(I might not respond to questions or requests by which you wish to clarify the background and reasions of my feelings. This blog post is not to justify my appreciation and not to negate your interpretation. )
Here is my current read of a nice poem, or the job description of minister at large, Audrey Tang.
The poem reads as follows as it appears in many places and its interpretation is really left for those who appreciate. Thinking about how to provide the shorter translation of the poem so many times, I have decided to share my take on the loving lines. This impression is what I have felt through listening to interviews and advancement in Taiwan.
Many of us may feel it by heart, but let me refer to it from the tweet of minister Tang.
When we see "internet of things", let's make it an internet of beings.
When we see "virtual reality", let's make it a shared reality.
When we see "machine learning", let's make it collaborative learning.
When we see "user experience", let's make it about human experience.
When we hear "the singularity is near", let us remember: the Plurality is here.
To me, the poem also sounds as if many of us consciencely feel and grow the spaces with multi-dimensional network of human trying to feel together both pain and joy, and everything in between and around which can be shared through our intentional effort to learn about each other through the unmuted experience into which we thrive to immerse ourselves.
Here is how I feel about each line and about how interrelated all of them are.
The phrase,"internet of beings" has two words subtracting preposition, internet and beings. The "internet" may mean "The Internet," but might also refer to the human connection, hence, network of the communities each person is loosely acting within and on the edge. The "beings" means primarily of people and potentially the existence of concepts and kindness. If I put the two words together, it might as well as suggest that warm, interrelated net of people, and, as humans are so, all the living things and non-living things while the "internet of things" may only refer to the connection and passing data through/within the network of devised in a channel that can conduct ditigal pulses.
The term, "shared reality" carries two words, "shared" and "reality." Reality, as in Virtual Reality, may refer to presenting spaces to view in three dimension at the near real quality resolution, but this reality is far from "reality" because of missing elements in the rendering and feelings. "Reality" can cover a very wide range of being true to a person or groups and typical VR only sees the reality from the point of view through visual, rendered quality. In turn, "Reality," with broader but deeper senses, may mean how much real things, needs, and, or pains to others. Even with the highest resolution of 256k vision, the felt reality might have reached the other side marginally. The "shared reality" might refer to the effort of realities that may or may not be transferred to the receiving part or across the group, but the tireless effort to share and to be shared through unlimited effort to do so with inherit limitations.
The words in "collaborative learning" may touch not only on simply people learn collaboratively to achieve something that is commonly felt as important, but also on the attirude and perseverance to try to understand many things that have already appeared in "internet of being" and "shared reality." The actors in the previous lines, although those will never be exhaustive, have that it would be kinder and more gentle world if the act of knowing others, or maybe, including oneself, could be performed collaboratively through the helps of multiparty to understand, ask, and verify the situation or feelings that may not bubble up in the hyper filter bubbled and for those feeling marginalized and powerless.
The experience through the perseption of "user" from outside and from within may come short to capture and amplify the experience or actions arosed by experience. Instead, human experience will place the humans in focus in both and around parties of those who feel concerned or unrelated. Human experience would naturally ane explicitly include all the sensory responses and feelings that the involved parties may encounter, thus, the sensitivity and the probe expend and matter.
Finally, "the Plurality is here" refers to several forces. In many contexts of "Plurality," when it is used, it means the state where collaborative diversity is occasionally here and promised, and implies the preservation and advancement of Plurality, and for the need of those, are already here at this time of the day, today. As it is already and clearly written in the Plurality soliciting collaborative writers, our constant, conscious, and conscience effort is called for, even now, even far from the future toward which the singularity nears.
This is how I read the soothing,, kind poem. The reflection of the interpretation to Japanese language will be as follows.
When we see "internet of things", let's make it an internet of beings.
When we see "virtual reality", let's make it a shared reality.
When we see "machine learning", let's make it collaborative learning.
When we see "user experience", let's make it about human experience.
When we hear "the singularity is near", let us remember: the Plurality is here.
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