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NPF551INTERACTIVITY AND NETWORKING
Lecture 1: Interactivity and Networking?
INTERACTIVITY IS THE STUFF OF LIFE
Interaction is at the basis of all systems, biologic or mechanical.
NETWORKING IS AS OLD AS WE ARE
Example: Twitter and cavemen
Interactivity and networking are intertwined
SMALL SYNTHETIC WORKERS Examples: Genetic Interaction has led to
creating microbes worker and nano groups
SOCIAL MACHINES
SYNTHETIC INTELLIGENCE
SOME FORMS OF INTELLIGENCE BECOME COLLECTIVE
Connective Intelligence (de Kerckhove)
Collective Intelligence (Levy)
SwarmsSmart MobsCommons
THE NEAR FUTURE IS HERE …
EMBODIED LIFE
BUT TOWARDS WHAT REALITY?
DIFFERENT PHILOSOPHIES FOR DIFFERENT MEDIA ECOLOGIES
MCLUHAN New Media = "extensions" of our
human senses, bodies and minds, which will form large media ecologies (McLuhan, 1964).
These ecologies would become Mediated Public Spheres enabled the public to become actors of social change.
He believed that the wide adoption of these new media would participate in major changes in how “man” viewed the world and would eventually lead humans to find a new type of spirituality based on a technological collective consciousness (Teall and Carpenter, 2001).
WELCOME TO THE HYBRID AGE
WELCOME TO FNP551 An exploration of our present interactivity
and networking ecologies at the beginning of the hybrid age
