webphilo
DJ Patil pulls a 2-foot-long metal bar from his backpack. The contraption, which he calls a "double pendulum," is hinged in the middle, so it can fold in on itself. Another hinge on one end is attached to a clamp he secures to the edge of a table. "Now," he says, holding the bar vertically, at its top, "see if you can predict where this end will go." Then he releases it, and the bar begins to swing wildly, circling the spot where it is attached to the table, while also circling in on itself. There is no pattern, no way to predict where it will end up.
This Is Generation Flux: Meet The Pioneers Of The New (And Chaotic) Frontier Of Business
Dataware et économie de la contribution › Christian Fauré
Faisons un instant l’hypothèse que le web n’existe pas et nous comprendrons immédiatement que le moteur et le support d’une transformation vers une économie de la contribution manque.
I started this list of opposites to articulate the transition from our traditional economy to the knowledge economy.
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Web visionaries
O'Brien: The Influencers of Silicon Valley - San Jose Mercury Ne
The untimely death earlier this year of Rajeev Motwani, the Stanford professor who had advised Google's co-founders, unleashed an astonishing wave of tributes to this classic Influencer. Inspired by his example, I've been assembling my own list of The Influencers of Silicon Valley.
monde de flux #boyd
Par Hubert Guillaud le 06/01/10 | 25 commentaires | 10,496 lectures | Impression A la Web 2.0 Expo qui se tenait mi-novembre à New York , la sociologue danah boyd a, comme à son habitude, fait une brillante présentation sur les conséquences qu’il y a à vivre dans un monde de flux, notamment en commençant à en dresser la liste des limites.
André Gunthert : “Internet est une révolution de la consultation
Il y a 4 ans, nous rencontrions André Gunthert, directeur du Laboratoire d’histoire visuelle contemporaine (Lhivic) , pour évoquer avec lui la révolution Flickr .
The study of social networks has thrown up more than a few surprises over the years. It’s easy to imagine that because the links that form between various individuals in a society are not governed by any overarching rules, they must have a random structure. So the discovery in the 1980s that social networks are very different came as something of a surprise.
Technology Review: Blogs: arXiv blog: Best Connected Individuals
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net neutrality
Dawn of a New Day « Ray Ozzie
To: Executive Staff and direct reports Date: October 28, 2010 From: Ray Ozzie Subject: Dawn of a New Day
12 juin 2009 - Paris - Voyage au coeur de l'intelligence collective globale Séminaire donné par Jean-François Noubel , fondateur de TheTransitioner.org.
12 juin 2009 - Paris - Voyage au coeur de l'intelligence collect
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