Slides for the "tech talk" given by David Brin and Sheldon Brown at Google late 2006.
http://tinyurl.com/yy7yxm Where does the Net fit into 500 years of expanding tools for vision, memory and perspective? What missing pieces are people not noticing that might vastly improve problem-solving?
Jonathan Beller, Digital Ideology PresentationJonathanBeller
The document provides a summary and critique of digital ideology and media from several perspectives. McLuhan argued that new media technologies alter human senses and agency in ways that are not easily recognized. Enzensberger criticized the bourgeois media as being ideologically sterile and aimed only at control. Baudrillard saw media as preventing response and communication through "the terrorism of the code." The document then discusses how media functions as capital through advertising and data extraction, transforming the nature of value and exploitation in capitalist society.
This document summarizes a presentation about the value of printed books in the digital era. It argues that books make four main contributions: 1) Respect for the work and effort of others. Books are the result of team efforts. 2) Difficult material is good. Independent reading should include appropriately challenging books. 3) The value of effort. Books reward perseverance and enduring difficult material. 4) A bet for the future from the past. Books allow knowledge to sediment rather than just volatile information. In conclusion, books smarten both naive and smart people according to Georg Christoph Lichtenberg.
Herbert Simon argues that our task is not to predict the future, but to shape it. He outlines three conditions for an acceptable future: 1) living sustainably within Earth's limits, 2) fair sharing of resources, and 3) reducing divisions between groups. Technology provides both opportunities and risks, and it is up to us to guide technology's development and use to foster beneficial outcomes for humanity. Computers in particular can help us understand human cognition and design a sustainable future by modeling minds and societies.
1. Marshall McLuhan was a Canadian philosopher who theorized that technology is an extension of human abilities and that it shapes human identity and cognition. He argued we see ourselves reflected in the tools and media we use.
2. McLuhan's ideas influenced theorists like Seymour Papert who argued computers can help children understand how their minds work by learning to program computers. However, some question if we can truly recognize ourselves in technology.
3. McLuhan saw electronic media like TV and the internet as "tribal drums" that create a new sense of collective identity over individualism, which poses a challenge to modern liberal values.
Transhumanism 2024: A new future for politics?David Wood
Presentation made by David Wood on 2nd October 2021 to the London Futurists event "A new future for politics?" This includes 15 possible policies for mayoral campaigns in major cities in the UK in 2024.
A video recording of this presentation, along with subsequent discussion, can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJLHx5T8BFI
1) The document discusses the philosophical bases for universal design and the acceptability of implementing universal access principles in both the digital and physical world.
2) It argues that while access is seen as a core value and right in the digital world, there is more reluctance to implement access universally in the physical world.
3) The document advocates applying the emerging values of the digital age like facilitation, transparency, collaboration, and end-user design to promoting universal access in the material world to make physical environments accessible to all.
Foresight and Innovation Culture Alicante 4.dec. 2009anita rubin
The document discusses the changing nature of change and technology in society. It argues that technological change is non-linear and shaped by social factors. As information becomes more ubiquitous, new tools and institutions are needed to cope with constant change and new information. However, ubiquitous technology both expands and limits individual possibilities by enabling new forms of community but also risks numbing emotions or commercializing intimacy.
The document discusses the role of technology in shaping US ideology and power over time. It outlines how American exceptionalism, pragmatism, and the frontier spirit drove scientific advancement and innovation. Key developments include the Manhattan Project, aerospace technologies, machinery like robots, and information technologies like computers and the Internet. These innovations supported economic growth and established the US as a global leader in technology, transforming power structures and spreading American culture and values worldwide.
Jonathan Beller, Digital Ideology PresentationJonathanBeller
The document provides a summary and critique of digital ideology and media from several perspectives. McLuhan argued that new media technologies alter human senses and agency in ways that are not easily recognized. Enzensberger criticized the bourgeois media as being ideologically sterile and aimed only at control. Baudrillard saw media as preventing response and communication through "the terrorism of the code." The document then discusses how media functions as capital through advertising and data extraction, transforming the nature of value and exploitation in capitalist society.
This document summarizes a presentation about the value of printed books in the digital era. It argues that books make four main contributions: 1) Respect for the work and effort of others. Books are the result of team efforts. 2) Difficult material is good. Independent reading should include appropriately challenging books. 3) The value of effort. Books reward perseverance and enduring difficult material. 4) A bet for the future from the past. Books allow knowledge to sediment rather than just volatile information. In conclusion, books smarten both naive and smart people according to Georg Christoph Lichtenberg.
Herbert Simon argues that our task is not to predict the future, but to shape it. He outlines three conditions for an acceptable future: 1) living sustainably within Earth's limits, 2) fair sharing of resources, and 3) reducing divisions between groups. Technology provides both opportunities and risks, and it is up to us to guide technology's development and use to foster beneficial outcomes for humanity. Computers in particular can help us understand human cognition and design a sustainable future by modeling minds and societies.
1. Marshall McLuhan was a Canadian philosopher who theorized that technology is an extension of human abilities and that it shapes human identity and cognition. He argued we see ourselves reflected in the tools and media we use.
2. McLuhan's ideas influenced theorists like Seymour Papert who argued computers can help children understand how their minds work by learning to program computers. However, some question if we can truly recognize ourselves in technology.
3. McLuhan saw electronic media like TV and the internet as "tribal drums" that create a new sense of collective identity over individualism, which poses a challenge to modern liberal values.
Transhumanism 2024: A new future for politics?David Wood
Presentation made by David Wood on 2nd October 2021 to the London Futurists event "A new future for politics?" This includes 15 possible policies for mayoral campaigns in major cities in the UK in 2024.
A video recording of this presentation, along with subsequent discussion, can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJLHx5T8BFI
1) The document discusses the philosophical bases for universal design and the acceptability of implementing universal access principles in both the digital and physical world.
2) It argues that while access is seen as a core value and right in the digital world, there is more reluctance to implement access universally in the physical world.
3) The document advocates applying the emerging values of the digital age like facilitation, transparency, collaboration, and end-user design to promoting universal access in the material world to make physical environments accessible to all.
Foresight and Innovation Culture Alicante 4.dec. 2009anita rubin
The document discusses the changing nature of change and technology in society. It argues that technological change is non-linear and shaped by social factors. As information becomes more ubiquitous, new tools and institutions are needed to cope with constant change and new information. However, ubiquitous technology both expands and limits individual possibilities by enabling new forms of community but also risks numbing emotions or commercializing intimacy.
