Ton Zijlstra
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New Complexity Levels, New Attitudes, Skills and Tools to MatchRealize that with free sharing and free group forming your sphere of influence has become flexible and malleable. You really do own your own world. So what Monsters currently live in your sphere of influence? And what attitudes, skills and tools do you bring to the party, to either influence technology or our cultural understanding of our selves?2 years ago
Ton Zijlstra
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New Complexity Levels, New Attitudes, Skills and Tools to Matchthe tools we need are about visualization (complex pattern recognition, move away from lineair flows of single information items which doesn’t scale). New protocols are needed, and we need to stop thinking about the laptop screen as the single interface to all this. Like with the skills and attitudes our tools need to reflect the relation individual-globe, and embrace what we know about groups, community and uncertainty as design principles.2 years ago
Ton Zijlstra
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New Complexity Levels, New Attitudes, Skills and Tools to MatchWhen it is about being an interdependent individual in a global network, then skills relating to group dynamics, complex structures etc become key. It also means seeing the systems, institutions, and structures we take for granted currently, for what they are2 years ago
Ton Zijlstra
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New Complexity Levels, New Attitudes, Skills and Tools to MatchI am pretty sure these attitudes are key. In a world where you as an individual are connected to the rest of the world as individuals, and the nation state as proxy disappearing, you are indeed the starting point for your life. Hence you need to own your world. Your nation is not going to fix any of your problems or fulfill any of your wishes. Also stay amazed about the new infrastructures: never take them for granted because that will make you loose sight of the fact that it is on the infrastrcutural level where society really is being changed.2 years ago
Ton Zijlstra
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New Complexity Levels, New Attitudes, Skills and Tools to MatchBut they also form a forward looking reflective process for us. Where are the cultural categories that are changing? Where are the new technologies used in a conventional way, and what does it say to us?2 years ago
Ton Zijlstra
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New Complexity Levels, New Attitudes, Skills and Tools to MatchThe Monster Theory offers a way of looking at the change infrastructure has on society. It looks at the cultural boundaries and categories that are influenced by emerging new technology and infrastructure.2 years ago
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