Conference hydra::dejavu

    
    What a great question!
    
    I'm afraid that my answer is rather mundane - Massachusetts, USA.
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    Since majority of participants are most likely from the US (and 
    probably from Massachusetts), I would propose that the different 
    states in the US also be mentioned as well as different countries.
    
    Cindy
    

    You got a Brit in France near Switzerland reading here...
    
    Fancy going for a drink anyone ? ( via AP, OOB or any other form
                                             of locomotion )
    
    Good Evening, Dave.

    I'm here in the Mile-Hi city, Denver, Co, USA.
    
    BLESSED BE,
    
    PAT

    	Even though Colorado was just mentioned, there are many
    	of us here in Colorado Springs.
    
    re: .2
    
    	You're on!
    
    re: .0
    
    	I wonder who we are reaching *beyond* this world!!!!
    	...besides John M., of course.  *8-)
    
    					Carla
    

    
    I'm here in beautiful Acton, Massachusetts (though I am a transplant
    from New Jersey - the Garden State?!).
    
    Carole
    

    West Concord, Massachusetts is my current system domicile.
    
    Steve Kallis, Jr.

    The DEC location I am in is in Santa Clara, California
      
    Frederick
    

    Greetings from Tempe, Arizona 
    
    Don

    
    let's chalk up another for Colorado Springs, Colorado.
    
    regards: Dan
    

    Let's not repost the same US State (especially Mass).  Otherwise
    this will just become an abreviated version of the Who are You?
    note.  Let's find out how widely distributed people are.  Since
    there are so relatively few non-US participants, if there were,
    say, two in Sweden, that would be worth knowing.  Knowing that there
    are 97 in Mass., or 8 in Colorado doesn't seem worth the effort
    (I'm in Mass, by the way, as long as I'm posting anyhow).
    
    					Topher

    Regional HQ Sydney Australia.
    
    G'day!
    
    ....dale
    

    
          At this moment I'm in wonderful Cohoctah, Michigan ... and
          the system is hooked up to Novi.
    
          Re: .2
    
          Sounds delightful.
    
    
          C.

    I am trying hard to keep up to date with the amount of notes entered
    in this conference. 
    
    My location is Reading, United Kingdom, but I am not British or
    so, I am a true Belgian!
    
    Wivine

    
    
    Atlanta Georgia, ya'll.
    
    Theresa.
    

    Re. .10
    
    Sorry, but I couldn't let DEC'S manufacturing showcase plant go
    unmentioned.
    
    HUDSON, MA. Alias "SILICON MOUNTAIN"
    
    Steve

    
    I'm up here in cold, but beautiful, Burlington, Vermont.
    
    Jennifer
    

    	Spitbrook Rd, Nashua New Hampshire present and accounted for.
    
    	Ed

    
      I'm up here in Cold & Snowy Syracuse New York; BuRRRR!!
    
    LORENZO
    

    Lorenzo,
    
    No wonder your replys are sometimes short.  You can't stand to have
    your mittins off long enough to enter longer ones!
    
    Marion :^)

    
    Hey Lorenzo - I'm from Binghamton, NY myself (originally....well,
    Windsor actually).  Syracuse - great party town!
    
    Cindy

    Looking in from Albuquerque, New Mexico
    
    Vicki

A Brit in Geneva, Switzerland here.

John D.

P.S. Is the base note title 'Global Brain ...', a reference to 
a book by the same name? Briefly, this book describes certain
features shared by all systems just before they make an 
'evolutionary jump' and then attempts to show that human
society is showing all of these signs now. One of these signs is
increased communication between members of the system - for
example the DEJAVU conference! 

I highly recommend this book for its optimistic and new way of 
looking at what are usually regarded as 'negative aspects' 
of society - any or all kinds of conflict.

Some of the author's major evolutionary steps are:
	- chemicals to cells
	- cells to organisms
	- organisms to societies
and some fun speculation:
	- societies to global brain!
	- global brain to universal brain!!