The document discusses the role of technology in shaping US ideology and power over time. It outlines how American exceptionalism, pragmatism, and the frontier spirit drove scientific advancement and innovation. Key developments include the Manhattan Project, aerospace technologies, machinery like robots, and information technologies like computers and the Internet. These innovations supported economic growth and established the US as a global leader in technology, transforming power structures and spreading American culture and values worldwide.
The document discusses globalization and global mass communication. It notes that globalization has led to vast flows of money, goods, services and people around the world. While international communication and movement are increasingly common experiences for many, there is no single agreed upon theory of globalization. Different scholars have different views on the relationship between globalization and modernity.
Today we find ourselves confronted by an overwhelming frequency of radical transformation and information overload. Extracting meaning from this paradigm and accordingly, addressing opportunities and challenges arising through ubiquitous connection and socialisation, has become the conversation of our time. The Third Place Manifesto addresses this change with a view to 'rediscovering' context within persistently disruptive and emergent social ecosystems.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
The document discusses challenges facing universities in the 21st century due to increased competition, changing student demographics, and evolving nature of knowledge. It notes competition from for-profit universities, corporate universities, and open universities. Today's "Millennial" students expect more interactive, collaborative and mobile learning compared to traditional lectures. The future of knowledge is also challenged as most major transformations in the past developed outside universities. Universities must adapt to preserve valuable knowledge while understanding and disseminating new knowledge in our digital global environment. How universities can remain central to this process is the greatest challenge.
Reinventing social communication to build a democratic technological future"mpuech
The document discusses reinventing social communication to build a democratic technological future. It questions whether democracy and sustainability can co-exist (democracy XOR sustainable future). It argues that the current stalemate is partly due to a failure to understand how communication technology has empowered bottom-up social change. It advocates reinventing social communication by focusing on generativity, wisdom in ordinary actions, and post-political governance of the digital commons.
Michel Puech - From fishbowl to global: ordinary agency in the Anthropocene"mpuech
This document discusses the "fishbowl fallacy" as it relates to addressing anthropocenic issues. It argues that viewing the world through distorted lenses like mass media, filters, and algorithms is problematic, likening it to looking at the world through a fishbowl. It advocates moving from this "fishbowl idiocy" to a more direct engagement with issues by focusing on ordinary lived experience and proximal awareness between the global and local.
The document discusses the origins and evolution of posthumanism from the 1940s cybernetics movement. It explores how developments in biology and technology could enhance and extend human capabilities. However, it also notes threats around how technology may undermine human values and control. The document calls for more research on posthumanism to understand how technology shapes human existence and to prepare for potential impacts on law, environments, and what it means to be human.
Our professional protectors (defense, intelligence, etc) stress "anticipation" of plausible threats. Laudable. But this mind set exposes unseen gaps in preparing nation and civilization to withstand the full range of dangers. A renowned physicist/science-fiction author demonstrates the breadth of dangers and a way to help reduce them.
This document provides an overview of the history and current state of print and screen media. It discusses the development of printing technologies from woodblock printing in China to Gutenberg's printing press in Europe. It then covers the rise of newspapers and publishing giants. In the screen media section, it outlines the early history of cinema from the inventions of motion picture cameras and projectors to the establishment of Hollywood studios. It also discusses contemporary media ownership trends like consolidation, integration and the rise of platforms like Facebook and Google. Overall, the document traces the evolution of print and screen media technologies and industries over time.
Virtual networks and social epidemics: the convergence of two powersClaudia Berbeo
The White Paper, VIRTUAL NETWORKS AND SOCIAL EPIDEMICS: THE CONVERGENCE OF TWO POWERS shows how virtual social networks operate and how desired goals may be converted into epidemics. Understanding these two phenomena and using them jointly may produce major changes and milestones in enterprises, communities and nations.
This document discusses the human dimension of knowledge management. It notes that people are central to knowledge management as knowledge workers. It discusses knowledge workers from four perspectives: the nature of their work, as human capital, their human nature, and how they interact with computers. It also discusses communities as important for knowledge sharing and management, noting the role of virtual communities enabled by internet connectivity.
The document discusses the importance of balancing anticipatory protection with bolstering systemic strengths that make society robust and resilient. While professional anticipators focus on anticipated threats, equal effort should go towards empowering citizens, markets, science, and transparency. Only an open and transparent society can ultimately withstand threats, as closed systems are vulnerable. Professional protectors should aim for more openness and accountability rather than self-serving assumptions.
Transhumanism aims to enhance human capabilities through technology, but this raises issues that require global cooperation to address. The rapid advancement of technologies that could augment the human body and mind may profoundly impact society in the next 15-20 years before people are prepared. All nations must work together to 1) raise awareness of potential problems, 2) limit artificial evolution research due to risks, and 3) focus technology on helping the sick rather than altering baseline human abilities, to avoid inequality, unrest, loss of free will, and other threats to human nature and global stability. Failure to do so could divide society and endanger the human race.
This document proposes ideas for using technology and neuroscience to preserve humanity while aligning spiritual practices with neural adaptation. It is divided into three parts:
1. Using technology and neuroscience embedded with psychology and psychiatry to preserve humanity's essence.
2. Resources on this topic.
3. Examining how spiritual realms and religious thoughts and practices can align with neural changes in the mind.
"Beyond digital literacy: Technological wisdom for the good life", Michel PUE...mpuech
1. The document discusses the need for "technological wisdom" beyond just digital literacy to achieve well-being and flourishing in today's technological environment.
2. It argues that ancient concepts of wisdom no longer apply and that we need new approaches at the intersection of philosophy, ethics, and digital media studies focused on individual existence and behaviors to develop an "existential virtuosity."
3. The abundance enabled by technology requires awareness, self-reliance, and a project of self-constitution to construct meaning and purpose, going beyond just skills and functions to questions of values and the good life.
This document summarizes Transhumanism and some of its key principles and figures. It discusses the growing Transhumanist movement and some of the areas of debate between Transhumanists and their critics, referred to as Bioconservatives. These include disagreements around the risks of emerging technologies, human enhancement, and what defines personhood and citizenship. The document advocates for promoting innovation and access to emerging human enhancement technologies while addressing safety and equity concerns.
The document discusses the appropriation and reuse of images on the internet and how this has changed notions of authorship. It explores how mass collaboration through sites like Wikipedia, Facebook, and YouTube have blurred the lines between content creation and consumption, making users both players and spectators. The increasing speed and availability of information online has created new structures of production and consumption of media like cinema.
Software is transforming human behavior on a mass scale, like war and religion once did, by extending and amplifying human urges. Some software aims to be addictive to keep users engaged, prioritizing profits over ethics. As software connects more people globally, it is forming a species-level nervous system, so the choices of software designers could profoundly shape humanity's future. Their work is the "staging ground" to develop ethical approaches before higher-stakes technologies emerge.
