Comments on: Who is “Everybody”?

By: saqib

saqib — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 22:17:11 +0000

If we take Susan Blackmore’s hypothesis to be true i.e. memes are the 2nd replicator and machines are the 3rd replicator, than machine readability will win!

By: Administrator

Administrator — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:15:21 +0000

Yes good point…

By: cgerrish

cgerrish — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:37:54 +0000

Nice summary. I think there’s another element — the political battle among the major vendors. To a large extent what they accept as a standard determines the lens through which we see the network. It’s not top down or bottom up, it’s the warfare of the marketplace.

By: Administrator

Administrator — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 08:21:43 +0000

Marian, fuzzy-logic is a fascinating tool, and could be useful in certain systems and processes, and I think your comment about “everyone in particular” is actually highly appropriate. Relevance of content to each individual, is only difficult to achieve if you are attempting to apply a ‘remote’ solution, imposed on the user. The ideal solution is quite counter-intuitive to the legacy systems holding sway at this time, so in many ways philosophy ideally needs to drive the technology in respect to these questions now, but it takes time, i.e. to quote Clay Shirky (one last time) from ‘Here Comes Everybody’: “Because social effects lag behind technological ones by decades, real revolutions don’t involve an orderly transition from point A to point B.”

- Simon Edhouse (@simonedhouse)

By: marianasoffer

marianasoffer — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 06:13:52 +0000

I agree that we need everybody in general but I think we also need everyone in particular, with its peculiarities, therefore it would be more like things are in reality. Maybe you can use some fuzzy logic to impliement this kind of overlaping of concepts, ideas and forms of thinking