{"id":35,"date":"2005-11-07T11:54:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-07T18:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gravity7.com\/blog\/media\/2005\/11\/civilization-and-its-mismaldiscontents.html"},"modified":"2005-11-07T11:54:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-07T18:54:00","slug":"civilization-and-its-mismaldiscontents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gravity7.com\/blog\/media\/2005\/11\/civilization-and-its-mismaldiscontents.html","title":{"rendered":"Civilization and its mis\/mal\/dis\/contents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Do not fold, spindle, or mutilate.&#8221; Remember that one? It was repurpased from computer manuals by students during late 60s protests (in Canada, I think) and became a tagline for the student protest movement. <\/p>\n<p>We are not information. And yet we produce and consume information in overwhelming quantities. Systems theory teaches that one of the functions of a system is information selection. Humans and systems use and select different kinds of information. Humans permit ambiguities; systems not. The ambiguities we deal with often relate to persons, their motives, personalities, relations, etc. That type of information, called &#8220;meaning&#8221; in the social sciences, is of a different kind than information-data insofar as it involves understanding reached between persons. Computers don&#8217;t have to understand each other in order to function properly. <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re laying down the basics of next generation web and internet protocols. The handling of persons is not the same as the handling of information. It&#8217;s not necessary to clear up ambiguities among people to make communication technologies efficient. It&#8217;ll be a challenge, though an interesting one, to see how we design web 2.0 and other social software and related protocols to handle persons. Not everything is Googleable.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Do not fold, spindle, or mutilate.&#8221; Remember that one? It was repurpased from computer manuals by students during late 60s protests (in Canada, I think) and became a tagline for the student protest movement. We are not information. And yet we produce and consume information in overwhelming quantities. Systems theory teaches that one of the&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[183],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gravity7.com\/blog\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gravity7.com\/blog\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gravity7.com\/blog\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gravity7.com\/blog\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gravity7.com\/blog\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gravity7.com\/blog\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gravity7.com\/blog\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gravity7.com\/blog\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gravity7.com\/blog\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}