[FRIAM] [632 Advisory] wordcrafting

[Tom Johnson]

"Information Ecologist"??????

-tj

On Nov 8, 2007 9:55 AM, Prof David West <profwest at fastmail.fm> wrote:

> Gentlefolk,
>
> I need a word.
>
> I am working on some educational proposal material, roughing out a
> possible grant application to the Olin Foundation, and related
> activities for 632.
>
> What would you call a discipline / degree / body of knowledge that
> incorporated in a holistic and deeply integrated way the following:
> art, humanities, anthropology, engineering, visualization, economics,
> imagination, science, craft, computation, math, innovation, creativity,
> entrepreneurship, business, change, transformation, transcendence, and
> enlightenment?
>
> And, what would you call someone that had achieved mastery in that
> discipline / degree / body of knowledge?
>
> Polymathics and Polymath come to mind, but Polymathics is incredibly
> ugly as a word.
>
> Nexialism and Nexialist are terms used by A.E. van Vogt in 1950s
> science-fiction novel titled Voyage of the Space Beagle (after the ship
> used by Charles Darwin in his travels).
>
> Ideas??
>
> dave west
>
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