What is the ultimate goal of artificial intelligence yogesh malikYogesh Malik
Can artificial intelligence solve world hunger and bring eternal peace? We will see that when the time comes but the inevitability of artificial intelligence becoming smarter than human has raised many questions about the long-term survival of the human race
More on ArtificialIntelligence ,Singularity ,Transhumanism ,Automation ,AGI ,AITakeover ,Algocracy ,MachineLearning ,DeepLearning
This document discusses non-traditional threats and underdeveloped strengths that could harm modern civilization. It identifies potential threats from super-empowered angry individuals, rival states using unconventional warfare, overconfident innovators implementing dangerous plans without oversight, and opportunists acting out of self-interest. For each threat, it outlines possible aims, methods, impacts, and preventions or solutions that combine improved protections with fostering societal resilience.
Humans vs. Westworld: A Cultural Science Approach
By John Hartley
What does it mean to be human? What does technology have to do with that? And how do we know where “we” stop and the non-human world – natural and artificial – begins? These questions are ever more urgent as human action changes the natural environment, while human labour is increasingly automated. What will become of us when robots achieve consciousness? The answers seem to depend much more on culture than on technology; and popular speculative fiction seems to be well ahead of formal scholarship in thinking them through. Using a cultural science framework, this presentation looks at how the problem of the human is imagined in two current hit TV series – Westworld (USA) and Humans (UK). What is at stake in their very different answers to the same troubling questions?
The document discusses the evolution of media from oral cultures to modern digital technologies. It covers various media types including print, film, television, computers, and the internet. Key topics include representation and transmission of ideas through signs, paradigms shifts in media over time, and how media shapes our understanding of the world through conceptual metaphors derived from each medium. The role of advertising in shaping social mindsets through techniques like positioning, image creation, mythologization, and signification systems is also examined.
The document discusses globalization and global mass communication. It notes that globalization has led to vast flows of money, goods, services and people around the world. While international communication and movement are increasingly common experiences for many, there is no single agreed upon theory of globalization. Different scholars have different views on the relationship between globalization and modernity.
Today we find ourselves confronted by an overwhelming frequency of radical transformation and information overload. Extracting meaning from this paradigm and accordingly, addressing opportunities and challenges arising through ubiquitous connection and socialisation, has become the conversation of our time. The Third Place Manifesto addresses this change with a view to 'rediscovering' context within persistently disruptive and emergent social ecosystems.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
The document discusses challenges facing universities in the 21st century due to increased competition, changing student demographics, and evolving nature of knowledge. It notes competition from for-profit universities, corporate universities, and open universities. Today's "Millennial" students expect more interactive, collaborative and mobile learning compared to traditional lectures. The future of knowledge is also challenged as most major transformations in the past developed outside universities. Universities must adapt to preserve valuable knowledge while understanding and disseminating new knowledge in our digital global environment. How universities can remain central to this process is the greatest challenge.
Reinventing social communication to build a democratic technological future"mpuech
The document discusses reinventing social communication to build a democratic technological future. It questions whether democracy and sustainability can co-exist (democracy XOR sustainable future). It argues that the current stalemate is partly due to a failure to understand how communication technology has empowered bottom-up social change. It advocates reinventing social communication by focusing on generativity, wisdom in ordinary actions, and post-political governance of the digital commons.
Michel Puech - From fishbowl to global: ordinary agency in the Anthropocene"mpuech
This document discusses the "fishbowl fallacy" as it relates to addressing anthropocenic issues. It argues that viewing the world through distorted lenses like mass media, filters, and algorithms is problematic, likening it to looking at the world through a fishbowl. It advocates moving from this "fishbowl idiocy" to a more direct engagement with issues by focusing on ordinary lived experience and proximal awareness between the global and local.
The document discusses the origins and evolution of posthumanism from the 1940s cybernetics movement. It explores how developments in biology and technology could enhance and extend human capabilities. However, it also notes threats around how technology may undermine human values and control. The document calls for more research on posthumanism to understand how technology shapes human existence and to prepare for potential impacts on law, environments, and what it means to be human.
Our professional protectors (defense, intelligence, etc) stress "anticipation" of plausible threats. Laudable. But this mind set exposes unseen gaps in preparing nation and civilization to withstand the full range of dangers. A renowned physicist/science-fiction author demonstrates the breadth of dangers and a way to help reduce them.
This document provides an overview of the history and current state of print and screen media. It discusses the development of printing technologies from woodblock printing in China to Gutenberg's printing press in Europe. It then covers the rise of newspapers and publishing giants. In the screen media section, it outlines the early history of cinema from the inventions of motion picture cameras and projectors to the establishment of Hollywood studios. It also discusses contemporary media ownership trends like consolidation, integration and the rise of platforms like Facebook and Google. Overall, the document traces the evolution of print and screen media technologies and industries over time.
Virtual networks and social epidemics: the convergence of two powersClaudia Berbeo
The White Paper, VIRTUAL NETWORKS AND SOCIAL EPIDEMICS: THE CONVERGENCE OF TWO POWERS shows how virtual social networks operate and how desired goals may be converted into epidemics. Understanding these two phenomena and using them jointly may produce major changes and milestones in enterprises, communities and nations.
This document discusses the human dimension of knowledge management. It notes that people are central to knowledge management as knowledge workers. It discusses knowledge workers from four perspectives: the nature of their work, as human capital, their human nature, and how they interact with computers. It also discusses communities as important for knowledge sharing and management, noting the role of virtual communities enabled by internet connectivity.
The document discusses the importance of balancing anticipatory protection with bolstering systemic strengths that make society robust and resilient. While professional anticipators focus on anticipated threats, equal effort should go towards empowering citizens, markets, science, and transparency. Only an open and transparent society can ultimately withstand threats, as closed systems are vulnerable. Professional protectors should aim for more openness and accountability rather than self-serving assumptions.
Transhumanism aims to enhance human capabilities through technology, but this raises issues that require global cooperation to address. The rapid advancement of technologies that could augment the human body and mind may profoundly impact society in the next 15-20 years before people are prepared. All nations must work together to 1) raise awareness of potential problems, 2) limit artificial evolution research due to risks, and 3) focus technology on helping the sick rather than altering baseline human abilities, to avoid inequality, unrest, loss of free will, and other threats to human nature and global stability. Failure to do so could divide society and endanger the human race.
