This is so relevant to several recent MISTICA discussions
that I just had to pass it along! :)

Katherine

>Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 11:41:19 +0200
>From: Soenke Zehle <s.zehle@kein.org>
>Subject: <incom> Lanier, The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism
>To: incom <incom-l@incommunicado.info>

>Remember C. P. Snow, his 1964 vision of a 'third culture' (humanities
meet >natural sciences), and John Brockman's attempt of bringing it all
together >with the digerati on THE EDGE? Latest in a series, this one is
suggesting >that "it's time to speak out against the collectivity fad
>that is upon us ... The best guiding principle is to always cherish
>individuals first", hmm, sobering realism meets fear of the multitude?
>Soenke
>
>DIGITAL MAOISM:
>The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism [5.30.06]
>By Jaron Lanier
>
>An Edge Original Essay
> <http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge183.html>
>
>Introduction
>
>In "Digital Maosim", an original essay written for Edge, computer
>scientist and digital visionary Jaron Lanier finds fault with what he
>terms the new online collectivism. He cites as an example the Wikipedia,
>noting that "reading a Wikipedia entry is like reading the bible
>closely. There are faint traces of the voices of various anonymous
>authors and editors, though it is impossible to be sure".
>

ver artículo completo en:
<http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge183.html>
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