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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/27/20 2:56 PM, Yosem Companys
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<div dir="ltr">This is an excellent follow up. Thank you.
I will bring up to the topic with the folks in Hong Kong
and pose these questions to them as well.</div>
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Dear Yosem: You are most welcome of course.... I would like to
acknowledge being in receipt of Paul Swider's note on the matter
also, which makes me desire to share the following heartfelt thought
with you both, and with the membership.<br>
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Over the last two years, I have been in conversations with friends
and colleagues in Hong Kong, in relation to many of the developments
there. During that time, we have attempted to mutually explore,
"what" it is that "the people of Hong Kong desire". The
constituting elements "of the reality on the ground" has remained
difficult for many to make visible and negotiate. Despite the vast
numbers of impressive, strong-willed, dedicated and resilient Hong
Kongers seen around the world protesting this past year, where many
of them had identified with fellow residents desiring
independence/self-governance, an expressed, cogent and cohesive
political and social direction for the residents of HK remains
absent. <br>
<br>
Consequentially, the world - it seems, has found it difficult to
soulfully connect with the plight of HK rightly, and to offer
meaningful support. <br>
<br>
I receive and interpret Paul Swider's message through the lens of a
specific context, and factuality, which is confirmed by experience.
That is: technology becomes meaningful, and a success, when it has
the opportunity to meet and wed 'a grand purpose', and is able to
encourage and facilitate in the fulfillment of such a purpose.<br>
<br>
Warm regards.<br>
<div class="moz-signature">--<br>
<font color="#cccccc"><i>Dr. Robert Mathews, D.Phil.</i><i><br>
</i><i>Principal Technologist &</i><i><br>
</i><i>Distinguished Senior Research Scholar</i><i><br>
</i><i>Office of Scientific Inquiry & Applications (OSIA)</i><i><br>
</i><i>University of Hawai'i</i></font><br>
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