For those unfamiliar with Bucky, I highly recommend his book Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth. Its a short, light read. He has a really interesting take on technology’s role in pirates and he was a firm believer that there is enough resources for everyone. He even talks about the US’s vulnerability to an attack on its water system.
Towards the end of his life, Bucky had achieved rock star status and his lectures filled stadiums in all corners of the world. At age 88, he twice circumnavigated the globe to give nonstop addresses. And they weren't short - his talks routinely lasted between three and four hours without breaks. Truly a remarkable character.
I have tried to listen to the whole thing but I have barely made a third through. I used to watch it but n archive.org and the audio wasn’t great.
Currently on mobile and the videos aren’t available to hear the audio quality. Just tried on a laptop and the video is not available.
amelius 1 hours ago [-]
Apparently there are transcriptions.
detourdog 36 minutes ago [-]
I like to listen to it. I certainly wouldn’t want to try to read it.
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msephton 3 hours ago [-]
Am I understanding correctly that around 1997 a single person transcribed 42 hours of recordings? Wild and impressive. I wonder how long it took them?
Modern tools would likely do it in 42 minutes?
jubilanti 41 minutes ago [-]
At max, two full work weeks for a lightly trained amateur to transcribe 42 hours of decent but not great quality audio. A professional could do it in near realtime.
For me, it is notable that this is notable for you. This used to be as ubiquitous of a profession in modern organizations as typists were. Many people's entire job was going to meetings and/or listening to calls, transcribing the conversation, not just taking notes.
Professional stenographers transcribe in realtime with phonetic markers and everything. Even lightly trained transcriptionists can transcribe 1 hour of audio in 1.25-1.5 hours of wall clock time. For an amateur, you could probably get to a 1:2 ratio within a few hours. It's at max two full weeks of work.
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lordleft 3 hours ago [-]
While 42 minutes would be hard to beat, I think that stenography was and remains a highly mature and impressive skillset.
Cthulhu_ 3 hours ago [-]
I'm transcribing more than 42 hours of meetings and designs into software code; work is work. It's tedious and repetitive maybe but there's always people really into that kind of thing.
amelius 1 hours ago [-]
Maybe those modern tools could be used to clean up the audio and video?
detourdog 3 hours ago [-]
That’s what foundations are for. Transcription used to be a human job just like computers.
StilesCrisis 3 hours ago [-]
It still is, if you want a correct transcription and not just a plausible one!
canadiantim 1 hours ago [-]
I quite like the traingular-tiled graphic of buckminster fuller in the hero section, and that hover highlights the tiles. All very buckminster fuller-y!
dr_dshiv 1 hours ago [-]
Is there an MCP?
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https://archive.org/details/operatingmanualforspaceshipearth...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_slave
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Currently on mobile and the videos aren’t available to hear the audio quality. Just tried on a laptop and the video is not available.
Modern tools would likely do it in 42 minutes?
For me, it is notable that this is notable for you. This used to be as ubiquitous of a profession in modern organizations as typists were. Many people's entire job was going to meetings and/or listening to calls, transcribing the conversation, not just taking notes.
Professional stenographers transcribe in realtime with phonetic markers and everything. Even lightly trained transcriptionists can transcribe 1 hour of audio in 1.25-1.5 hours of wall clock time. For an amateur, you could probably get to a 1:2 ratio within a few hours. It's at max two full weeks of work.