Where was JFK when I got shot?

OR: 'Placing the 1872 Completion of the Australian Overland Telegraph Line in historical context.

Please use the comments area to add YOUR recollection of histori

cal events either side of the 1872 date, for example;

1908 Henry Ford's first Model T motor car rolls of the production line in Dearborn Michigan ushering in another epoch of mass production [remember the Colt 45?].

1746 Wired Monks

1844 May 24, Morse sends a telegram from Washington to Baltimore, the 1st message...'What hath God wrought! [He died July 1872, 7 weeks before Charles Todd connected the final piece of line, Aug 26 1872]

1857 16th August completion of the first transatlantic cable, Queen Victoria sends a telegram to president Buchanan.
1859 The solar superstorm of 1859 was the fiercest ever recorded. A

uroras filled the sky as far South as the Caribbean, magnetic compasses went haywire and telegraph systems failed....

1861 US East West overland telegraph line completed

1872 Brigham Young is arrested for polygamy (28 wives).
1872 July 2, Samuel Morse [the father of open source software?] dies about 7 weeks before Charles Todd completes link for the Aussie overland telegraph line Aug 26 1872.

1873 Eadweard Muybridge, yep the spelling is correct, settled a bet on whether the hoofs of a horse galloping are ever all in the air at once. Wagers aside, collaborating with John D. Isaacs, the resultant photographic apparatus ushered in the very start of that Leviathan we've all come to love, motion pictures. [Here's a great link to his work from a really good online Gallery; Artsy. Well worth a look]

1873 Jesse James and James Younger gang's 1st train robbery (Adair Iowa) 

Mike Smith Archaeologist-environmental historian on Central Australia around 1870 [www.abc.net.au/rn] 

If you can add  to this article [Use Comments please] by suggesting important events that happened in this general milieu it will be appreciated.

So Long Pancultural-e

Howdy the Alic-e Memestreme

An Ainslie dreamscape.
The overall theme for 08 is the generation on an evolving entity, namely Pancultural-e Alic-e [PAlic-e].
PAlic-e will skip and grow along the songlines of the "New Media" domains: Blogs, Wikis, Youtube, Facebook, MySpace, the Digital and Creative Commons, PayPal, 2nd Life, Online Education. PAlic-e is off and running on web two point zero. Or as 'Neuromancer' author Will Gibson put it "Count Zero Interrupt"

Ainslie Laughter at Dawn ,

There's someting spooky about Virtual Tourism...
We've all heard the refrain "Doe's art imitate nature or does nature imitate art?" The answer is 42, and to get back to my original point, there we were last week, GPS enabled PDA in hand tripping across the Alice Springs Overland Telegraph Station historical reserve [ASTS]. The Virtual Tourism guide software has the real-time map called up, my next point on the tour is marked as a green dot on the map, I'm the red one. Now this GPS is so sensitive [+- 3 to 4 metres] that, God Like, your able to watch yourself walking across the face of the earth as you draw ever nearer to the next tour point. [approaching this point a bunch of 'new media' is triggered onto your player to Augment your reality]. In terms of this capacity to get feedback on what we may be doing in the real world [Meat Space] or Cyber Space: 'Propriocentricity'

David Levine in a presentation at the 2007 Learnscope conference discussed this term. The terms current usage describes the feedback one experiences from internal tissue, muscle and neurons. It gives one tactile, time and location specific feedback about where a part of the body is.

In cyber space and meat space there are a wealth of tools that serve to perform this function. Raised cones set into a pavement inform blind folk they are approaching a crossing, audio signals at traffic lights cue one in, Nintendo Wii remote control units allow you to perfect your golf swing, decapitation etc, 2^nd life avatars and GPS devices also serve this function. I feel it will be the marriage of this feedback coupled with instant communication/collaboration that will define the boundries of how we commence to work with each other

Google Earth Alic-e ans 2nd Life
Here comes the spooky bit. Georgina Nou brought this up at the learnscope 07 show and tell, namely that as one fritters about in/on a 2nd life Island media/intel/info gets triggered for your consideration as you lope into the radius of a hotspot.

Now this is precisely what gives when one is wondering around in Augmented Reality with a whizz bang IAD Virtual Tourism PDA/GPS handset. You walk up to something, within a pre-defined user hotspot] and up pops some media/intel/info.
Now, who's emulating who? What's imitating what? and did I leave the oven on? Oscar Wilde said imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. This is more like cross pollination.

So, that'll do for now, has Babel got anything to do with Babylon?