Exploring the exciting and emergent world of distance learning tools. Started by DenhamGrey on 04/22/2000.
What Kind of University?
The challenge for universities
Many universities are making substantial investments in new technologies for teaching purposes. The increasing ease of use and improved presentational and interactive features of technologies such as the World Wide Web are leading many academics to use technology for teaching for the first time in a significant manner.
However, although there has been widespread adoption of new technologies for teaching in the last few years, they have yet to bring about major changes in the way teaching is organized and delivered. Without such changes, though, technology-based teaching will remain a marginalized activity, while at the same time leading to increased unit costs.
For technological change to be effective, it usually needs to be accompanied by major structural and organizational changes for its full potential to be realised. This paper attempts to indicate some of the strategies that universities may need to adopt in order to use technology effectively for teaching and learning.
This is a classic paper by Tony Bates 1997 is important and certainly appeals on first glance. He goes on to outline 12 steps in which the University will be reformed, transformed – I’ll list them here.
Twelve organizational strategies for change 10
1. A vision for teaching and learning 11
2. Funding re-allocation 12
3. Strategies for inclusion 13
4. Technology infrastructure 15
5. People infrastructure 15
6. Student computer access 16
7. New teaching models 18
8. Faculty agreements and training 20
9. Project management 21
10. New organizational structures 23
11. Collaboration and consortia 26
12. Research and evaluation 27
Online Learning
To be effective, online courses must do two things, says Fernando Senior, an instructional designer recently hired by the University of Minnesota’s distance-education department. They must focus on learners, and they must capitalize on the medium. In other words, students should demonstrate learning in different ways than they might in a classroom, because they have at hand the tools to do so.
… Constructing such rich learning environments wouldn’t be possible without technology, say its enthusiasts, but to make courses this sophisticated, schools are tapping project-management teams. And these bring their own set of pros and cons to education.
On the plus side, instructors say that working with teams makes them better teachers, and that different perspectives enhance their courses. They say they also see a difference in what students take away from their work: “Students take much more responsibility for their own learning and use the online environment to supplement and enhance their learning experiences,” says Trisha Swan
Wisdom here. Good article.
The site it comes from is worth noting too: ComputerUser
Many articles on file and I can flick them straight into the Palm! Beautifully done.
Postmodern Virtualities
Postmodern Virtualities
Mark Poster
(This essay appears as Chapter 2 in my book The Second Media Age (Blackwell 1995)
…
“In the twentieth century electronic media are supporting an equally profound transformation of cultural identity. Telephone, radio, film, television, the computer and now their integration as “multimedia” reconfigure words, sounds and images so as to cultivate new configurations of individuality. If modern society may be said to foster an individual who is rational, autonomous, centered, and stable (the “reasonable man” of the law, the educated citizen of representative democracy, the calculating “economic man” of capitalism, the grade defined student of public education), then perhaps a postmodern society is emerging which nurtures forms of identity different from, even opposite to those of modernity. And electronic communications technologies significantly enhance these postmodern possibilities. Discussions of these technologies, as w e shall see, tend often to miss precisely this crucial level of analysis, treating them as enhancements for already formed individuals to deploy to their advantage or disadvantage.”
Tim Jordan, Cyberpower
Psychotherapy Online with Walter Logeman
Psychotherapy Online with Walter Logeman
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I have updated my Psychotherapy Online pages.
Symbolic Species
The Symbolic Species : The Co-Evolution of Language and the Brain by Terrence W. Deacon
What separates humans from animals, Deacon writes, is our capacity for symbolic representation. Animals can easily learn to link a sound with an object or an effect with a cause. But symbolic thinking assumes the ability to associate things that might only rarely have a physical correlation; think of the word “unicorn,” for instance, or the idea of the future. Language is only the outward expression of this symbolic ability, which lays the foundation for everything from human laughter to our compulsive search for meaning.
It is this ability to do the symbolic thing that is the stuff that dreams and cyberspace is made of.