This document proposes ideas for using technology and neuroscience to preserve humanity while aligning spiritual practices with neural adaptation. It is divided into three parts:
1. Using technology and neuroscience embedded with psychology and psychiatry to preserve humanity's essence.
2. Resources on this topic.
3. Examining how spiritual realms and religious thoughts and practices can align with neural changes in the mind.
"Beyond digital literacy: Technological wisdom for the good life", Michel PUE...mpuech
1. The document discusses the need for "technological wisdom" beyond just digital literacy to achieve well-being and flourishing in today's technological environment.
2. It argues that ancient concepts of wisdom no longer apply and that we need new approaches at the intersection of philosophy, ethics, and digital media studies focused on individual existence and behaviors to develop an "existential virtuosity."
3. The abundance enabled by technology requires awareness, self-reliance, and a project of self-constitution to construct meaning and purpose, going beyond just skills and functions to questions of values and the good life.
This document summarizes Transhumanism and some of its key principles and figures. It discusses the growing Transhumanist movement and some of the areas of debate between Transhumanists and their critics, referred to as Bioconservatives. These include disagreements around the risks of emerging technologies, human enhancement, and what defines personhood and citizenship. The document advocates for promoting innovation and access to emerging human enhancement technologies while addressing safety and equity concerns.
The document discusses the appropriation and reuse of images on the internet and how this has changed notions of authorship. It explores how mass collaboration through sites like Wikipedia, Facebook, and YouTube have blurred the lines between content creation and consumption, making users both players and spectators. The increasing speed and availability of information online has created new structures of production and consumption of media like cinema.
Software is transforming human behavior on a mass scale, like war and religion once did, by extending and amplifying human urges. Some software aims to be addictive to keep users engaged, prioritizing profits over ethics. As software connects more people globally, it is forming a species-level nervous system, so the choices of software designers could profoundly shape humanity's future. Their work is the "staging ground" to develop ethical approaches before higher-stakes technologies emerge.
What is the ultimate goal of artificial intelligence yogesh malikYogesh Malik
Can artificial intelligence solve world hunger and bring eternal peace? We will see that when the time comes but the inevitability of artificial intelligence becoming smarter than human has raised many questions about the long-term survival of the human race
More on ArtificialIntelligence ,Singularity ,Transhumanism ,Automation ,AGI ,AITakeover ,Algocracy ,MachineLearning ,DeepLearning
This document discusses non-traditional threats and underdeveloped strengths that could harm modern civilization. It identifies potential threats from super-empowered angry individuals, rival states using unconventional warfare, overconfident innovators implementing dangerous plans without oversight, and opportunists acting out of self-interest. For each threat, it outlines possible aims, methods, impacts, and preventions or solutions that combine improved protections with fostering societal resilience.
Humans vs. Westworld: A Cultural Science Approach
By John Hartley
What does it mean to be human? What does technology have to do with that? And how do we know where “we” stop and the non-human world – natural and artificial – begins? These questions are ever more urgent as human action changes the natural environment, while human labour is increasingly automated. What will become of us when robots achieve consciousness? The answers seem to depend much more on culture than on technology; and popular speculative fiction seems to be well ahead of formal scholarship in thinking them through. Using a cultural science framework, this presentation looks at how the problem of the human is imagined in two current hit TV series – Westworld (USA) and Humans (UK). What is at stake in their very different answers to the same troubling questions?
The document discusses the evolution of media from oral cultures to modern digital technologies. It covers various media types including print, film, television, computers, and the internet. Key topics include representation and transmission of ideas through signs, paradigms shifts in media over time, and how media shapes our understanding of the world through conceptual metaphors derived from each medium. The role of advertising in shaping social mindsets through techniques like positioning, image creation, mythologization, and signification systems is also examined.
This document provides an overview and introduction to concepts related to cultural practice and new media cultures. It discusses key topics such as the differences between analog and digital media, definitions of culture and new media culture, theories of representation in media, and how to analyze images and representations of culture. Specific concepts covered include virtual reality, convergence, interactivity, and theories from scholars like Manovich and Hall regarding new media and representations.
The document discusses utopian and dystopian visions of technology and provides examples of narratives around different technologies throughout history. Utopian narratives see technology as able to better lives by increasing order and solving problems, while dystopian narratives view technology as facilitating a harsh social order where people have less freedom. The document also notes that technologies are socially constructed and do not determine society but rather reflect existing social and political factors.
This document promotes the benefits of being a transhumanist, including greater focus on health and longevity, smarter connections with like-minded individuals, early adoption of emerging technologies, potential cognitive enhancements, career advantages in futuristic fields, and an overall happier and more optimistic outlook on the future of humanity. The document lists over 20 reasons why every Stanford student should embrace a transhumanist philosophy.
The document summarizes several media theories including the hypodermic needle theory, two-step flow theory, uses and gratification theory, reception theory, structuralism theories from Todorov, Levi-Strauss and Propp, participatory culture theories from Leadbeater, Anderson and Jenkins, and Web 2.0 theories on the changing nature of online participation and content creation. Key ideas covered include the influence of media on audiences, the role of opinion leaders, active audience choices, encoding and decoding of messages, narrative patterns, and the democratization of media through user-generated content and networking effects online.
Crazy Futures aka Rx for Leadership Scotomas (why plausibility is maladaptive)Wendy Schultz
Short slidedeck on overcoming mental boundaries and expanding conceptual horizons in considering what possible futures may emerge, as a means to avoiding decision blindspots and black elephants / black swans.
This document summarizes several key theories and perspectives related to old and new media:
- Old media was centralized and passive while new media is decentralized, participatory, and user-generated. Theories highlighted the shift from centralized "media gods" to an active audience co-creating media.
- McLuhan argued new media are "cool" and extend our senses in a participatory way while old media are "hot" and passive. The "medium is the message" and shapes our world.
- Jenkins noted new media enables convergence, participatory culture, and collective intelligence as users share and interact online.
- Manovich analyzed how new media follows database logic and automation, creating variability and personal
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Slides - Paolo Cirio's Artworks - Art Performances with Information's Power - Paolo Cirio
Paolo Cirio is a conceptual artist who explores how information distribution, organization, and control impact society. His works involve hacking information technologies, marketing languages, legal terms, art, and popular culture to reconfigure information asymmetries and sculpt information as a raw material. By manipulating language, messages, and media, Cirio stages provocative performances and interventions that highlight different strategies for using the power of information to enact informational realities and shape new narratives.
