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Old vs. New? (...more)
How do we as a society cope with rapid change? Is there a war being waged across the generation gap? Here's something to think about.
October 5, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack
End of Semester Remarks (...more)With the last day of classes now behind us I'd like to share some final thoughts. For the first time all in one place here are a few of the important aphorisms we explored this semester. The Internet and the...
April 13, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
More Socio-technical shifts... (...more)Near the end of Weaving the Web we began talking about various socio-technical shifts that make up our current transformation. Cluetrain, in a thousand little soundbytes, touches on them and many more. Technological determinists, like Marshall Mcluhan for instance, believe...
February 10, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
The Mind Analogy (...more)You may have heard the term collective consiousonous. It is tempting to make a comparison between the internetworking of minds and machines and the wiring of our own brains. Computers, it could be said, provide the brain and cortex, the...
February 3, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Socio-technical shifts (...more)We will be moving on to Cluetrain but never quite leaving TBL's 'Weaving the Web' behind. Though it is now five years old you'll not find a more succinct and lucid overview of the Web's past, present, and future. The...
February 3, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