I have become the world
CTHEORY: Cyberwar, God And Television: Interview with Paul Virilio
Virilio: The body has a dimension of simulation. The learning process, for instance: when one learns how to drive a car or a van, once in the van, one feels completely lost. But then, once you have learnt how to drive, the whole van is in your body. It is integrated into your body. Another example: a man who pilots a Jumbo Jet will ultimately feel that the Boeing is entering his body. But what is going on now, or should happen in one or two generations, is the disintegration of the world. Real time ‘live’ technologies, cyberreality, will permit the incorporation of the world within oneself. One will be able to read the entire world, just like during the Gulf War. And I will have become the world. The body of the world and my body will be one. Once again, this is a divine vision; and this is what the military are looking for. Earth is already being integrated into the Pentagon, and the man in the Pentagon is already piloting the world war – or the Gulf War – as if he were a captain whose huge boat would have become his own body. Thus the body simulates the relationship to the world.
That is isnteresting on the connection between the body and the virtual world!
Big Stage
Likeminds
Macromedia – Press room : Macromedia extends personalization to the inbox with LikeMinds eMail
LikeMinds observes implicit clickstream behavior, purchase history, and explicit form data on the e-merchant�s site. By comparing such behavior with those of previous visitors to the site, LikeMinds accurately predicts the products and content that are of interest to each individual. LikeMinds eMail uses these recommendations to generate scalable, outbound e-mail campaigns that are personalized to each recipient, driving more repeat visits and more satisfied customers
Sounds almost evil, yet this is the I Like This idea we invented and still await the implementaion of.
Distance Learning
DistanceLearning
A collection of links and commentary to the growing literature on distance learning. Started by Denham Grey 08/15/1999.
Unfreezing the Corporate Mind
Unfreezing the Corporate Mind
John Seely Brown
If you want to change a corporation, you need to change the conversations happening within it. That was the recommendation from John Seely Brown in his address to Real Time participants.
In a good conversation, the whole is more important than the parts, Brown said. A focused conversation is a self-scaffolding structure that has a dynamic aspect to it . Therefore, if you change the conversations of a corporation, you change the corporation.
“All learning starts with focused conversations,” Brown says. “The only kind of learning you want to think about is collaborative learning. But how do you structure conversations to become self-scaffolding conversations?”Expertise lies as much in the social mind as in the individual mind, Brown said. Knowledge is distributed across people and across artifacts. So the ability to interpret each other — read what is really happening — is tacit knowledge possessed by the group as a whole. That knowledge is brought together when groups share tasks over a substantial period of time, he said.
This of course is from the author of The Social Life of Information interesting to discover that he wrote that key article (see below) in the first issue of The Fast Company back in 1995.
Community of practice
Communities of Practice – TCM.com DEAD LINK – Saturday, May 8, 2010
In 1997, the Ottawa Organizational Effectiveness Interest Group (OEIG) Book Study Group discussed the article, “The People are the Company” from Fast Company – Handbook of the Revolution. “Communities of Practice” are a central theme in the article. We’ve created a permanent reference for OEIG with the article and some other sources of related information for anyone interested in the subject.
Communities of Practice – References
Communities of Practice
Communities of Practice: Learning as a Social System
CoPs eGroup – Discussion forum – Drafts, working papers, links, and other goodies are shared here.
Collective learning and collective memory
What Should Collaborative Technology Be? A Perspective From Dewey and Situated Learning
Metro Insight: Softwork
Communispace.com
Participate.com
More Communities of Practices Links
Privacy vs the need for connection – to live & learn.
The Psychological Meaning of Internet Privacy
Some news clips and then some musings from me.
Groups Criticize Amazon Policy
By D. IAN HOPPER, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP)
“Consumer groups say a change in Amazon.com’s privacy policy could leave customers of the Internet retailing giant no recourse if they don’t want personal information such as credit card numbers and home addresses passed on to some other company.
Seattle-based Amazon.com Inc., which sells a wide range of products, including books, toys and hardware, posted a revised privacy policy on its Web site Thursday telling customers the information they give is considered a company asset that can be sold. A company spokeswoman, Patty Smith, said the new policy is actually more restrictive in some cases, and better explains what Amazon can and cannot do with customer data.
“As we continue to develop our business, we might sell or buy stores or assets,” the new policy reads. “In such transactions, customer information generally is one of the transferred business assets.”
