There is now another instance of Charles Babbage's Difference Engine (the London Science Museum has the other). Interesting how technologists get nostalgic for the physical, material aspects of technology, long after the mechanics of the technologies they work with have become invisible to the eye...
sense (n) feel, perceive, understand, comprehend c.1400, "faculty of perception," also "meaning or interpretation" ... from sentire "perceive, feel, know,"
maya (n) : Sanskrit माया māyāa : ma (not) + ya (that) the illusion that the world can be seen only one way
I do design research at SonicRim, where, amongst other things I have fun, make sense of (analyse) the world (maya), pretend to be wise, and drink enormous quantities of tea in the process. This blog collects some observations I couldn't keep contained in my head.
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