Subj : Re: Book: iMaGoLoGieS
To   : osito
From : Ogg
Date : Thu Oct 26 2023 08:27:00

Hello osito!

** On Wednesday 25.10.23 - 18:22, osito wrote to All:

> I read this book Imagologies published in 1994. Its about two
> professors of philosophy who link their classes via tele-
> conference technology. One classroom is in the US, and the
> other is in Finland. They write about the technologies as
> they use them, and how the new media technologies are going
> to revolutionize the world. You can feel the excitement and
> their hope for the future in their words.

[..]

> Censorship is the polar opposite of what the early pioneers
> dreamt of..

So.. the book misses the notion of tracking and monetizating of  
people's activities?

Any discussion/vision about encryption and privacy in the book?


> So I just want to say, centralization is bad, we should all
> host our own googles, youtubes, emails and twitters.

Ever hear of Nicholas Negroponte? He put out a book in 1995:

Being Digital (1995), which made famous his forecasts on how  
the interactive world, the entertainment world and the  
information world would eventually merge.

Personally, there are a some elements in the book that  
Negroponte got wrong. But the biggest takeaway that he got  
right was that data usage would be data-metered and charged;  
that in it itself does not seem extraordinary, because the more  
you use the more you pay would be seem obvious, but it was  
around the time when I was supporting grassroots networks and  
systems like BBSes. Compuserve was already a very expensive  
time-metered system.

Thanks for the headsup on Imagologies.  I am compelled to look  
it up and check it out.

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