Is Human Conscience a Demon? – YouTube

“Human consciousness is that faculty that confronts potential itself… What our consciousness seems to be for is to encounter those things that we have not yet encountered… Our consciousness is not for the past, it’s not even for the present, it’s to transform the future into the present.” ~Jordon Peterson (402) Is Human Conscience a

Quote sharing makes real

“The processes of recording and sharing help make things “real” by expanding their significance in our lives.” dana boyd [http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2009/07/26/obsessively_rec.html]

quote social infrastructure

Technology is the tool – the value is in social infrastructure. (unknown)

quote culture

The web isn’t democratic. Web culture is based on networks (Unknown source)

quote web

The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation… — Tim Berners-Lee, www creator via straight.com

quote opensource

Opensource is about democratised innovation, about creating value faster than via traditional models" – JP

quote sharing

Sharing makes the unpleasant endurable. – pesce 2008 (personal democracy forum)

MediaFuturist: The abbreviation of everything

I think the increasing shortening of people’s digital attention span, and the trends towards reading and writing quick blurbs and instant nuggets of wisdom (of which I am plenty guilty myself) will sooner or later spawn a trend back towards deeper reading and writing, just like the success of the console game GuitarHero has resulted