No. 3.6 . The Filter. 9.08.00 from Harvard at has a section on this… they say:
“Now, in the wake of a decision by the Massachusetts Bankruptcy Court overseeing the ToysMart case not to consider its agreement with the FTC in the absence of a buyer for ToysMart’s assets, leading e-tailer Amazon.com has introduced modifications to its privacy policy making it clear that Amazon customers’ personal data is considered a company asset and can therefore legitimately be shared with Amazon’s growing cadre of corporate partners�or, if need be,sold.”
The question of privacy is and will be debated from a legal, political and social perspective. From a psychological perspective what is happening as Amazon changes policy? A lot.
First Some thoughts about Amazon . This is a super Alexandria – and an Amazon customer is a scholar in the greatest library ever, so what happens as we access this database of books in print? It is not only a library it is a huge many-to-many discussion about books. Yet the networks of people here is not social – “I learn that people who bought this also bought this” – that is a psychometric or psychological revelation. I can look at reviewers and their profiles, meet them, see what is on their wish list and in their “purchase circle” and move to the website of fan clubs and authors. This is not like meeting people in a physical bookstore – here we read their minds – we enter into a mind-space. We find books without the help of librarians, but with each other in systems of automated and non-automated collaboration that runs deep. Because this library will work best if there is only *one* people flock to the biggest, where they find the most. Perhaps it is sad that this is a store, and a commercial, corporate, capitalist place – that is not unlike many universities – there is no class neutrality when it comes to learning. With immunity to the Orwellian nightmare inherent in the inherent impact of the words: knowledge about the customers is called an asset.
That knowledge of the scholars in this modern Alexandria is the very thing that is used to tune the scholars into the information using automated collaborative filtering or psychometry as Moreno would have called it. It would seem a marvelous virtue if it was *one librarian* who had the knowledge about the scholars. This virtue becomes scary in the panopticon.
As individuals we are not able to learn, learning is in relationship with others, always. These relationships are so vital that we will seek them out wherever they work best – even if we have to be humiliated by being seen as a “user, a customer, and an asset”. Can the impulse to seek the purest collaborative knowing be stronger than any companies ability to exploit that need for its own greed? Can our collective spirit and soul transcend the ugliness of some of the culture invading the Net?
Planning for Online Learning
GroupSense – Planning for Online Learning
“The Internet, on the other hand provides a flexible means of presenting content and also supports interaction between teacher and learners and among learners in groups. This is fuelling an explosion in the delivery of courses online. The September/October 1998 edition of Group Computing reports that in late 1997, there were 7,000,000 students taking distance learning courses from higher-education institutions”
This quote is from an article by Dan – sums up the GS approach to Online learning, and covers the basics – is valuable because it *is* basic.
GroupSense
“Online Groups enable people to work, learn and build shared knowledge-bases together at their own time, their own place and their own pace. Online Groups foster and facilitate innovation, learning, collaboration and knowledge-sharing.
GroupSense partners with organisations to establish self-sustaining Online Groups that achieve specific purposes.Online Groups use simple technology that requires only standard email. GroupSense provides Planning, Design, Training and Hosting to establish Participation Habits that maximise the value of each Online Group.”
This is my friend & colleague Dan Randow’s site. Business is thriving, and I am pleased to be working with the team as a part time consultant. I have been in on discussions and planning from the start but only this year have I begun to work professionally, as a host. The GroupSense approach makes sense – it is essential to work with *people first*, it is only from knowing people and the organisation that we can design the group structure and format.
Full Circle Associates: Online Community Resources
Full Circle Associates: Online Community Resources
Nancy White’s list of resources.
Here are the categories:
“Index – see below for specific links.
Online Community – General and Nancy’s Musings – Some of these are just beginnings of ideas, waiting to germinate. – Articles and Events – Online Community Design Resources – Online Facilitation and Hosting – Virtual Teams/Remote Work – Online Community Software and Web Based Platforms – Cyber Activism, Cyber Democracy, Community Networks and Advocacy (I know, odd mix. Things emerge…) – Cyberculture Resources – Cybercommunications Resources – Some of my Community Sites – Online Community-related Listservs and Newsletters – Full Circle BookShelf – always a few related books here. – MORE!! Online Community Links”
Amy Jo Kim
Community Building on the Web:Companion Siteby Amy Jo Kim
8/29/00 — online seminar by Amy Jo Kim
Click here to see-and-hear the transcript
(requires Windows Media Player)
Later: Saturday, 10 May, 2008
The audio link is dead.
