Loving kindness meditation
May I be safe and protected from inner and outer harm.
May I be happy and contented.
May I be healthy and whole to whatever degree possible.
May I experience the ease of well being
– loving kindness meditation
The posting of the loving kindness meditation arises out of my re-reading the book Coming to Our Senses by Jon Kabat-Zin. I reread the text because we and the world seem to be going through a transformation. The problems that we have in the world and technology specifically are made less by taking a simple action. Become more aware and less reactive, mindful. The book conveys the authors understanding and mindfulness techniques. When I read the book a few years ago I was not thinking how integrated technology has become in our daily lives. That would not be a very mindful reading of the text. The past years couple years have led to a strong understanding of how deep technology is in our lives.
Marketing and promotion
Marketing and promotion are everywhere today. The advertising paints a divisive viewpoint, so one can easily identify with and feel at home with the product, brand and keep buying it. “You can be happy with this and not with that.” Are you a Mac or a PC? The answer is neither. That Apple wants you to decide is relevant, not to us really, but to there bottom line. It is important to their marketing efforts. Black and white distinctions are good for marketers because people decide one way or another based on raw emotion.
We are living our lives among millions of other people, more connected and at a greater distance than a few years ago. The loving kindness meditation is more necessary than ever. It is something that grow our collective mindfulness. It helps, because we are a little of both characters as presented in the 2011 ad campaign. Not really one or the other. From a ware perspective we are all a little Mac and a lot PC or vice versa. Depending on which on you grew up using. One is going to veer one way or the other. Not to leave Unix and it free version Linux out of the discussion, one should get some understanding of the technology and use it best for whatever ones purposes are.
The loving kindness meditation helps one understand that to center on it is the Mac or PC that makes one happy is absurd. It is being safe and protected from inner and outer harm that preforms that trick. Feeling safe and protected has a lot to do with the concepts, techniques and habits which one grew up. Concentrating on positive loving kindnesses power the best use of your day.
Clustering and data capture
Cluster analysis or clustering is the task of grouping a set of objects in such a way that objects in the same group (called a cluster) are more similar (in some sense) to each other than to those in other groups (clusters). The power of networked technology is found in the ability to capture data, today. Even without clustering and data capture it is hard figuring out where technology begins and the individual ends. To understand the individual better from a marketing and promotion point of view is the job of machine learning. It’s often termed artificial intelligence because of this very real power to identify markers in vast amounts of data. However it is programmatic and there is no consciousness decision in systems now or in the foreseeable future.
Systems break data into more understandable peices, clusters. The cluster characteristics allow the owners of the data to focus promotions at individuals because of this labeling.
Digital awareness
Digital awareness allows on to use technology more successfully not by stopping it or giving up using IT, but simply understanding what it going on in the interactions with networked devices. Digital awareness is mindfulness of the integrated reality of technology today.