{"id":320,"date":"2010-07-03T01:47:41","date_gmt":"2010-07-03T01:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dgen.net\/blog\/?p=320"},"modified":"2016-09-16T15:44:15","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T15:44:15","slug":"periodicity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/2010\/07\/03\/periodicity\/","title":{"rendered":"Periodicity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Building on this<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"trends in disaggregation by dgen, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dgen\/4052026900\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2758\/4052026900_0fef67063b.jpg\" alt=\"trends in disaggregation \" width=\"403\" height=\"302\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>two things:<\/p>\n<p>1) add the cyclic patterns for every form of centralisation-&gt;decentralisation<\/p>\n<p>technology | politics | finance | energy | cosmology | art | religion | etc&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>2) look to see if there&#8217;s a damping factor<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"damping\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/sc-compare-damping.png\" alt=\"damping\" width=\"225\" height=\"138\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Are we dealing with periodicity that has diminishing amplitude?<\/p>\n<p>ie. thinking in a political\/government sense: do we &#8220;normalise&#8221; into the status quo &#8211; and then need a revolution to introduce a new disruptive signal?<\/p>\n<p>How quickly do we get to the &#8220;right&#8221; cloud-edge balance?<\/p>\n<p>Can we map the damping factor to accelerate change? (ie. reduce wastage)<\/p>\n<p>If we use a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/blog\/arxiv\/24711\/\">large pile of sand<\/a>, could we get expectations towards &#8220;sustainability&#8221;(1) moving faster?<\/p>\n<p>Or am I trying to invent (another) negative entropy machine?<\/p>\n<p>Or is it all just about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg20527443.800-the-entropy-force-a-new-direction-for-gravity.html\">gravity<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>(1) Sustainability being defined as &#8220;measuring the rate of change of the right thing&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Building on this two things: 1) add the cyclic patterns for every form of centralisation-&gt;decentralisation technology | politics | finance | energy | cosmology | [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16,21,6,20,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-climate","category-energy","category-media","category-social-change","category-stuff"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/sc-compare-damping.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfJFK3-5a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1221,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions\/1221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}