Intertwingled: Morning Session # 2
Within bodies of writing, everywhere, there are linkages we tend not to see. The individual document, at hand, is what we deal with; we do not see the total linked collection of them all at once. But thy are there, the documents not present as well as those that are, and the grand cat’s cradle amoung them all. -Ted Nelson, Literary Machines (5:30)
This resonates with the Enlightenment thinkers. The Encyclopedias they produces were intertwingled.
.. In real life, that is to say, On paper. (13:24)
Literature Debugged
Silicon Valley road to riches: Don’t worry, be crappy. Get users locked in and spread. The result is privatization. Companies like Google have to reconstruct backlinks. This leads to great fortunes and inequality. -Jaron
Context-free openness (copy without context) leads to the decline of the middle class. We’re concentrating wealth in people that can process the information, and not those who created it.
1970s: two types of computer types: hippies and military men. The “draft” created a desire for anonymity. CB Radio wanted to avoid cops because they wanted to drive faster than 55mph. We had to preserve provenence and we have a social contract that rewards the people the data is about.
All simulation is political – the politics are in the rules and the data
We all know that being “apolitical” is supporting the status quo.