This document discusses the organizational challenges posed by social media from a psychoanalytic perspective. It notes how social media are changing patterns of social relations and the effects on individuals and organizations. It explores how psychoanalysis might understand and work with these changes, including implications for the nature of consciousness and implications for how psychoanalysis of organizations and psychoanalytic organizations may need to adapt. It considers what a "socio-analytic app" may look like to help understand and work with the changes brought about by social media and new forms of online social organization.
The document discusses several topics related to global challenges facing humanity, including population growth, resource scarcity, environmental degradation, and the impact of technology. It notes world population is expected to peak and then decline this century, but also highlights issues like shrinking cities, planetary limits, and the vulnerability of ecosystems. The document questions whether modern technology can be guided towards more sustainable models or if existing crises will continue worsening due to factors like climate change, pollution, and economic instability. It presents some visions for moving from the current challenges to a more stable and sustainable future through approaches like education, public works, and off-planet habitation.
This document provides an overview of fake news and discusses several key points:
- Fake news has become a significant threat to both journalism and democracy. It undermines trust in media and spreads misinformation.
- The causes of fake news are human - things like confirmation bias, selective exposure, and the need to maintain one's worldview. Social media has amplified these issues.
- Fake news is not new, but digital technologies have provided a rich environment for it to spread. Populism and polarization have also contributed to its spread and success.
- While technology companies get blamed, the problem is fundamentally human. Addressing fake news requires understanding human psychology and the societal changes that give rise to it
This document discusses various topics related to media and collective identity. It begins with a discussion of how radio, TV and music like hip hop have helped form generational identities. It then discusses macro level media theories from thinkers like Mill, Plato and Althusser. Several TV shows are analyzed in terms of how they represent working class Britain and issues of race. The document also discusses representations of gender, sexuality, and youth in various media forms. It examines ideas of postmodern identity in newer media like games and social networks. Overall, the document takes a wide view of how media shapes concepts of self and society.
The document discusses various models of media effects and debates around media violence. It outlines the hypodermic needle model and two-step flow hypothesis as early models of media effects. It then discusses moral panics around media violence, such as those sparked by the James Bulger murder case and concerns over new media technologies. It notes that evidence for direct harmful media effects is weak and inconclusive. The document advocates understanding media panics as socially constructed moral issues rather than proven behavioral effects and examines the role of interest groups in fueling such panics.
New Futures for Education: Beyond the Information Age.Wendy Schultz
Keynote presented to the World Future Society's conference in Mexico City, 7 November 2003.
Note that the speech itself is written in the slidedeck notes, so if you view "notes" while clicking through the deck, you can read the speech in full.
This is Tim Love's second lecture at Oxford University. The first, titled "Advertising & Universal Compatibility, Think Like the Sun," was given March, 2007.
Access the transcript at: http://www.timlovesworld.com/files/oxfordlecture2.pdf
The document discusses the rise of machine culture and its effects on human thinking and society. It argues that Western rationality has repressed emotion and feelings, leading to alienation as people work and live like machines. This dependency on machines leaves humanity little more than servants to the machines. It further discusses how postmodern mass media overwhelms people with images and signs, disconnecting them from reality and others in a state of hyperreality where media and consumerism become the dominant forms of expression.
The document discusses how disruptive technologies and social media are revolutionizing the media landscape and cultural practices in three main ways:
1. Traffic on global internet networks is growing exponentially and will continue to do so, changing how media is distributed and accessed.
2. Media will increasingly be generated by everyday people (prosumers) using converged mobile devices and distributed through social networks rather than traditional broadcast models.
3. This has upended traditional models of expertise and authority, shifting the role of media professionals from creators to "curators" who facilitate information flows and connections.
Climate Impact of Software Testing at Nordic Testing DaysKari Kakkonen
My slides at Nordic Testing Days 6.6.2024
Climate impact / sustainability of software testing discussed on the talk. ICT and testing must carry their part of global responsibility to help with the climat warming. We can minimize the carbon footprint but we can also have a carbon handprint, a positive impact on the climate. Quality characteristics can be added with sustainability, and then measured continuously. Test environments can be used less, and in smaller scale and on demand. Test techniques can be used in optimizing or minimizing number of tests. Test automation can be used to speed up testing.
Infrastructure Challenges in Scaling RAG with Custom AI modelsZilliz
Building Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems with open-source and custom AI models is a complex task. This talk explores the challenges in productionizing RAG systems, including retrieval performance, response synthesis, and evaluation. We’ll discuss how to leverage open-source models like text embeddings, language models, and custom fine-tuned models to enhance RAG performance. Additionally, we’ll cover how BentoML can help orchestrate and scale these AI components efficiently, ensuring seamless deployment and management of RAG systems in the cloud.
Pushing the limits of ePRTC: 100ns holdover for 100 daysAdtran
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How the Net Betrays Discourse
1. ” (The online world) has broken down barriers…between people and information, democratizing access to human knowledge. This has made us much more powerful as individuals.” - Eric Schmidt THIRD MILLENNIUM PROBLEM-SOLVING Tackling accelerating change through tools of visualization, collaboration and citizen empowerment David Brin - October 2008
2. Progress in Visualization, Memory, Attention ? ? ? Art Representation Abstraction Telecommunications Mass Culture Cinema Photography Non-western Art Perspective Printing Press Symbolism Non-narrative Entertainment Advanced modelling & AR Radio Linked databases Television Personal & business Computing Gaming Internet Simulation Global Interaction Knowledge Mesh World Wide Web Personal creativity tools Lenses telescopes, microscopes Mass literacy Schools/libraries Scientific models Omni-veillance Perspective Speculative Mindset Advanced gaming & VR ? ? ? ? ? Speculative Fiction Singularity? Renunciation? Muddle-along? Crisis? A.I. ?
3. Would the early religious petitioners during the English Civil War, and the printers who spread their ideas have been able to predict that monarchs would be replaced by constitutions? Would Bacon and Newton have dreamed that entire populations, and not just geniuses, would aggregate knowledge and turn it into technology? Would those who used slow modems to transmit black and white text on the early Internet 15 years ago have foreseen YouTube? -- Howard Rheingold, author of Smart Mobs
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5. Key lessons from History: Each technological wave offers godlike expansions of vision, knowledge, attention… and reach. Every wave triggers fear of hubris and/or self-destruction. Some call for renunciation or control of the new powers by a trusted elite. Despite crises, we never refuse the new tools/prosthetics. Tempted by hierarchical supervision, Western Civilization always opts to share disrupting tech with the masses … and people always adapt. Professionalization trend seems to centralize. Danger of brittleness. But expertise can also proliferate. Soon “godlike powers” became accustomed norm, expanding creative commerce, education and citizenship. So… what new “godlike powers” will tempt us in this millennium? And can the arts of visualization & discourse help us to cope?
