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<p>We have also seen that each of the <em>five insights</em> is really a result of <em>federating</em> published more specific insights. And that our collective capability to do that now requires that "the relationship we have with information" be changed. That <em>this</em> is the natural leverage point to the large and comprehensive change, just as the case was in Galilei's time. Hence the second part of the <em>sixth insight</em> results.</p> | <p>We have also seen that each of the <em>five insights</em> is really a result of <em>federating</em> published more specific insights. And that our collective capability to do that now requires that "the relationship we have with information" be changed. That <em>this</em> is the natural leverage point to the large and comprehensive change, just as the case was in Galilei's time. Hence the second part of the <em>sixth insight</em> results.</p> | ||
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<p>The relationship we have with information is no longer in the hands of the Church, but of the university as institution, as the contemporary representative of the academic tradition. </p> | <p>The relationship we have with information is no longer in the hands of the Church, but of the university as institution, as the contemporary representative of the academic tradition. </p> | ||
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Revision as of 11:22, 14 August 2020
Holotopia
Imagine...
You are about to board a bus for a long night ride, when you notice the flickering streaks of light emanating from two wax candles, placed where the headlights of the bus are expected to be. Candles? As headlights?
Of course, the idea of candles as headlights is absurd. So why propose it?
Because on a much larger scale this absurdity has become reality.
The Modernity ideogram renders the essence of our contemporary situation by depicting our society as an accelerating bus without a steering wheel, and the way we look at the world, try to comprehend and handle it as guided by a pair of candle headlights.