Rock-n-Go 岩棋志

Ross指点的Wiki去处，是从Engelbart开始的。BBS是84年，博客是1999，近来的发展在这里。

Ross提过网路生态系统，中间有提到世界大小的问题。Shirky的受众尺度范围分析和群体症结两帖也可读。

Just as the ability to read and write and freely communicate gives power to citizens that protects them from the powers of the state, the ability to surveil, to invade the citizen’s privacy, gives the state the power to confuse, coerce and control citizens. Uneducated populations cannot rule themselves, but tyrannies can control even educated populations, given sophisticated means of surveillance.

—- Michel Foucault, “Discipline and Punish”, 1979, p290)

In 1859, John Stuart Mill explained why freedom of opinion was good for society.
“First, if any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to assume our own infallibility.

Secondly, though the silenced opinion be in error, it may, and very commonly does, contain a portion of the truth; and since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision of adverse opinions that the reminder of the truth has any chances of being supplied.

Thirdly, even if the received opinion be not only true, but the whole truth; unless it is suffered to be, and actually is, vigorously and earnestly contested, it will, by most of those who receive it be held in the manner of prejudice, with little comprehension or feeling of its rational grounds.”

Do you want to be back in Chicago in Octorber? Here is a good reason to do so.

While information systems and networking augment human powers of organizations and integration, they simultaneously subvert the traditional Western concept of a separate, independent subject.

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In a world characterized by simultaneous globalization and fragmentation, how to combine new technologies and collective memory, universal science and communitarian cultures, passion and reason?
(asked by Calderon and Laserna)

In a post-industrial society, in which cultural services have replaced material goods at the core of production, it is the defense of the subject, in its personality and in its culture, against the logic of apparatuses and markets, that replaces the idea of class struggle.

Alain Touraine (1994)

Emeryville, 菠菜沙拉，Peter西藏的经历以及新的知识网路。

随意浏览，看到Karen Stephenson的Netform, 以及这本网路组织的书。

In a world of global flows of wealth, power, and images, the search for identity, collective or individual, ascribed or constructed, becomes the fundamental source of social meaning.

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