Jacob Neilson
Jacob Neilson Cookies I thought this was funny! Nice site.
1998 – 1999
Here is another legacy item.
Pasted here so it is part of this blog for search.
Psybernet
Links 1999
Resources that inform the quest for
depth and purpose in human interaction
and
the
exploration of the
psyche in cyberspace.
Cyberspace Psyche & Life Online | Technology and Internet
Other Psybernet links
Cyberspace, Psyche & Life Online
- ASD Association for the Study of Dreams
- Mediasphere
What are the mediaspheres?
Régis Debray divides Western cultures
into three historical eras according to the way mankind looked at the
world as influenced by the predominate means of transmission: writing,
printing and the audiovisual. - http://www.socio.demon.co.uk/magazine/5/5jon.html
[Saturday, 24 February, 2018 – Archive Cybersociology Magazine: Issue Five A Few Points about Online Activism by Jon Lebkowsky ]
The
following is with specific ref to online groups:
“1) Democracy is a not a helpful
goal.At this point I cringe when I hear the d-word because it doesn’t mean
anything. It’s a vague, rather dubious concept, and those who toss it around
the most seem to have thought least about its implications. Even worse, they
think it has something to do with freedom, as though a democratic majority
couldn’t be as oppressive as any tyrannical individual, even more
so.”
- Generic Psychotherapy
“Philosophy & Structure
This is the place to start for a general
overview of the ideas central to generic
psychotherapy:
Theories of Development
Theories of Illness
Theories of Therapeutic Action”
Basic Orientation
Concepts are a set ideas which have been developed to untangle some of the
confusions that are sometimes found in discussions of psychotherapy. The basic
concepts are ways of ordering ones thinking about ideas that are commonly found
in psychotherapy:
Meta
Concepts
Mental Operators
Logical Levels and Levels of
Explanation
Map vs.
Territory
Metaphor,
Mediation, and Mechanism - Dee W. Hock, Founder and CEO Emeritus: VISA
Founder and President: The Chaordic AlliancePosted: October 27, 1998The Birth of the Chaordic Century: Out of Control and
Into Order (Part 1 of 2)Editor’s Note: Dee Hock is responsible for the
“chaordic” organizational structure of VISA, which
propelled it into the largest credit card company in the world. He has since
become both a student and mentor of this organizational architecture, and is
one of 30 living laureates of the Business Hall of Fame. Part one discusses
the nature of the VISA organizational structure and the background behind
its creation. Part
two next month will discusses the
implications for the future. - http://www.dreamtree.com/
“The Dream Tree is an online and offline resource center, designed to assist dreamers in exploring their dreams and in connecting to others within a shared dream community. “
- “NewsScan”
<newsscan@newsscan.com>
NewsScan Daily, 18 October 1999 (“Above The Fold”)
Mon, 18 Oct 1999 08:01:03 -0700GOD IS IN THE PROGRAMMING DETAILS
Anne Foerst, resident theologian at MIT’s
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, says: “I think that computer
science, and especially artificial intelligence, is THE field for
religious inquiry.” Foerst, an ordained minister who holds advanced
degrees in theology, computer science, and philosophy adds: “At
some point, cog-like robots will be part of our community,” and
suggests that we widen up the criteria of what it means to be human to
include chimps and some smart robots.” Foerst work has been
attacked as “evangelical” by the founder of the Artificial
Intelligence Laboratory, Marvin Minsky, who charges: “The act of
appearing to take such a subject seriously makes it look as though our
community regards it as a respectable contender among serious theories.
Like creationism and other faith-based doctrines, I suspect it is bad
for young students.” Foerst says she understands Minsky’s
skepticism: “Some theologians are very anti-technology. The first
reaction they always have is fear: ‘These robots are different from us.
Humans were created in the image of God.’ They are not even willing to
consider those questions.” (San Jose Mercury News 16 Oct
99)http://www.sjmercury.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/075884.htm
- The Voice of the
ShuttleThe world is a strange place when we make links pages,
and link them to other links pages ad infinitum. This is a cyber link page
to end them all!What the Allusion
[to the Voice of the Shuttle]
Means:(The cross-weave of interior hyperlinks on this page is designed to
provide an interlinear commentary–a commentary with no voice other than the
pattern of the links themselves. The best way to read this page is in Lynx or
some other browser that uses a highlight or other indicator to show which of
several closely-clustered interior target-links one has jumped to. Netscape
shows where one has jumped by placing the target-link on the top line of the
screen–which is adequate except when there is more than one possible
target-link on a line. Note: there is no “Back to Voice of the Shuttle Home
Page” link here; instead one of the links in the quotations–the obvious
one–serves that function.) (This page last revised 11/16/96)Hmmm, a little out of date.
