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at least it’s an ethos This viddie is a rather boring demonstration of Wolfram Alpha. It does basically what it has claimed to be able to do: it can process data in a variety of domains, answer queries in natural language that pertain to the data, and present answers and other relevant or useful information in [...] The eventual theoretical foundation of Internet Studies ™ combines the collapse of ontology with an integrated and consistent set of nudges and an active and self-sustaining community of spimes. Let’s call these the Three Pillars of the Internet Age. These pillars are bound together by what I will call a participatory framework. Internet studies differ [...] This is really old in internet time, but I just watched it now and it is definitely worth it. David Weinberger is a philosopher by training, and tells basically the same Aristotle to Heidegger story I tell in my own class. See also: Ontology is Overrated and Information R/Evolution. Coming up: The Three Pillars of [...] |
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