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Society for Philosophy and Technology

Mediawork pamphlets. “Mediawork Pamphlets explore art, literature, design, music, and architecture in the context of emergent technologies and rapid economic and social change”.
I’m a big fan of the first pamphlet, Utopian Entrepreneur by Brenda Laurel Check out Scott McCloud’s visualizations of utopian entrepreneur at the site.

January 10, 02002

Kevin Kelly: The Web Runs on Love, Not Greed. [reprinted at dave’s scripting news]

“Creative Evolution”, Henri Bergson, 1907 - described as “the fullest expression of the philosopher’s ideas about the problem of existence, propounding a theory of evolution completely distinct from those of earlier thinkers and scientists.” (Full text online edition).

Spend sunday evening reading “The Hacker Ethic” by Pekka Himanen, Manuel Castells and Linus Torvalds. First impression: required reading for everyone!

Rant: The Internet-Generation
These kids are the future, frightening and lovely as they are, so beware!

They take the web for granted. They expect corporations to be fully open and transparent. They expect access to all information online. They expect customer-centered companies with web-enabled business processes. They expect any corporation to engage in conversations on any matter if they ask. They unite competences in and understanding of business, technology, communication and design. They are masters of internet technologies and communication technologies. They show no respect for existing power structures, corporate sales & marketing bs, secrecy, brands and corporations since they at a very young age fully understands how the world works in year 2001 - they’ve already deconstructed it.

The future are the mini-rushkoff’s who acts as if they had read the cluetrain manifesto in kindergarden!

The corporations that “gets” this and attracts these kids as employees and customers will be the big winners of tomorrow. (Although you shouldn’t get your hopes too high of hiring them - they’ll all be freelancers or entrepreneurs at age 20! ;_)

Can’t wait to see what amazing ideas, products, movements and companies these kids will create!

Guan Yang is one of many examples. (Just too bad his values, manners and attitude at this point doesn’t live up to his high intellect! - but please give him some slack - what we’re you like at age 16? - and how many mistakes did you make at that age?)

MIT Technology review:
Digital Renaissance: Convergence? I Diverge.