I'll post details of the book later.

    Please do post details of Global Brain.  The book sounds facinating.
    Thanks,
    Mary

    
    
    re: .22  Fascinating! Yeah, that's us..
    
         Anyway I'm in Springfield, Mass., but I'm originally a Californian
    (Palo Alto). 
    
         I too have heard that we're sitting on the edge of an evolutionary
    jump to planetary consciousness. About 5 years ago I heard the new
    future state of being referred to as "Humanity Being".

    
    Cast another mark for Albuqeuerue, New Mexico..
    Land of enchantment....
    
    Murray     
    
    
    
    

 The state of Maine here.

         George D.

         

    re: .22
    
    > PS is the base note title "Global Brain...",
    > a reference to a book by the same name?
    
    Yes,I had the book "The awakening Earth"(subtitle "The global Brain")
    	by Peter Russel in mind when I wrote the base title.
    
    I found the resemblance between the contents of the book and example
    	communication via network(and of course this unique conference)
    	so striking that I thought it might be an interesting subject
    	for a note...
    
    I do agree with you John,this book is highly recommendable,it opens
    	up for a well of new fascinating,surprising ideas.
    	Especially an extract of one of the chapters in the book might
    	be of special interest for the folks participating in this
  	conference.I would like to quote it here....
    
		    	THE EVOLUTION OF A GLOBAL BRAIN
  
    	The embryonic human brain passes through two major phases of
    development.The first is a massive population explosion of the
    embryonic nerve cells,starting eight weeks after conception.During
    this phase,the number of cells increases by many millions each
    day.After five weeks,however,the process slows down,almost rapidly
    as it started.The first stage of brain development - the proliferation
    of cells - is now complete.
    	From there the brain proceeds to the second phase of its
    development,as billions of isolated nerve cells beginning making
    connections with each other,sometimes with neighbouring cells,sometimes
    growing fibres to connect with cells on the other side of brain.By
    the time of birth,a typical nerve cell may communicate directly with
    several thousands other cells,and some cells with as many of a million.
    This proliferation of connections continues through the first years
    of life.
    	Similar trends can be observed in human society today.We seem
    to be moving out of the period of massive 'cell' proliferation and
    into a phase of growing interconnectivity.As worldwide communication
    capabilities become increasingly complex,society is beginning to
    look more and more activated.This awakening is not only apparent
    to us,it can even be detected millions of miles out in space.before
    1900,any beeing curious to take a 'planetary EEG'(i.e. to measure
    the electromagnetic activity of the planet)would have observed only
    random naturally-occuring activity,such as that produced by lightning.
    Today,however,the space around the planet is teeming with millions
    of different signals - some of them broadcasts to large numbers
    of people,some of them the chatter of computers exchanging iformation.
    As the usable radio bands fill up,we find new ways of cramming
    information into them,and new spectra of energy,such as light,are
    beeing utilised,with the potential of further expanding our
    communication capacities.
    	With near-instant linkage of everyone to everyone through this
    communications technology,and the rapid and wholesale dissemination
    of information,Marshal McLuhan's vision of this world as a 'global
    village' is fast becoming a reality.From an isolated cottage in
    a forrest in England I can dial a number in Fiji,and it takes the
    same amount of time for my voice to reach Fiji down the telephone
    line as it does for my brain to touch the dial.As far as time to
    communicate is concerned,the planet has shrunk so much that the
    other 'cells' of the global brain are no further away from our brains
    than are our own bodies.
    	At the same time as the speed of global interaction is
    increasing,so is the complexity.In 1980 the worldwide telecommuncations
    network consisted of 440 millions telephones,and nearly one million
    telex machines.Yet this network,intricate as it might seem,represents
    only a minute fraction of the communication terminals in the brain,the
    trillions of synapses through which nerve cells interact.
    Accordingly to John McNulty,a British computer consultant,the global
    telecommunication network of 1975 was no more complex than a region
    of the brain the size of a pea.But overall data-processing capacity
    is doubling every two and a half years,and if this rate of increase
    is sustained the global telecommunications network could equal the
    brain in complexity by the year 2000 - if this seems an unbelievably
    short a time ahead,it is probably because few of us can grasp just
    how fast the growth is.
    	The changes that this will bring will be so great that their
    full impact may well be beyond our imagination.No longer will we
    perceive ourselves as isolated individuals; we will know ourselves
    to be part of a rapidly integrating global network,the nerve cells
    of an awakening global brain.
    