13. Art is also Thought Experimentation Newer memes go beyond individualism… …for example: Suspicion of authority Reversal of “time flow of wisdom”
14. Visualization Tools Part Two: The Importance of Anticipation Art Anticipation Resiliency Discourse
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16. Four general types of information flow affect three levels of society in different ways… Defense briefing excerpt… 4 Types of Adversary-Info Flow Top-down anticipation -- as in Sumeria Self-organized creativity/sovereignty -- Both oldest and newest. In government, business, science and life, we seek to anticipate: a basic human trait! Sheep entrails and auguries are replaced by analytic models and efforts to mine all relevant data. All generations convince themselves that their anticipation methods work… til they don’t. Society’s 3 layers Competitive anticipation -- the Enlightenment miracle Excerpted from DTRA , DoD & DHS talks on info security
17. Formal/hierarchical Institutions Protective agencies: e.g. FBI, CIA Arena-Markets for creative competition: Democracy, science, enterprise & courts. The People: chaotic and flighty, but ultimate source of creativity, resiliency, accountability and sovereignty. Information flow among society’s three levels… and within each level. Trap of human nature: Others need accountability. Foreign rivals, other social levels, other people, other institutions within our level… But we have reasons for secrecy! Inherent result: self-deception. Each part of our civil bargain - every vital trait, e.g. freedom - relies on information flowing. Like blood. Like oxygen. ----- The true test of maturity? “ Light must shine, even on me. Let’s find a way to do that… while still letting me do my job.” POTUS FBI CIA Congress Courts
18. Why is the core Enlightenment innovation counter-intuitive? Most info-age dilemmas are solved by more light, not less. And yes, even privacy.
19. Potential Foes #1: Super-empowered Angry Young Men Near-term/probable: Arson Aim: Spread chaos & economic damage by low-tech means. Agents: Amorphous bands of grudge- motivated harm-doers (HD). Not easy to profile. (e.g. Columbine.) Method: Burn forests, buildings, crops. Innumerable very soft targets. Backers supply untraceable, effective ignition devices (e.g. timed or laser). Easily avoid official protective measures. Potential harm: economic disruption, fear. Danger of a copycat effect. Special variants: Backers manipulate wide variety of disgruntled/alienated. Leverage Suspicion of Authority mythos. Stimulate a fashion of arson as protest. Specific preventions: Informant rewards. Massive increase in omni-surveillance? General solutions: * Raise citizen omni-awareness. (Technological and social.) * Combat nihilism/cynicism through cultural and political means. Medium/plausible: Classic Terror Aim: Inflict pain. Draw attention. Ruin morale. Demonstrate West is weak/corrupt. Agents: Classic “terrorists” & backers Methods: Disruption. Casualties. Fear, Intimidate & exhaust. Lure unwise reactions. Potential harm: Vast supply of soft targets. A myriad variants: * strike super-soft schools, malls, transit. * hit critical bridges, tunnels, choke points. * NBC death-producing attacks. * NBC denial-of-territory attacks. Preventions: Improve intel & anticipation. Follow the money. Hold meetings to study lots of scenarios. Spend billions protecting weak-link targets. General Solutions: Reduce supply of anger. Foster universal accountability. Augment citizen-society resiliency so that no single blow alters society enough to seem worth risk and cost. (The “UA93 Effect.”) Far-devastating: New Gods Aim: Create tailored pathogens via bio, chemical, or nanotech processes. Agents: Almost any angry person in 2025. (Grievances raise % of HD*, but even pampered classes generate some.) Method: When biologists, chemists and molecu-fabs offer “desktop” capability (the way cyberneticists shrank computers), all methods will be in reach of modest skill. Outbreaks may approximate today’s computer viruses , but targeted at real life. Potential harm: Possibilities range from individual poisonings to new contagions, all the way to “Fermi” extinction. Special variants: * Intergenerational resentment (e.g. if boomers benefit from life extension). * “Culture War.” Specific preventions: Massive increase in omni-surveillance? Ban technologies? Luddism. General solutions: * Increase citizen omni-awareness. (Technological and social.) * Combat nihilism/cynicism. * HD = Harm-Doers. Key Conclusion: *Supply of scenarios/targets limitless! *We could go on all day. All century. *More than “protection” is needed. * HD = Harm-Doers. Samples from an infinite supply! What about the “tradeoff” of safety vs freedom? Mustn’t power and knowledge consolidate into an elite Professional Protector Caste? All prior civs did that… ? … and all failed
20. Potential Foes #2: rival state scenarios Near: Subornation Aim: Exploit divisions in America by finding clades that can be suborned. Agents: Skilled state operatives. Method: Subornation is ancient. Always attempted vs rivals. Harm: Subset of elite or protector caste surreptitiously helps rival agendas. Recent Variants: * 1941- crony-elitism-naïveté (Lindbergh) * 1947- naïve socialist idealism . (Fuchs) *post 1947- cash-sellouts (Walkers, Hanssen) *always - blackmail (Moscow marine guards) … all (and many more) remain viable, even likely. Patterns can be hard to detect when all eyes are on other dangers. Prevention: Counter-intelligence can track patterns of divided loyalty or conflict of interest. Unexplained funds. Time spent in service of rival power. Inexplicable decisions/appointments. Solutions: Counter- subornation occurs when American society has clear high ground + culture-allure. Rivals grow more worried about defections than we are. This pattern won the Cold War. Intermediate/plausible: Coolwar Aim: Ruin U.S. competitive ability through acts of well-targeted sabotage. Agents: Trained saboteurs make careful use of local recruits & resources, while avoiding exposure. (e.g. blame “terror.”) Method: Target weak/vital arteries, choke points. Pipelines, tunnels, infrastructure, chemical/medical stores, Internet, phone system, trust networks. Harm: Economic damage, loss of confidence-trust, rising aversion to modernity-technology, internal blame-cycle. Or blame/scapegoating and war. Special features: Not likely while state rivals are growth-dependent, needing US econ engine. Plausible when competition for pax leadership grows fierce. Preventions: Improved intelligence gathering. Massive omni-surveillance? Solutions: * Citizen omni-awareness. * Culture-suborn rival citizenry so that secret coolwar becomes impossible. Illustrated in fiction: The Cool War, by Frederik Pohl. Stand on Zanzibar, by John Brunner Earth, by David Brin Far/devastating: Tuned Genocide Aim: Achieve conquest by threatening mass death via technological means. Agents: Overt attack or surreptitious. Methods: Terrifying unidirectional death. * microwaves tuned to disrupt specific genetic/ethnic groups. * diseases ethnically targeted or else curable only by restricted vaccine. * nano-mites that infest, then await signal to commence lethal work. Harm: War-scale death. Compelled surrender. Miscalculation could lead to “Fermi” extinction. Variants: Innumerable. Prevention: Better intelligence. Long Range Solution: Dispersal of competence makes outcome-certainty impossible, renders plan untenable. * Culture-suborn enough of rival populace so secret development is impossible. Illustrated in fiction: Jitterbug, by Mike McQuay Despite fresh memory (the Cold War) & historical ubiquity, this category is seldom mentioned post 9/11. All of these methods have copious historical precedent. Scenario-building and anticipation exercises reveal a vast, bewildering variety of threats. No possible combination of tax dollars and skill can begin to address them all
