[IP] Re: The "Social Nervous System"

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Esther Dyson <edyson@edventure.com>
Date: March 13, 2009 2:34:03 AM EDT
To: dave@farber.net
Subject: Re: [IP] Re:   The "Social Nervous System"

I would say our biggest problem is implicitly thinking of it as a  
nervous system, with a central brain and remote controls, when we  
really should be looking at it as an organism with local autonomy and  
an immune system to keep it healthy.

At 01:39 PM 3/12/2009, David Farber wrote:


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> From: Scott Brim <swb@employees.org>
> Date: March 12, 2009 1:04:43 PM EDT
> To: David Farber <dave@farber.net>
> Cc: ip <ip@v2.listbox.com>
> Subject: Re: [IP] The "Social Nervous System"
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> I quote Arthur C. Clarke out of context:
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> "What we are building now is the nervous system of mankind, which
> will link together the whole human race, for better or worse, in a
> unity which no earlier age could have imagined."
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> - Arthur C. Clarke, "The Social Consequences of Communications
> Satellites," paper presented at the 12th International Astronautical
> Congress, Washington, DC, 1961, and published in Arthur C. Clarke,
> Voices from the Sky: Previews of the Coming Space Age (New York:
> Harper & Row, 1965), p. 139.
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