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Revision as of 13:22, 18 October 2023

“Many years ago, I dreamed that digital technology could greatly augment our collective human capabilities for dealing with complex, urgent problems."


(Doug Engelbart, "Title*, Byte, 1995)

We are enabling a paradigm shift

Because anything less than that is a waste of time.

And also because enabling the paradigm to shift has been identified as the most powerful way to intervene in delinquent systems—including our society; and also because our paradigm is ready to shift—because the evolution of knowledge demands it; and because the nature of our world necessitates it; and because the new information technology enables it.

Keywords enable us to see the world differently

They are custom-defined words; which allow us to give old words such as “information” and “culture” a distinct function and a new life. Keyword creation is a means to linguistic and institutional recycling.

Often but not always, keywords are adopted from the terminology of an academic field, cultural tradition or frontier thinker. They enable us to account for what’s been seen, experienced or comprehended; to ‘stand on the shoulders of giants’ and see further; to see things in new ways and see them whole.

“The task is nothing less than to build a new society and new institutions for it. With technology having become the most powerful change agent in our society, decisive battles will be won or lost by the measure of how seriously we take the challenge of restructuring the ‘joint systems’ of society and technology.”


(Erich Jantsch, Loooong title, MIT Report,1995)

Paradigm

We use this keyword in two ways: To point to a general order of things; where everything depends on everythuing else; and importantly—to its basic fractal-like structure; where small things reflect in their structure the large things and the paradigm as a whole.

And we use it more technically as Thomas Kuhn did; to point to

  • new way to conceive a domain of interest
  • which resolves the reported anomalies
  • and opens a creative frontier to research and development.

The domain of interest here is not a traditional academic field, where paradigm shifts have been (as Kuhn demonstrated) relatively common—but information and knowledge in general.


“Some years ago I was struck by the large number of falsehoods that I had accepted as true in my childhood, and by the highly doubtful nature of the whole edifice that I had subsequently based on them. I realized that it was necessary, once in the course of my life, to demolish everything completely and start again right from the foundations if I wanted to establish anything at all in the sciences that was stable and likely to last.”


(René Descartes, "Title*, Meditations on First Philosophy , 1641)

Logos

THE key keyword; on which ability to shift paradigms depends.



TITLE

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