Difference between revisions of "Holotopia"

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Modernity needs lightbulbs, not candles

In 1990, at the time when Tim Berners Lee was writing the code for the World Wide Web, the NYU researcher in communication Neil Postman was warning us that too much information can lead to a most alarming situation—meaninglessness.

What if we handled information as we handle most other human-made things—if we adapted it to the core purposes that need to be served? Imagine a human world where XXXX providing Such as providing correct meaning. What would this information be like? In what way would it be created? What consequences would it have?

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+<p>What if we handled information as we handle most other human-made things—if we adapted it to the core purposes that need to be served? Imagine a human world where XXXX providing  Such as providing <em>correct</em> meaning. What would this information be like? In what way would it be created? What consequences would it have?</p>
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