Re: The "Social Nervous System"

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Frode Hegland <frode () hegland com>
Date: March 12, 2009 7:33:55 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Re: [IP] Re:   The "Social Nervous System"

Yes, and then there's this:


“The right kind of interface design can take advantage of the worlds
evolving communications web and turn our screens into windows on
one another's minds.”
Timothy Leary



On 12 Mar 2009, at 17:39, David Farber wrote:

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> From: Scott Brim <swb () employees org>
> Date: March 12, 2009 1:04:43 PM EDT
> To: David Farber <dave () farber net>
> Cc: ip <ip () v2 listbox com>
> Subject: Re: [IP] The "Social Nervous System"
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> I quote Arthur C. Clarke out of context:
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> "What we are building now is the nervous system of mankind, which
> will link together the whole human race, for better or worse, in a
> unity which no earlier age could have imagined."
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> - Arthur C. Clarke, "The Social Consequences of Communications
> Satellites," paper presented at the 12th International Astronautical
> Congress, Washington, DC, 1961, and published in Arthur C. Clarke,
> Voices from the Sky: Previews of the Coming Space Age (New York:
> Harper & Row, 1965), p. 139.
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