Jag tar en sommarpaus från och med idag. Det kan hända att jag bryter mot den då och då, om jag ser något särskilt intressant, men annars får bloggen vila till augusti. Se upp för en låång påfyllning av länklistorna den 3 augusti den 10 augusti den 17 augusti den 24 eller 25 augusti den 31 augusti den 7 september den 14 september.
Twitter lär jag nog inte låta bli, däremot.
Och som en liten hyllning till den gröna bloggosfär jag nu promenerat i under snart tre år, vill jag peka på det här tjugotvå år gamla citatet av Howard Rheingold:
”It’s a bit like a neighborhood pub or coffee shop: I don’t have to move from my desk, there’s a certain sense of place to it. It’s a little like a salon, where I can participate in a hundred ongoing conversations with people who don’t care what I look like or sound like, but who do care how I think and communicate. And it’s a little like a group mind, where questions are answered, support is given, inspiration is provided, by people I may have never heard from before, and whom I may never meet face to face.”
Han skrev det alltså redan 1987, i en artikel i Whole Earth Review. Så här inledde han:
”BECAUSE I am a writer, I used to spend my days alone in my room with typewriter my words, and my thoughts. On occasion, I ventured outside to interview people or to find information. After work, I would reenter the human community, via my neighborhood, my lamity. My circle of personal and professional acquaintances, But I was isolated and lonely during the working day, and my work did not provide any opportunity to expand my circle of friends and colleagues.
For the past two years, however, I have participated in a wide-ranging, intellectually stimulating, professionally rewarding, and often intensely emotional exchange with dozens of new friends and hundreds of colleagues. And I still spend my days in a room, physically isolated. My mind, however, is linked with a worldwide collection of like-minded (and not-solike-minded) souls: my virtual community. If you get a computer and a modem, you can join us.”
Sedan citerade han själv J C R Licklider, en av dem som låg bakom ARPA-net, Internets föregångare:
”‘What will on-line interactive communities be like?’ Licklider wrote, in 1968 (!, mitt utropstecken): ‘In most fields they will consist of geographically separated Members, sometimes mes grouped in small clusters and sometimes Working individually, They will be Communities not of common location, but of Common interest . . . ‘ My friends and I are part of the future that Licklider dreamed about, and we can attest to the truth of his prediction that ‘life will be happier for the online individual because the people With whom one intracts most strongly will be Selected more by commonality of interests and goals than by accidents of proximity.’”
Och så tar vi det igen:
”It’s a bit like a neighborhood pub or coffee shop: I don’t have to move from my desk, there’s a certain sense of place to it. It’s a little like a salon, where I can participate in a hundred ongoing conversations with people who don’t care what I look like or sound like, but who do care how I think and communicate. And it’s a little like a group mind, where questions are answered, support is given, inspiration is provided, by people I may have never heard from before, and whom I may never meet face to face.”
Trevlig sommar!
Trevlig sommar själv!
Alltid lika intressant att läsa om framtidsskådare från det förflutna. Undrar om de hade kunnat föreställa sig facebook 1968 med allt vad det innebär? Trevlig sommar.
Hello, I found your blog from google. Really great blog. Best Regards