This document contains multiple short quotes and passages on a variety of topics including technology, humanity, censorship, collective existence, wisdom, vision, action, freedom, and family. It also includes credits for images and texts used under Creative Commons licenses.
Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side.
1. Don't approach a goat
from the front, a horse
from the back, or a fool
from any side.
bostonian
5:49:47, Mon Aug 20, 2012
2. “ I just invent, then wait
until man comes
around to needing
what I've invented. ”
—R. Buckminster Fuller
3. Good sex starts before the first touch and lingers
beyond the last.
· Let's just see if we can still force people to consume
music in the way that suits us better.
· Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the
wrong reasons.
· This ignorance has cost us billions already so let's stop
acting like we can control them or tell them what to do.
· Twenty-Nine years later in October Barrett Lyon
successfully completed his effort to provide an open
source map of the Internet.
5. Distracted by what is far away, he does not see his
nose.
· It has been difficult, however, for artists to truly express
the new information-phenomena.
· The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and
routes around it.
· But that was never their intention; their vagueness is not
an ideal, it is the ultimate degree of abstraction".
· This makes collective existence traceable in a way that
has not been possible before.
6. “ If we continue to
develop our
technology without
wisdom or prudence,
our servant may prove
to be our executioner. ”
—Omar N. Bradley
7. Vision with action is a daydream; action without
vision is a nightmare.
· How many really want to HEAR from the public and
show that they are open to conversation?
· But technology need not be understood purely as a
digital, electronic tool.
· This freedom rises into its own ethic above all other
political imperatives, and cultural logics.
· Not intelligence per se but an abstract 'life' none the
less.
8. In conclusion
· Seize e-business deliverables
· Deliver holistic interfaces
· Productize web-enabled ROI
· and remember: When you are ready to sacrifice all for
another, you have laid the foundation of family.
10. Credits
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Ben Grader, Daniel*1977, Julia Folsom,
· Fiction is Friction - Gerd Leonhard
amsfrank, the justified sinner
· The End of Control - Gerd Leonhard
· Music 2.0 - Gerd Leonhard
· New Aesthetic, New Anxieties - David M. Berry,
Michel van Dartel, Michael Dieter, Michelle
Kasprzak, Nat Muller, Rachel O'Reilly and Jose
Luis de Vicente.