21. Potential Foes #3: Overconfident innovators/enthusiasts Near: BioChimeras & Zooneses. Aim: Improve food supply, better health, cure disease. Agents: well-intentioned bio-engineers. Example: Today’s protein (meat) factories create vast human-animal contact. SARS, H5N1, Ebola all crossed human-animal boundary. Harm: Pandemics. Or fear of same may limit biological science. Variants: Biological skill tempts workers to “mine” every genome, from bacteria to birds, for cool human improvements. Preventions: Relentless professional precautions and supervision. Vastly-bigger bio/CDC infrastructure. General solutions: Breakthroughs that might reduce danger: *meat from tissue culture not animals. *local (shopper-level) assay tools. *artificial intelligence (AI) helps model results before wetware is tried. *citizen omni-awareness. Intermediate/plausible: Supervolcano Aim: Tap unlimited geothermal power. Agents: well-intentioned mega-engineers. Method: Drill-access Wyoming Hot Spot, a magma needle piercing N.American Plate. Harm: Unleash Yellowstone Super-Volcano. Innumerable Variants: * Sudden release of undersea hydrates. * Physics experiments=> black hole or strangelet. * Unleash nanotechnology without precautions. * Retargeting comet or asteroid for ‘harvest.’ * Over-reaction that represses innovation. Preventions: Develop intel and anticipatory skills of professional protective castes. Long-term solution: Foster rising perception, intelligence and resiliency on the part of amateurs, skeptics, citizenry, so that all plans benefit from criticism, without criticism stymieing all plans. Illustrated in fiction: Mother of Storms by Barnes, Blood Music by Bear, Prey by Crichton, Earth by Brin, Heart of the Comet by Benford-Brin. Far-devastator: A.I. Goes Wrong Aim: Better computer & robotic servants. Agents: Company, group, nation seeks advanced tech & competitive advantage. Harm: Some fear “Fermi” extinction of old-style humanity. Innumerable Variants: * SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) has, without consulting anybody, switched to “active” beaming: hope to draw attention to Earth. * Meme plague denies populace/elites ability to perceive a range of possibilities. (Many more…) Preventions: Continue to develop the perception, intelligence and anticipatory skills of the professional protective castes . Longer solution: Foster rising perception, intelligence and resiliency on the part of amateurs, skeptics, citizenry, so that all plans benefit from criticism, without criticism thwarting all plans. Illustrated in fiction: by countless dire warnings from Terminator & Collosus to The Matrix. More subtle: Asimov’s Foundation/Robots series and Williamson’s The Humanoids. Grist for many Hollywood films, this category gets very little attention from threat-analysis or scenario exercises. Yet it could lead either to great harm or overreaction and innovation-suppression. (David Brin - 2006) But these exercises reveal that harm-doers all share a common, underlying weakness. The inverse of Enlightenment strength. A fatal allergy to light.
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23. Conclusion #2 re: dealing with change We seek to anticipate by mining every datum and applying ever-more sophisticated models. A worthy goal… and fundamentally delusional! Because anticipation - no matter how smart - inevitably fails. When it does, we depend upon the partner of anticipation… … resilience. Conclusion #1 re: information flows. All plausible foes (e.g. today’s in-fashion nemesis: “terror”) share an allergy to light. In contrast, democracy, markets and science all do better in the open. Professional anticipators (govt & business) need short-term secrets - (but exaggerate). Still the goal must be - a secular trend toward an open-transparent world , since that is the win-win condition for our kind of civilization.
24. Visualization Tools Part Three: The Importance of Resilience Art Anticipation Resiliency Discourse
25. The great trend of the 20th Century (and longer)… … the Professionalization of everything. Formerly-personal tasks are turned over to specialists. Food, safety, education, production, transport. We owe a lot to this process… … and it’s drawing to a close! COUNTER TRENDS * Demographics - can’t increase number of professionals forever. * Citizen education and access to knowledge. * Intermesh of many “specialized” fields. * Explosion of skilled avocations. * Powerful new augmentations of Vision, Memory and Attention. The 21st Century may shift from professionalization toward… … an Age of Amateurs. What better way to spread resilience? Alas, despite “smart mob” chic, it won’t be easy…
26. Critical Choke Points Stymie Citizen Self-Organization in Crises. All of these examples were observed during Katrina. All could be repaired, if prioritized. Phone Internet Electricity power/failure Electricity power/failure Poor “last mile” connectivity: worse in crisis… Crisis=>Lack of ANY connection at all… Overload or official pre-emption ISP dependency Abysmal self- organization software. No emergency modes of access School Bus C’mon! Let’s evacuate folks with this bus! Not a chance! Just sit and wait! Officially-enforced citizen passivity -- The common trait shown during Katrina by state, local, federal officials, Republican & Democrat. Rationalizations: * maintain order * prevent crime * liability concern * peacetime procedures * enforce company, agency, guild privileges But the subtext underlying official behavior during Katrina: ” The vigorous and effective ad-hoc citizen action that we all saw on 9/11must never be allowed again.” Useless for news etc. 1. Cell System 2. Net Access 3. Taking physical initiative The lessons of 9/11 were lost during the Katrina Crisis… how could that happen? Crux: Resilience faces top-down psychological resistance . company-specific
27. Why Johnny can't code BASIC used to be on every computer a child touched -- -- but today there's no easy way for kids to get hooked on programming. By David Brin Another under-recognized “choke point” -- a growing disconnect between citizens and the technologies that serve them.
