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The State of Information by Michael Betancourt | CTheory.netA concern with paradoxes is one of the hallmarks of the twentieth century. The transformation from a deterministic, clockwork universe in the nineteenth century to the probabilistic one of quantum physics marks a radical shift not only in the thinking about the physical world, but in how that ...
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Knowledge and Memory: The Real Story by R.C. Schank & R. P. Abelson | Yale UniversityIn this essay, we argue that stories about one's experiences, and the experiences of others, are the fundamental constituents of human memory, knowledge, and social communication. This argument includes three propositions: 1) Virtually all human knowledge is based on stories constructed around ...
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The Network University? Technology, Culture and Organisational Complexity in Contemporary Higher EducationWhile Castells and other network theorists often treat the network as a force that is somehow seen to precede the social, the findings of our study of networked technology in the university setting indicate that the so-called logic of the network is marked by a number of potential trajectories. ...
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Technology Traps - Culture Change" As a consequence of the ascendancy of technology, humans have become demeaned and powerless -- second-class citizens in their own societies. " In public debates about the issues of our time -- climate change, peak oil, economic collapse, and militarism -- there is an elephant in the room that ...
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Overextension: our American way of life is not sustainable - Culture ChangeThrough our relentless pursuit of the American Dream and our blind adherence to our American way of life, we have become overextended -- we have exceeded America’s capacity to sustainably support our existing population at our current standard of living. That is, the natural resources and ...
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TheTransitioner - Collective Intelligence, Wisdom and ConsciousnessTheTransitioner is an international network of researchers, social entrepreneurs, spiritual explorers, visionaries, writers, leaders, scientists, technical and software engineers who work on Collective Intelligence, Wisdom and Consciousness (CIWC). This is a wiki, i.e. a participative website ...
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Scandinavian Activity TheoryActivity theory is aimed at understanding the mental capabilities of a single human being. However, it rejects the isolated human being as an adequate unit of analysis, focusing instead on cultural and technical mediation of human activity. Activity theory is most often used to describe ...
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The dream of a global knowledge network—A new approachDecades of research have been devoted to the goal of creating systems which integrate information into a global knowledge network, yet we still face problems of cross-repository interoperability, lack of public infrastructure, and a coherent research agenda—both theoretical and practical—to face ...
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