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29 May 08

Full text of DESCHOOLING SOCIETY by Ivan Illich courtesy of Paul Knatz

increasing reliance on institutional care adds a new dimension to their helplessness

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  • increasing reliance on
    institutional care adds a new dimension to their helplessness
  • We need research on the
    possible use of technology to create institutions which serve personal,
    creative, and autonomous interaction and the emergence of values which
    cannot be substantially controlled by technocrats. We need counterfoil
    research to current futurology
06 May 08

Donna Haraway - A Cyborg Manifesto

  • Modern machines are quintessentially microelectronic devices: they are everywhere and they are invisible
  • One of my premises is that most American socialists and feminists see deepened dualisms of mind and body, animal and machine, idealism and materialism in the social practices, symbolic formula-tions, and physical artefacts associated with 'high technology' and scientific culture.
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Locke and Land Title

The `noosphere' of this essay's title is the territory of ideas, the space of all possible thoughts [N]. What we see implied in hacker ownership customs is a Lockean theory of property rights in one subset of the noosphere, the space of all programs. Hence `homesteading the noosphere', which is what every founder of a new open-source project does.

Far� Rideau <fare@tunes.org> correctly points out that hackers do not exactly operate in the territory of pure ideas. He asserts that what hackers own is programming projects—intensional focus points of material labor (development, service, etc), to which are associated things like reputation, trustworthiness, etc. He therefore asserts that the space spanned by hacker projects, is not the noosphere but a sort of dual of it, the space of noosphere-exploring program projects. (With an apologetic nod to the astrophysicists out there, it would be etymologically correct to call this dual space the `ergosphere' or `sphere of work'.)

In practice, the distinction between noosphere and ergosphere is not important for the purposes of our present argument. It is dubious whether the `noosphere' in the pure sense on which Far� insists can be said to exist in any meaningful way; one would almost have to be a Platonic philosopher to believe in it. And the distinction between noosphere and ergosphere is only of practical importance if one wishes to assert that ideas (the elements of the noosphere) cannot be owned, but their instantiations as projects can. This question leads to issues in the theory of intellectual property which are beyond the scope of this essay (but see [DF]).

To avoid confusion, however, it is important to note that neither the noosphere nor the ergosphere is the same as the totality of virtual locations in electronic media that is sometimes (to the disgust of most hackers) called `cyberspace'. Property there is regulated by completely different rules that are closer to those of the material substratum—essentially, he who owns the media and machines on which a pa

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14 Apr 08

Cognitive Edge

followed the link through to the University of Chicago project on Wisdom. http://wisdomresearch.org/
I hope the Lord has mercy on my soul. I certainly won't insist on justice:>)

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Cognitive Edge

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Need for tools of analysis designed for rapid deployment.

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  • A very large part of what we know, and how we know it is fluid, evolutionary and context dependent. 
03 Apr 08

I, Cringely . The Pulpit . War of the Worlds | PBS

Andy Hertzfeld said Google is the best tool for an aging programmer because it remembers when we cannot. Dave Winer, back in 1996, came to the conclusion that it was better to bookmark information than to cut and paste it. I'm sure today Dave wouldn't bother with the bookmark and would simply search from scratch to get the most relevant result.

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