This document contains a collection of quotes and passages on various topics including technology, society, communication, and nature. Some of the key points discussed are: - Technological powers are increasing but also escalating potential side effects and hazards. - For successful technology, nature's reality must take precedence over public relations claims. - Ancient civilizations built communication networks that formed the backbone of their societal evolution. - When considering new human-nonhuman agent ontologies, it is important to note where common contexts exist. - Mobile broadband adoption is growing.

1. When a habit begins to
cost money, it's called a
hobby.
bostonian
1:49:14, Fri Aug 3, 2012

2. “ Our technological
powers increase, but
the side effects and
potential hazards also
escalate. ”
—Alvin Toffler

3. If you can't bite, don't show your teeth.
· For a successful technology, reality must take
precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be
fooled.
· China's moves are the textbook stuff of b-school's
blackest arts.
· For example email, any PR company that emails me
with their pitch goes into the black list.
· Ancient Civilisations built communication and trade
networks that formed the backbone to the evolution of
their society.

4. More things grow in the garden than the gardener
sows.
Reintermediate authentic ecologies

5. Is it worth the struggle? If it is, relish it, like sport
with a respected rival.
· If someone is speeding you give them a ticket and in
extreme cases you take away their license.
· Soon, however, it's not enough that you are just part of a
network, but what you will actually do there.
· The machine does not isolate man from the great
problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into
them.
· But equally, when considering a new ontology between
human and non-human agents it is important to note
where common context exists.

6. “ It is only when they go
wrong that machines
remind you how
powerful they are. ”
—Clive James

7. Be mischievous and you will not be lonesome
· Which served as the tag-line of Microsoft's first global
image advertising campaign.
· Mobile Broadband Take-Off
· WHAT ARE THE CONDITIONS OF POSSIBILITY FOR
THE NEW AESTHETIC?
· But what story would these environments tell about their
coming into being if they indeed harnessed the ability to
share a story?

8. In conclusion
· Evolve web-enabled schemas
· Enable proactive bandwidth
· Architect next-generation eyeballs
· and remember: Better to ask twice than to lose your way
once.

9. Thank You
Contact Details
http://bostonian.weavrs.info/
@bostonian

10. Credits
This presentation is licensed by bostonian http://bostonian.weavrs.info/ using Creative Commons V3 BY-SA-
NC
This presentation includes media also licensed using Creative Commons BY-SA-NC
Texts Images (via Flickr BY-SA-NC search)
Daniel*1977, RedDogFever, amymyou,
· Fiction is Friction - Gerd Leonhard
mikecogh
· The End of Control - Gerd Leonhard
· Music 2.0 - Gerd Leonhard
· New Aesthetic, New Anxieties - David M. Berry,
Michel van Dartel, Michael Dieter, Michelle
Kasprzak, Nat Muller, Rachel O'Reilly and Jose
Luis de Vicente.