INSTEAD of PROSE: Software-Aided Thinking finds many Expressions

I’ve been practising ‘software-aided thinking’, ever since I began to write Word  ‘tables’ such as this one:

Dialectical Single-Disciplinary Thinking Merging Domains of Thought
Number Theory	+			Arithmetic			=		Mathematics
Geometry	+			Algebra			=
Linear Measuring						=			Chemistry, Technology Nuclear- and Astro-Physics
3D Cybernetic Inter-Disciplinary Thinking
Number Theory		+	Geometry							=	Foundation for 3D Metrology
Mathematics		+	Physics							=	3D Cybernetics
Cybernetic Numbers		+	Geo-Numerics		+			Arith-Metry		=	Cybernetic Mathematics
Cybernetic Measures		in	macro- and micro-cosmic Dimensions							=	Cybernetic Sciences

In one word, the outcome is “3D Cybernetics”, a ‘spatial’ version of what Norbert Wiener coined cybernetics in the 1950s as:

the scientific study of control and communication in the animal and the machine.

In my interpretation, cybernetics comprises

• system thinking of people
• the organisation of information thanks to computers
• channels of communication between people and computers.

3D Cybernetics is the organisation of information in 3D space.

3D Metrology is a way of measuring 3D phenomena on 2D screens, by quantifying digital images.

However, the 186 tables that I have produced cover more than cybernetics and metrology. They were the tool which

• allowed major insights into science and technology
• refined my understanding of time and space
• inspired me to write a first prototype
• and then 25 Word documents as software specifications for a second prototype.

Besides using my prototype extensively and getting add-ons developed, I also expressed my insights and understanding in

• prosaic poetry to share my exaltation and inspirations
  
• Excel worksheets for calculations, glossaries and graphs
• MindMaps for organising thoughts
• Concordances for analysing texts
• PowerPoint for getting to the gist of thinking
• Visio diagrams for specifying details for developers
• and in writing five patents. But an American IP lawyer advised me to withdraw them. I’m better protected by ‘trade secrets’, she said. 

Web publishing became a natural way of expressing ‘software aided thinking’. My chronology of websites combines

• 3D Metrics as my ‘professional life with zest‘
• a ‘social life with meaning‘
• and a ‘political life with passion‘.

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