Archive for December, 2011

The many technocratic ideologies

I have briefly mentioned before that ours is a specific brand of technocracy; namely positivist. Just like theologies of Islam and Christianity both use prayer, rituals and strict moral codes while disagreeing on goals many types of technocracy exist with similar ideas and very different goals. Well what are the others then and is this [...]

Projects update blog

Though still busy with exams, some things are still getting done. Read more.

EU debt and technocratic financial policy

A lot of numbers with “billion” after them being thrown around these days, often followed by the words “EU”, “debt” or “crisis”. Debt and contagion have become magic words today, words that can be used to justify any expenditure or political choice; much like the word “terrorism” has been used to justify a thing or [...]

Work this week – Blog from Nov 27

So the college semester end is upon us (me really) so todays blog will be some short updates on what I have been doing. House idea One of the ideas we are working with for a future project is naturally a floating house. As such I have been brainstorming ways to build a house on [...]

Mooring calculations – Blog from Dec 1

I have thought more about this and I think the anchoring should be our priority number one, if the island sinks we can fix it or scrap it, but if it drifts off we could suddenly get a huge fine or something AND loose a maybe otherwise functioning island. Even our first attempt at some [...]