- Robert Bosnak’s
http://www.cyberdreamwork.com/Approach to Cyberdreamwork
“Welcome To Cyberdreamwork. The site where together
we drill for dreams and
probe the depths.Dreams are lands of pure imagination. They are the
life we
live beyond the day. Cyberspace is created by imaginationas well.
Dreams and cyberspace are a perfect match.Dreamwork makes it possible to
revisit our nightly
adventures while being fully awake. This is done
through
intense focus.Dreamwork is easiest if a few others who care
about
dreaming ask you questions to keep your focus
concentrated and guard
you from otherwise inevitable
distractions. With the help of a group the work
deepens towell beyond anything you can do on your own.
If you like to
search along the borders and into the depths
of the unknown please enter. “ - John Sulers extensive Psychology of Cyberspace sitePsychology of Cyberspace
Article Index“Listed below is a list of links to all the articles and
pages in the hypertext book (web site) The Psychology of Cyberspace.The articles are arranged
chronologically, with the most recently written or revised ones
appearing near the top. The most recent date of the article, its version
number, and its approximate size are indicated. Unless otherwise stated,
the author of the article is John
Suler, Ph.D. There also is a subject index and search engine for this book. Links on this page will produce
a “pop-up” window placed on top of this window. “ - First Monday
Publishing on the Net : It
may be late in the piece, but I have just discovered a net native publishing
venture, with good articles. - List of all the articles
- Waiting for Thomas Kuhn: First Monday and the Evolution of Electronic Journals by Edward J. Valauskas
- Personal Boundaries/Global Stage by Harold Thimbleby
Movie: The Story of Home Page
Home Page is a documentary about the web. The site of
the movie is interesting in itself, or at least the story of the author Doug
Block perhaps more so, here is a taste:“As I continue on my
Web journey, you’ll continue to get a running account of my progress,
direct links to the people I encounter and, hopefully, some insight into
the documentary film making process.“These pages began as
an extension of the documentary. Inextricably interwoven. An ongoing
feedback loop.“Now they’re an
extension of my life.”That is what making a web site does to you! wl
- Culture, Class and Cyberspace
Art McGee’s thorough email with references to race in cyberspace.
- The Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies
“The Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies is an online, not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to research, study, teach, support, and create diverse and dynamic elements of cyberculture. Collaborative in nature, RCCS seeks to establish and support ongoing conversations about the emerging field, to foster a community of students, scholars, teachers, explorers, and builders of cyberculture, and to showcase various models, works-in-progress, and online projects.”
- Internet Interviews
A lot of them are dead, some of them might be found
with esewhwere with a search, but this one works: - Seulemonde Conversation with Gregory Ulmer
- HOW WE BECAME POSTHUMAN: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics,
Literature and Informaticsby N. Katherine Hayles,
University of Chicago Press, paperback, 364 pages, $18A review by
BY LYNN YARRIS“Hayles guides us through the speculations and commentaries of a wide range of authors, including Gregory and Mary Catherine Bateson, Rodney Brooks, Richard Dawkins, Richard Mark Friedhoff, Christopher Langton, Bruno Latour, Margaret Mead, Marshall McLuhan, Marvin Minsky, John Searle, Sherry Turkle and, her favorite, mathematician and cybernetic theorist Norbert Wiener.
“Hayles contends that, through literature and academic discourse, our culture has been prepped to accept the disembodied information through which posthumans inhabit the cyberworld. She finds the prospect terrifying and exhilarating.
“Her writing style — she persistently drops
exotic names with no identification — together with the subject matter
makes “How We Became Posthuman” a tough read. But her insights into
the implications of her subject and the literary and scientific writings
she discusses make it worth the effort. “ - Let My Software Go.