28. Citizen volunteers - CERT members, Boy Scouts and guardsmen - were essential during the 2007 San Diego firestorm … as they were on 9/11… … and during ever crisis since the republic began. A lesson we forget at our peril. www.citizencorps.gov/ cert /
29. Like other surges of vision, memory & attention , this one stirs fear. But other renaissances chose to e mpower people. Offer tools to grow. To own the name - “citizen.” Above all, they will need tools of discourse. Relevance to homeland security? http://web.archive.org/web/20070221233757rn_1/e-sheep.com/spiders/
30. Visualization Tools Part Four: The Importance of Discourse Art Anticipation Resiliency Discourse
31. Progress in Visualization, Memory, Attention ? ? ? Art Representation Abstraction Telecommunications Mass Culture Cinema Photography Non-western Art Perspective Printing Press Symbolism Non-narrative Entertainment Advanced modelling & AR Radio Linked databases Television Personal & business Computing Gaming Internet Simulation Global Interaction Knowledge Mesh World Wide Web Personal creativity tools Lenses ->telescopes, microscopes Mass literacy Schools/libraries Scientific models Omni-veillance Perspective Speculative Mindset Advanced gaming & VR ? ? ? ? ? Speculative Fiction Singularity? Renunciation? Muddle-along? Crisis? A.I. ?
32. Some think we’ll cope with accelerating change… … and some think we may not. Other generations adapted new tool sets and squeaked by. Do we have all the tools we need?
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34. Contemporary “chat” - dreadful! Still using 1960s format! Millions of teens on MySpace type billions of words! Immense market! But depressingly shallow… hopeless for grownup conversation, work or collaboration. Yes, some like it shallow. But must shallowness be a law of cyberspace? “ Avatar Worlds” like There and Second Life limit interaction to grunt flirtation and “ROFL.” Billions are spent on fine rendering. Cool stuff! But meanwhile, tools to usefully exchange thoughts and information have languished, undeveloped. The Synchronous Realm in 2008 …
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36. Yet, f ew of these basic skills have usefully arrived onscreen. Even “social network” designers ignore basics. We still do all of those things! High priority attention goes to people you chose to face or get close to. We adjust attention by many criteria - topic, time, reputation (global & personal), direction, distance. Least attention paid to those who are away/behind. Yet, you notice if folks mention your name - or other hot words - even far away! We divide attention, shift tracks, adapt new priorities. We track the “gist” of conversation, but can also make careful notes. And this is just a cocktail party! Inborn attention-agility skyrockets when matters seem important. Time has effects, but doesn’t lobotomize! Casual talk doesn’t have to be shallow. Rules of courtesy matter . There are consequences to reputation!
37. “ Gisting” - Semantic Services Government & academe have knowledge, text & analytic services. But the public lacks intuitive interface. We need the same access to semantic processing … … that we take for granted in the real world… … sifting meaning from the barrage of daily life. Holocene
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39. How do we know these things never made it online? What never?
40. United States Patent Application 20030001890 United States Patent No: 7,124,372 January 2, 2003 - Filed: June 12, 2002 Date of Issuance: October 17, 2006 Interactive communication between a plurality of users Inventor: Brin, G. David Abstract A novel system, method, and computer program for interactive communication among a plurality of users. The invention, called Holocene Conversation Mode ("HCM"), takes advantage of the observation that human beings have developed or utilize a number of real-world characteristics to participate in, perceive, control, and glean subtleties from conversations. These characteristics include proximity and orientation of a listener to other speakers, memory ageing, emphasis by a speaker, relative importance of a speaker to a listener, reputation of a speaker, and the unique human ability to "filter" words of special interest to a listener from overheard conversations. HCM includes a suite of techniques, including spatial and content compression as a function of some of such characteristics, that can be implemented in various combinations in computer software. HCM supports other forms of user interaction , such as allowing a user to give or send an object to another user, or to allow a user to take an object from another user. In addition, HCM supports "kiosks", in which users can interact with non human resources in the context of a host-defined environment. Inventors: Brin, Glen David; (Encinitas, CA) Correspondence Name and Address: FISH & RICHARDSON, PC 4350 LA JOLLA VILLAGE DRIVE SUITE 500 SAN DIEGO, CA 92122 US Proof that these traits, properties, services and methods never made it online… No significant “prior art.” These gaps in online discourse are real! 126 claims. covering a vast range of potential onscreen representation and communication methodologies. No… never!
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42. I head 2 the bar later & the paper news … re Westerville & an " upper albany " development…got a little scared … Has anyone heard bout power outages? This lightning is crazy. Lots of multiple flashes. Ironically I’m near downtown and it’s already clearing up. oct = crazy month weather wise n OH?… lm not used 2 it. “ I weep for thee” (poem link) W.Shakespeare tornado watch in grove city … blah…blah… omlette… Yup- thx 4 thinking of me. I was dntown when sirens started last nite, but all I heard was that it was grove city …. - a tornado warning for franklin county ‘til 7:30. - CMH parts the weather like red sea. John Smith … sister missing Good of you to drop by weather watchers. Smart services notice a quotation. Many other services. Semantic content, text, gisting & services emulate the power of real brains… Transcript zone also notepads etc Shouldn’t you be able to go BACK and recall what someone said earlier? Memory assistance services are represented here by a simple scroller. Semantic alert: someone far away (even in another world?) is discussing something important to you! Simple gisting : font ageing, remove low-pri words User’s own words. Issue of whether they should use up screen space in center… Let’s solve the problems from the previous screen.
43. Real Life suggests Additional Services … Hey! Action cell Action cell Find and correct problem 17 Suggest this alteration flow chart addendum Xz1 Service Kiosk courtesy : attention cues World services Web or Phone Search Game-play (kiosks do exist on some avatar worlds) Action cell “ Bricki” project whiteboarding: Both synchronous meeting and asynchronous collaboration. kiosks Privacy/deflection Also: VOIP, video, analytic tools, self-cloning, teleportation… … all the way to new-style game methods, environments, formalisms… … and rapid Augmented Reality overlays. Smart-Transcript encompasses only chosen members: many gisting styles. I agree with you … … but not with you ! file Exchange files/items Helpful “natural forces” Iteration #12
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45. Conclusion: We deserve better from the Net Art Anticipation Resiliency Discourse
46. Our meandering path. Tech advances in Vision Memory Attention disrupt civilization, provoking Crises of Confidence. Civilization passed every test by empowering people to apply reciprocal accountability. And with new tools for problem solving. 21st Century Problem Solving requires: Art Shake assumptions and the status quo. 21st century tools Visualization Simulation Games Openness Anticipation Leaders foresee dangers/opportunities. 21st century tools Analytics Modeling & Correlation Data gathering Accountability Resilience Citizens are robust. Respond well to surprise 21st century tools Agile communication Self-organization Dispersed expertise Transparency Refutation Confidence Discourse We argue, discuss, persuade & improve. 21st century tools analytic tools dispute resolution Better interface! Happening! Desperately needed!