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#DoomsDayEquation…

#HeinzvonFoerster prognostizierte 2026 keinen Weltuntergang, sondern zeigte mathematisch …

#UngebremstesWachstum führt zwangsläufig in eine #Singularität.

Die Botschaft war nicht Angst …

sondern #Systemlernen! 🖖

DOOMSDAY EQUATION
Warum Kybernetiker Heinz von Foerster für 2026 den Weltuntergang vorhersagte
Der aus Wien stammende Forscher prognostizierte im Jahr 1960, dass der 13.
November 2026 (ein Freitag!) unser Doomsday sein wird. Seine Prophetie blieb nicht ohne Folgen
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"Unsere Ururenkel werden nicht verhungern. Sie werden zu Tode gequetscht werden": Heinz von Foersters Aussichten für das Jahr 2026 waren eher düster.
Biological Computer Laboratory, Univerity of Illinois
Er war fraglos einer der originellsten Denker, den Österreich im 20. Jahrhundert hervorb und - wie so viele andere auch - nicht im L🖖

January 14, 2026 at 2:37 PM

分 Bifurkatus

@dichotomiker.dresden.network.ap.brid.gy

#heinzvonfoerster ❤️

https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000302869/warum-kybernetiker-heinz-von-foerster-fuer-2026-den-weltuntergang-vorhersagte

Warum Kybernetiker Heinz von Foerster für 2026 den Weltuntergang vorhersagte

Der aus Wien stammende Forscher prognostizierte im Jahr 1960, dass der 13. November 2026 (ein Freitag!) unser Doomsday sein wird. Seine Prophetie blieb nicht ohne Folgen

www.derstandard.at

January 13, 2026 at 8:14 AM

Dr. David Pecotić

@djp1974.bsky.social

I shall act always so as to increase the total number of choices.

- #HeinzvonFoerster

November 13, 2025 at 7:34 PM

The Hunting of the Snark

@snarkhunt.bsky.social

#quotes #LewisCarroll #HenryHoliday #HeinzVonFoerster #RudolfArnheim #LeoSteinberg #TheHuntingOfTheSnark

snrk.de/snarkhunt/#q...

https://snrk.de/snarkhunt/#quotes

SNARK FOOD

"‘What is the use of a book,’ thought Alice ‘without pictures or conversations?’"
~ Lewis Carroll, 1865, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

"All art is infested by other art."
~ Leo Steinberg in 'Art about Art', 1979

"We have neglected the gift of comprehending things through our senses. Concept is divorced from percept, and thought moves among abstractions. Our eyes have been reduced to instruments with which to identify and to measure; hence we suffer a paucity of ideas that can be expressed in images and in an incapacity to discover meaning in what we see. Naturally we feel lost in the presence of objects that make sense only to undiluted vision, and we seek refuge in the more familiar medium of words. ... The inborn capacity to understand through the eyes has been put to sleep and must be reawakened."
~ Rudolf Arnheim: 'Art and Visual Perception', 1974, p. 1

"Only those questions that are in principle undecidable, we can decide."
~ Heinz von Foerster: 'Ethics and Second-Order Cybernetics', Système et thérapie familiale, Paris, 1990-10-04

"It is possible that the author was half-consciously laying a trap, so readily did he take to the inventing of puzzles and things enigmatic; but to those who knew the man, or who have divined him correctly through his writings, the explanation is fairly simple."
~ Henry Holiday, 1898-01-29, on Lewis Carroll's 'The Hunting of the Snark'

"To the best of my recollection, I had no other meaning in my mind, when I wrote ['The Hunting of the Snark']: but people have since tried to find the meanings in it. The one I like best (which I think is partly my own) is that it may be taken as an Allegory for the Pursuit of Happiness."
~ Lewis Carroll (letter to Mary Barber), 1897-12-01

"L.C. has forgotten that 'the Snark' is a tragedy"
~ Henry Holiday (remark written on a letter received from L. Carroll), 1876-01-04

June 11, 2025 at 9:54 AM

#BruceSterling

@bruces.bsky.social

*Y'know, I'm starting to believe that a way-overfinanced wave of primeval AI-hype actually destroyed "cybernetics"
#HeinzvonFoerster #fundingwar #defeat

February 14, 2025 at 6:18 AM

CyberTaters

@potato.software

I’m so happy that my dear article, “Forgetting / Potatonetics,” has been published in the new volume of the journal History of Media Studies. Check it out at:

hms.mediastudies.press/pub/gomez-ve...

#potatonetics #mediatheory #mediastudies #Kittler #HeinzvonFoerster

June 22, 2024 at 4:08 PM

Diego Gómez-Venegas

@digomezvenegas.bsky.social

I’m so happy that my dear article, “Forgetting / Cybernetics,” has been published in the new volume of the journal History of Media Studies. Check it out at:

hms.mediastudies.press/pub/gomez-ve...

#cybernetics #mediatheory #mediastudies #Kittler #HeinzvonFoerster