Salon
article commenting on Raymond and Netscape. - Andreessen, Kawasaki outline Web revolution
It may be about software and business but reading between
the lines this is about life in general … funny and perhaps has some wisdom! I
enjoyed reading it anyway. - Microsoft Buys Firefly
One of the reasons
this news gets such a mention here is that the collaborative filtering is very
*psychological*, at least in principle. Also because a few of us here have
*dreamt* about its use in groups and also more broadly see the story I wrote about our adventure and links to the dummy pages
I drafted a few years ago. - Torvalds’ Linux Broadened PC Choices
This article gives a little intro to the in depth material presented in
the ”The Cathedral and the Bazaar” - Instant cultural literacy. By David Pescovitz Ideas
Fortes. - Esther Dyson
- OMNIZONE
- AOL, Reaching Out to Teach Someone
- Generative Art
- Joseph Campbell Festival
- PowWow Virtual Community Kit
- Technorealism: Beyond the Hype
- Smash the Technorealist State
- Four More Colleges Join California Virtual University;
Eighty-One Colleges and Universities Now Participating - Communities crop up on the Net
- Books on the Brain
- Opera Grows in Cyberspace
-
- Once on the GBN Book Club there is plenty to
explore…
Try
Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration
. for another review by Brand of the book by Warren Bennis. This review probably makes the book redundant!Buy it at Amazon
there are also a swag of
reviews there, none have the praise for it that that Stuart Brand has. - Collaborative Virtual Environments
A page with links to many resources and the mailing list description.
I Joined the list, but have not received posts, I wonder where the problem
lies? Will check. wl
- Judith S. Donath
Assistant Professor of Media Arts And Sciences
Director of the Sociable Media Group at the MIT Media LabA list of wrings on the human side of the net…
some relevance to the psyber-explorations.
- LISTEN to a talk of Christina Grof’s on “The Stormy Search for Self” Courtesy of Conference Recording Servicehttp://www.conferencerecording.com/soundclips/cgrof.ram
- Spirituality and Technology: Exploring the Relationship by Michel Bauwens
- Technosis
by Eric Davis. Here is an excerpt from the amazon review. More reviews in the click to amazon above.Erik Davis looks at modern information technology–and much previous technology–to reveal how much of it has roots in spiritual attitudes. Furthermore, he explores how those who embrace each new technological advance often do so with designs and expectations stemming from religious sensibilities.
- Interview with David Noble Commerce Influences
Content: The author of the Digital Diploma Mills articles is interviewed by
The Node.
A powerful analysis of how private interests determine
what we read, how education, innovation and health care is under their
control.How
this influences the psyche is worth pondering especially
in the light of the Giegerich articles mentioned in January 99 (Psyche
below). - Cyber School. Distance learning makes
education easy
- Janus
Head: Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature,
Continental
Philosophy, Phenomenological Psychology, and the Arts -
Jinn
- The Future
of the Self is the title of a book by Walter
Truett Anderson which is related, at least on the surface to the question we
have been exploring in Psyber-L… it there something new about the soul
(related to the Self in some way surely)Article from World Future Society - More:
Evolution of the Psyche
by David H. Rosen (Editor), M. C. Luebbert (Editor) could be seen as on the same theme, but not really as far as I can tell. More on that one at
Jungindex .
I have a sense it is more about the evolution of various social behaviours. - Of more interest to me is:
The New Renaissance : Computers and the Next Level of Civilization
by Douglas S. Robertson. I hope this reviewer does not mind my quoting this excerpt:reasenberg@cfa.harvard.edu from
Cambridge, MA , November 18, 1998
An upbeat preview of a world transmuted by computers.
To live at the beginning of a new era is exciting; to do so and understand what is happening is a rare privilege. Douglas Robertson offers to share this privilege with us by presenting his vision of a world transformed by computers in the not-too-distant future. It is an upbeat peek at the future, devoid of the gloomy forecasts of some “future shock” science fiction adventures. As with all penetrating portrayals of the future, The New Renaissance is provocative and draws controversial conclusions.From a
psychological point of view this book may be relevant, it is about the
emergence of a new *era* does that imply a new Psyche? - This book may take us further:
Pearly Gates of Cyberspace : A History of Space from Dante to the Internet
by Margaret Wertheim. It is not available yet at amazon, but I my friend has one from Australia. (look forward to review from Brian! 🙂 I noticed that
http://buybooks.com does have it, and much cheaper. What does that
say about the overpriced amazon shares?
