precision

i listened to an npr broadcast today in which two researchers developed an e-mail format in which they purposely slowed down the process in transmitting e-mail by attaching electrical components to snails.  an e-mail transmission could not be completed until a snail traveled between two points of reference.  their goal was to create a method of transmission that provided the best of two formats…electronic precision with the randomness of a living organism.  i once gave a recording of some music i created to my then boss.  he said it was ok but that he preferred the imperfect music afforded by an acoustic instrument.  i have a music keyboard in which sound patches from different instruments have been digitized in such a way that the sound is said to be a perfect representation of an original instrument.  and i can hookup my keyboard to a computer program that can perfectly repeat sounds.  i can even edit a song so as to eliminate all errors in pitch and tempo.  i can create a word document, run spell/grammar check on it and create a perfect bit of prose.  whether the perfect songs or the perfect prose expresses anything of any value or intelligence is a whole different matter…perhaps not that any of this matters.  except that i, a person once known as ‘o.c.david’ am finding it more and more valuable to living in the world of mess, as opposed to the world of perfection.  in the modern world, imperfect things are either found, or reside, or are banished to the margins.  oddly, and i use that word purposely, true and valuable change in human societies originates from the margins of society.  i am finding marginal life to be purfect