[Air-l] we need a new word? (Intern)

[Laurent Straskraba]

Yes, one thing is the technological basis, the other thing is the use of it 
- and these two areas are interrelated with each other.

Anything is possible as long as it's connecting devices (and users) on a 
decentralized basis. It depends on *you* what to do with it, i.e. 
communicating, sharing, organizing, testing, etc. So it can be cmc, p2p, a 
tool to find any kind of information (things you would and also you 
wouldn't like to know about), and furthermore.

Just as a reminder:
It was in 1964, when Paul Baran introduced his work on "distributed 
communications". That's were it started to become reality.
http://www.rand.org/publications/RM/RM3420/RM3420.chapter1.html

BTW, the graphic there is quite good also to understand the shift within 
societies from centralized to de-centralized to (more or less) 
participatory ones. So, technology is influencing the shaping of society 
and also the other way round.

Best,
Laurent


At 14:07 20.03.2005, you wrote:
>many of the descriptions so far take 'communication' as a the noun, and 
>while this is fine for some descriptions of some events, it tends to leave 
>out much of the rest of the ecological systems that these in
>which these technics are enmeshed.  the objects that barry brought up, 
>were systems and technologies, onto which communication can be mapped, 
>onto which media can be mapped, but I think it should be very obvious that 
>when we are talking about their whole existence, from their origination to 
>their use, that not every part of that will be mapped by communication 
>and/or media.  most, but perhaps not all of their human use could be said 
>to be communication, but... what about installation, and interface, they 
>seem to be mediated experiences that don't always pertain directly to 
>communication, and while they might be mediated by speaker or screen, that 
>mediation might not encapsulate the whole social imaginary that affects 
>the world in which they are used.
>
>the internet is the general network we study, which is a network of 
>networks, built on the principle that information can be encapsulated in 
>packets, and routed by defining the endpoint, thus allowing the computers 
>or relevant technologies to communicate.  computers and technologies have 
>devices that mediate the information that they receive into user 
>accessible experiences.  this is true insofaras I can determine, so 
>internet technologies will always be information technologies, mediated 
>technologies, and communication technologies in some respect.  however, 
>the technologies exist through society, and individuals, both simplisticly 
>as objects, but also in much more complicated ways, that affect our lives, 
>cultures, etc. -- our mental ecology, our social ecology, and our 
>environmental ecology.
>
>so, that's why I use "ICT" and then describe what I'm talking about 
>further should the need arise.
>On Mar 20, 2005, at 4:05 AM, richard-seyler.ling at telenor.com wrote:
>
>Jeremy Hunsinger
>Center for Digital Discourse and Culture
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