    (from chapter 5 , our evolving society)
    
    			Remember
    		that you are at an exeptional hour in a unique epoch,
    		that you have this great happiness,
    		this invaluable privilege,
    		of being present at the birth of a new world.
    
    					The Mother (Auroville)    	
    

Re .27 Well, OSLLAV::SVEINN, you beat me to it!
(or is it FARTER::SVEINN?!!).

Anyway here's the full book reference:

	"The Global Brain"
	(Speculations on The Evolutionary Leap to Planetary Conciousness)

	by Peter Russell

	published by J.P.Tarcher Inc, Los Angeles.

Maybe I'll start a separate topic with summarised 
chapters if I can find the time.

Meanwhile, enjoy  :-)

John D.

    Hope you find the time John.
    Mary

    ....of the global brain is situated in The Netherlands (once I was
    in the States and asked the telephone operator for a phone call
    to Holland. The answer I got was "which state?". Funny people are
    living out there :^)).
    
    Let's see how far the brain has grown since the -1 reply (november).
    
    Arie

    Adding more from Toronto,Ontario, Canada   (TRC)
    
    Scooter

So far the response to ~Global Brain - Global Dejavu~,shows that the
Dejavu conference is beeing followed on the following places
on earth:

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Australia
Canada
England
France
Holland
Norway
Switzerland
USA			- Massachusetts
			- Colorado
			- California
			- Arizona
			- Georgia
			- New Mexico
			- New York
			- New Hampshire
			- New Jersey
			- Michigan
			- State of Maine
			- Vermont

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Svein Nordrum

    AND Belfast, Ireland.
    
    Tom.
    

    and Boca Raton, Ft. Lauderdale, Palm Beach... etc.
    
    Saludos from America's Casa Blanca, Miami!
    
    jge

    	Any excuse to use your newfound Compose Character key, eh
    	Cindy?  ;-)
    
    						Carla
    

    Hallo,
    
    this is Karin from Vienna, Austria.
    
    (seem to be the one and only Austrian in here ...)

    John from the Netherlands. Dutchie II
    By the way, Holland is only a very minor part of the Netherlands.
    So dear people, if you are talking about us, just say Netherlands
    (NL). Sorry, I am in a very bad mood, folks !
    Hei, Arie, het is gelukt ! ( = hee Ernie, I made it !)
    
    ^O^

    Ok, I can't resist - though I signed in after that I was read-only.
    
    Dutchie III then? I most of the time call it Holland btw :-}
    
    Ad

    I get a kick out of this......Ad, please can you sign in also at
    note 16 ? By the way, you still need some practice on your trumpet
    don't you think ?
    
    ^O^ John

    A read-only from Puerto Rico, where the weather is warm and so are
    we!
    
    Michelle
    

    
    
    
    Greetings from "Good-Old-Vienna",
    Billie

    Cheese and wine and swiss banks and French speaking people...
    
    If I were in Germany, I would sign in there, so count it in too!
    8>
    
    Happy Fourth of July and firework inspiration to all in the
    US of A   - <sniff> -  I MISS IT! :^(^; 
    
    paul

    Hello viking,
    
    Now you can add one more from Sweden, but I'm also German, but
    this is an other story...
    
    Carmen Bjorn, Stockholm, Sweden