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Re: The "Social Nervous System"
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:04:15 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Esther Dyson <edyson () edventure com> Date: March 13, 2009 2:34:03 AM EDT To: dave () farber net Subject: Re: [IP] Re: The "Social Nervous System"I would say our biggest problem is implicitly thinking of it as a nervous system, with a central brain and remote controls, when we really should be looking at it as an organism with local autonomy and an immune system to keep it healthy.
At 01:39 PM 3/12/2009, David Farber wrote:
Begin forwarded message: 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" I quote Arthur C. Clarke out of context: "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." - 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. ------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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