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Digital Revelation
By Richard Thieme
“Context determines content. So too with sacred space.
Whether or not God exists, the mental artifacts we relate to transcendence do – call these symbols “gods.” Though we can’t say how the digital revolution will affect God, we can say how it might impact our gods.
Look at previous shifts in communications technology. The gods worshiped in ancient oral communities vanished when their names were no longer invoked. It is no coincidence that the persons at the center of major contemporary religions – Moses, Jesus, Lao-tzu, Buddha – arose along with the emergence of writing. The invention of the printing press further extended the reach of these new, textual gods. Print enlarged the vocabulary of the community, and people could see themselves with greater subtlety. The gods, consequently, grew more subtle as well.
Now digital media are generating digital gods.
Digital gods are distributed deities, verbs and modifiers rather than nouns. ”
Id�es Fortes were the best thing about WiReD in the old days.
The Leadership Challenge by Kouzes and Posner
Contents: The difference between managers and leaders, say the authors, is like night and day. Managers like stability, control through systems, and procedures. Passion and involvement don’t fit into their thinking. Leaders thrive on change, inspiration, passion, listening and equipping.
1. When Leaders Are at Their Best: Five Practices and Ten Commitments
2. What Followers Expect of Their Leaders: Knowing the Other Half of the Story
3. Search for Opportunities: Confronting and Changing the Status Quo
4. Experiment and Take Risks: Learning from Mistakes and Successes
5. Envision the Future: Imagining Ideal Scenarios
6. Enlist Others: Attracting People to Common Purposes
7. Foster Collaboration: Getting People to Work Together
8. Strengthen Others: Sharing Power and Information
9. Set the Example: Leading by Doing
10. Plan Small Wins: Building Commitment to Action
11. Recognize Contributions: Linking Rewards with Performance
12. Celebrate Accomplishments: Valuing the Victories
13. Become a Leader Who Cares and Makes a Difference
The Leadership Challenge by James M. Kouzes & Barry Z. Posner
(San Francisco CA: Jossey-Bass, 1987) ISBN # 155542211X
Beyond the Scientific Revolution — by John Brockman
An interesting series of chapters – discussed by interesting people.
Lingua Franca | Breakthrough Books
The History of Reading
We asked five scholars to recommend the best books about reading.
Interesting. For example:
Kathleen E. Welch, professor of English at the University of Oklahoma and author of (MIT, 1999).
“In Cyberliteracy: Navigating the Internet With Awareness (Yale, forthcoming), Laura J. Gurak analyzes the Internet’s four main functional components: speed, reach, anonymity, and interactivity. She uses examples from a number of Web sites to demonstrate how readers now step ‘through the screen.’ Another important book on the history of reading, Andrea Lunsford and Lisa Ede’s (Southern Illinois, 1990), predatedand in fact predictedmuch of the collaborative reading and writing that now occurs in cyberspace.”
by Ken Goldberg (Editor)
“Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
It may be trite to say that new technology changes the way we see ourselves and the world, but it’s crucial that we explore those changes fully. In The Robot in the Garden, computer scientist Ken Goldberg curates a collection of essays on telerobotics by critics, philosophers, and engineers, addressing questions as fundamental as, “How does mediation affect the knowledge we acquire?”
Durlacher: Creating Community Online
The other one Aldon mentioned.
washingtonpost.com: Bearing Gifts, They Come From Afar
“A gift economy is indeed an economy — you can rationally expect that if you tender a gift, sooner or later you will receive some kind of return.
“But the return is indirect. And expectation of a return can be idealistic, even mystical.”
One of the two articles mentioned by Aldon in Psyber-l
Understanding The Voluntary Simplicity “Movement” – The Simple Living Network
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I wanted to live deep and suck all the marrow of life…. � Henry David Thoreau, author of Walden