- All of these books, as well as the links mentioned in in January 99 on the theme of the Psyche in Cyberspace are relevant to the discussions in
Psyber-L
a private mailing list which explores these
matters and includes our immediate experience in the discussions.
- Once on the GBN Book Club there is plenty to
- PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN
Toward a Science Charged with Faith -
Chapter 3 of God and Science
by Charles P. Henderson“As Karl Marx turned the world of
philosophy upside down by revealing the foundations in society for every
human theory, Teilhard tried to accomplish the even more difficult task
of turning theology downside up. He tried to demonstrate that the
material world, the world of rocks and trees, stars and planets, plants
and animals, rather than being the neutral subject of scientific
investigation, was in fact the soil from which would spring a new vision
of the holy. The very subject matter of pure science was nothing less
than a mirror in which one could see reflected the face of
God.”Makes sense to me, it is like the shift
that Giegerich speaks of, Copernican. -wl- Particular Links on Teilhard de Chardin
I
am interested in these old ideas about noosphere, as they tie in with
Technosis, Giegerich… wish i could get to write it all up, but links are
enough for now. wl — 2 Feb.
- Teilhard de Chardin and the Noosphere
by Rev. Phillip J. Cunningham, C.S.P.“It was his opinion: “We are,
at this very moment, passing through a change of age. Beneath a change
of age lies a change of thought.” (1961, p. 214, 215) That hidden
change would at first influence only a few but it would continue to
expand. “I know of no more moving story nor any more revealing of
the biological reality of a noogenesis than that of intelligence
struggling step by step from the beginning to overcome the illusion of
proximity.” (p. 216)”
- I have been studying and enjoying:
The Opposition of ‘Individual’ and ‘Collective’
– Psychology’s Basic Fault:
Reflections On Today’s Magnum Opus of the Soul
WOLFGANG GIEGERICHSee also:
Response to Wolfgang Giegerich’s
Reflections On Today’s Magnum Opus of the Soul
by Greg MogensonGiegerich’s response to Mogenson.
The
archives
of the Seminar
with Wolfgang Giegerich. - Jung Index
Many items to explore such as
Interview with June Singer - http://www.levity.com/index.html
“LEVITY
is a leading strategy, programming,
software development, and design
consulting firm,
based in New York City.
Levity approaches its work with
an essential merger of business strategy,
technology and aesthetics.”
The link is here because they
showcase some interesting writing such as: Erik Davis’ Figments. And to his
Technosis book! - Surfing on Finnegans Wake and Riding Range with Marshall McLuhan
Nice Tapes.
- Why Email Sucks (And How to Fix It) Jesse Berst, Editorial
Director ZDNet AnchorDesk - Try the *Other* Email Clients
Jon C.A. DeKeles, Technical Director ZDNet AnchorDesk
A list of many other clients and where to download them.
Email is the life blood for
the psyche in cyberspace. Both the articles focus simply on the *tools* but
the tools are important… see: - WRITING SPACE: The Computer, Hypertext, and the History of WritingJay Bolton
Reviewed by Stewart Brand.“His knowledge of how communication
forms have changed the world before leads him to anticipate how they are
about to again. The new forms are, literally, changing our minds.”
SB - faq-o-matic
A faq that can be
added to and altered by the user. Thanks Dan. A cleaner and simpler one, that
is easily amended by user input as well but via a human:XML
, thanks
Miles. - Computers By Russell Brown New Zealand Listener
Russell writes entertaining and insightful comments.
Comes out once per week, often before the hard copy. A good way to know when
there is a new one is to use Mind-it…. - Mind-it
Will send email
when things change out there. - Computing at Chaos Manor Jerry Pournelle
Jerry has had a column in Byte for 20 years and has been moved on. He’s
gone to the web and it is a sight to behold! For those who like to hear
about the wires and the chips and how Jerry approaches them it is a great
place to go. He is also a co-author of sci-fi, and sometimes writes about
how collaborates. Way back he might have been a psychologist as well.
Interesting how he is seeking subscriptions to his site, a very personal and
inviting approach! - Industrial Logic, Inc.
I
thought i’d send it here just because i like this site’s look and feel! Also
as a company, it’s presentation is inviting to me. -wl.
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