Are we the dead pixel on God's monitor? (digital awakening part 2) by John Luxton

When Voyager reached the edge of our solar system back in 1990 and turned it's improbable eye back four billion miles to whence it came - that occasion triggered a philosophical speech from Carl Sagan that has since become the equivalent of a religious tract for agnostics.

The universe is vast and empty, we (the earth) are just a pale blue speck, smaller than a single pixel on the screens of those looking at themselves back at the Kennedy Space Centre. That the earth is stage for every human action whether good or ill - and that apparently no-one is coming to help and we must grow up and save the planet and love one another... and so on - read it here if you likey.

The digital awakening (part 1) by John Luxton

Here on planet earth I am confused by many things - the tardiness of deliverables, the flawed methodologies of those around me, the lack of stakeholder inclusion in the simplest of projects. It is a long list. But the blessed converse of this is the cheery thought that contained within my handy alembic valise are a suite of transformative implements that are so very fit for purpose and have been so for millenia.

Firstly let us consider the sigil or the logos or the hieroglyph - the very loci and source of meaning and power that dominated the ancient world and is as all-pervading and powerful now as ever was.