Florentine Design

Recently, Ed Snowden was interviewed by Neil Tyson and asked what he thought about aliens communicating to Earth - and young Ed suggested that one reason why we don't 'see' any such communications is that they might be too heavily encrypted...

A Florentine 'sword' - the Espada

...too heavily encrypted for our tiny little minds, Kyle.

Did you notice that Erdogan of Turkey, just warned Putin not to 'play with fire?'

Music is data and information, and it is

heavily 'encrypted' too, in a way

I'm afraid that message by Erdogan was far too heavily encrypted for me.

To me, it sounded like he just said - 'hey, I don't care if you do bring on World War III...'

Okay so let's start to steer away from all the dumb stuff now, and begin to move into the 'upper realms' of intelligent species and what they do and how they think.

Florence was part of these waves of classical resurgent societies which appear on the planet at intervals.

Beef steak Florentine - charred in chestnut embers,
and hinting of grilled lemons, black pepper, rosemary,
olive oil, salt 

Florence has left us with a legacy of design ideas and philosophy. Florence has left us with some outstanding food - ornate but still down-to-earth at heart, and yet always with light hints that bespeak the Florentine elegance and sophistication.

Legacy is an important word on this planet, albeit a word that few understand the importance of.

Syd Mead, the great futurist does. He understands 'legacy.' A clever legacy can enter the future.

Legacy is where the past and the future join.

Not 'the present,' or 'today' - which is where the poor academic thinkers say the future joins with the past. No; for legacy is always handed backwards from the future - a difficult concept to understand. If a legacy is not understood by the future, it will never be a legacy in fact.

People assume a legacy is what a dead person hands on to a future generation.

Olivia Wilde, as Quorra in Syd Mead's 'Tron Legacy.'
Quorra's love interest was 'Sam.' But do you 'ship Qourra-Sam-i?'

A legacy is what is understood by the future, as something which is a valuable inheritance.

Too many modern people are trapped by their overwhelming egos and the arrogance that is instilled in them - and they think they are important, and that they will 'leave a legacy.' A legacy is only a legacy if it is something that can be used by people of the future.

Nobody will recall this generation, in the future.