Comments on: Steven Johnson, Consilience defeats miasma http://blog.longnow.org/2007/05/15/steven-johnson-consilience-defeats-miasma/ The Official Weblog of The Long Now Foundation and Friends Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:11:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: Hört om Svansen via tunn Frihet till komplex Zoom | weconverse http://blog.longnow.org/2007/05/15/steven-johnson-consilience-defeats-miasma/#comment-3473 Hört om Svansen via tunn Frihet till komplex Zoom | weconverse Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:33:52 +0000 http://blog.longnow.org/2007/05/15/steven-johnson-consilience-defeats-miasma/#comment-3473 [...] Johnson (ni vet, han med “multiple threadings” och komplexa TV-program) om “The Long Zoom” (11 maj 2007). Otroligt spännande presentation och efterföljande frågestund. Speciellt [...] […] Johnson (ni vet, han med “multiple threadings” och komplexa TV-program) om “The Long Zoom” (11 maj 2007). Otroligt spännande presentation och efterföljande frågestund. Speciellt […]

]]> By: Michael Shook http://blog.longnow.org/2007/05/15/steven-johnson-consilience-defeats-miasma/#comment-3175 Michael Shook Sun, 23 Dec 2007 00:37:29 +0000 http://blog.longnow.org/2007/05/15/steven-johnson-consilience-defeats-miasma/#comment-3175 Related Media: <a href="http://beagle.monkeybrains.net/longnow/salt-recordings/salt-020070511-johnson/salt-020070511-johnson-web.ogg" rel="nofollow">Vorbis</a> or <a href="http://beagle.monkeybrains.net/longnow/salt-recordings/salt-020070511-johnson/salt-020070511-johnson-web.mp3" rel="nofollow">MP3</a> Related Media: Vorbis or MP3

]]> By: Blogos - God’s Word | our words | meaning, communication, & technology | following Jesus, the Word made flesh » OpenBible.Info and the Long Zoom http://blog.longnow.org/2007/05/15/steven-johnson-consilience-defeats-miasma/#comment-2739 Blogos - God’s Word | our words | meaning, communication, & technology | following Jesus, the Word made flesh » OpenBible.Info and the Long Zoom Sat, 13 Oct 2007 17:00:09 +0000 http://blog.longnow.org/2007/05/15/steven-johnson-consilience-defeats-miasma/#comment-2739 [...] NY Times article with the phrase “Long Zoom.” I first came across it listening to his talk at the Long Now Seminar (MP3), which (zooming farther back) i started following after reading Stewart Brand’s Clock [...] […] NY Times article with the phrase “Long Zoom.” I first came across it listening to his talk at the Long Now Seminar (MP3), which (zooming farther back) i started following after reading Stewart Brand’s Clock […]

]]> By: Matt http://blog.longnow.org/2007/05/15/steven-johnson-consilience-defeats-miasma/#comment-898 Matt Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:58:13 +0000 http://blog.longnow.org/2007/05/15/steven-johnson-consilience-defeats-miasma/#comment-898 Thinking about 'seeking circuitry', (which seems to be a twist on pattern finding) and 'the regime of competence.', is it any wonder we see the rise of the search engine as an enabler. If the sweet spot is 'I think I can solve this, so I will try', then clearly being able to Google for information is going to have a profound impact, compared to the yesteryear activity of going to the library. ---- Stephen clearly has broad interests and talents, talks about consilience, how fitting. Thinking about ’seeking circuitry’, (which seems to be a twist on pattern finding) and ‘the regime of competence.’, is it any wonder we see the rise of the search engine as an enabler.

If the sweet spot is ‘I think I can solve this, so I will try’, then clearly being able to Google for information is going to have a profound impact, compared to the yesteryear activity of going to the library.

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Stephen clearly has broad interests and talents, talks about consilience, how fitting.

]]> By: Margeigh Novotny http://blog.longnow.org/2007/05/15/steven-johnson-consilience-defeats-miasma/#comment-545 Margeigh Novotny Wed, 30 May 2007 16:31:43 +0000 http://blog.longnow.org/2007/05/15/steven-johnson-consilience-defeats-miasma/#comment-545 PS: DeZengotita's ideas would be an excellent Long Now seminar as well. PS: DeZengotita’s ideas would be an excellent Long Now seminar as well.

]]> By: Margeigh Novotny http://blog.longnow.org/2007/05/15/steven-johnson-consilience-defeats-miasma/#comment-544 Margeigh Novotny Wed, 30 May 2007 16:29:19 +0000 http://blog.longnow.org/2007/05/15/steven-johnson-consilience-defeats-miasma/#comment-544 In response to Johnson's assertion that we are, with each successive generation, able to process more information streams simultaneously someone in the audience asked whether he thought there was any (physiological) limit to this? Cultural anthropologist Thomas DeZengotita elaborates on this theme in his book "Mediated". He picks up where McLuhan left off and talks about the overall "thinning" of experience that is happening as a result of our need to process more and more information over the course of a day. In response to Johnson’s assertion that we are, with each successive generation, able to process more information streams simultaneously someone in the audience asked whether he thought there was any (physiological) limit to this? Cultural anthropologist Thomas DeZengotita elaborates on this theme in his book “Mediated”. He picks up where McLuhan left off and talks about the overall “thinning” of experience that is happening as a result of our need to process more and more information over the course of a day.

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