBRAGE Component Library" (UCL) project. The documents were submitted to the CIA between November 21^st 2014 (just two weeks after Raytheon acquired Blackbird Technologies to build a Cyber Powerhouse) and September, 11^th 2015.

They mostly contain Proof-of-Concept ideas and assessments for malware attack vectors - partly based on public documents from security researchers and private enterprises in the computer security field.

Raytheon Blackbird Technologies acted as a kind of "technology scout" for the Remote Development Branch (RDB) of the CIA by analysing malware attacks in the wild and giving recommendations to the CIA development teams for further investigation and PoC development for their own malware projects.

 

 

Leaked Documents. Go here > https://wikileaks.org/vault7/#UCL%20/%20Raytheon 

 

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Wikileaks: CIA tasked Raytheon for analyzing TTPs used by threat actors in the wild*

Wikileaks revealed that CIA contractor Raytheon Blackbird Technologies was tasked to analyze advanced malware and TTPs used by threat actors in the wild.

* The post Wikileaks: CIA tasked Raytheon for analyzing TTPs used by threat actors in the wild appeared first on Security Affairs.

Wikileaks continues to publish documents from Vault 7 leaks, today the organization has shed light on the collaboration between the US Intelligence agency and tech firms for malware development.

The last batch of documents shows that the CIA contractor Raytheon Blackbird Technologies was tasked to analyze advanced malware and TTPs used by threat actors in the wild as part of the UMBRAGE project.

Source: https://cyber-sec-news.blogspot.com

“Raytheon Blackbird Technologies acted as a kind of “technology scout” for the Remote Development Branch (RDB) of the CIA by analysing malware attacks in the wild and giving recommendations to the CIA development teams for further investigation and PoC development for their own malware projects.”

The experts from the firm also provided proof-of-concept ideas and malware attack vectors to the firm.

The experts speculate the reports were commissioned by the CIA to gather information for the CIA’s Remote Development Branch (RDB) aimed to collect ideas for developing their own advanced malware.

Below the information contained in the reports provided by the Raytheon Blackbird Technologies.
Report 1 — Researchers at Raytheon detailed a variant of the HTTPBrowser Remote Access Tool (RAT), used by EMISSARY PANDA. This new variant was built in March of 2015 and is deployed through an unknown initial attack vector.
The RAT was used in cyber espionage campaigns by the Chinese APT group called ‘Emissary Panda.’
Report 2 — The report details a new variant of the NfLog Remote Access Tool (RAT),
also known as IsSpace, used by the SAMURAI PANDA APT group. The variant analyzed in the report is deployed using a repurposed version of the leaked Hacking Team Adobe Flash Exploit which leverages CVE-2015-5122. This new variant also incorporates the use of the Google App Engine (GAE) hosting to proxy communications to its C2 Server.
Report 3 — This report is a high-level analysis of “Regin” espionage platform that was first detected in 2014. The Regin cyber espionage tool is believed to be developed by the NSA  intelligence agency.

“This report is a fairly high-level overview of Regin, a very sophisticated malware sample that has been observed in operation since 2013. There are some indications that the malware has been in use since as early as 2008, but most agree that the current iteration of Regin dates to about 2013.”  states the report. “Regin appears to be focused on target surveillance and data collection. The most striking aspect of Regin is its modular architecture, which affords a high degree of flexibility and tailoring of attack capabilities to specific targets. Another impressive aspect of Regin is its stealthiness, its ability to hide itself from discovery and portions of the attack are memoryresident only.”
Report 4 — The report details the “HammerToss” malware which was discovered in early 2015.  The HammerToss is believed to be malicious code developed by Russian State-sponsored hackers that were being operational since late 2014.
“HammerToss is an interesting piece of malware because of its architecture, which leverages Twitter accounts, GitHub or compromised websites, basic steganography, and Cloud-storage to orchestrate command and control (C2) functions of the attack.” states the report.
Report 5 — This document details the self-code injection and API hooking methods of information stealing Trojan called “Gamker.”
“This report details the code injection and API hooking methods of an information
stealing Trojan known as Gamker. This August 2015 three-page report from Virus Bulletin contains more technical detail than many 30+ page reports from other sources. We recommend continued review of Virus Bulletin reports going forward.” states the report.

APPALLINGLY BAD F-35 FIGHTER JETS TO COST BRITAIN £150 BN || WARTHOG 2017

Good Resale Deal, huh?

Published on Jul 21, 2017

Views: 280

Britain will press ahead with a £150 billion (US$196 billion) deal to buy 138 flawed F-35 fighter jets despite serious concerns over virtually every aspect of their capability, according to an aviation analyst.
The warplanes, which will operate from Britain’s new Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers, have been touted as a keystone of future of UK air and maritime power.

Joker-Guest Host Mesa Mayor John Giles & His Mystery Guest?

The person featured in this short segment is the recently appointed Co-Chair of the Mayor's IMAGINEMESA digital online campaign to 'engage the community' John Giles now realizes that after 2 years in-office he has failed to engage the community ---- apparently taxpayer-funded and city-owned Mesa Channel 11 cannot even get this MBA's name correct!
He is Levi Leyba
Published on Jul 18, 2017
Views: 5
Listen to John Giles as guest host with the video upload attracting 5 viewers : Hello! Mesa!
We have a problem when the mayor admits he has no ideas of his own, and marches to the tune of what other people TELL HIM TO DO