{"id":3368,"date":"2008-11-25T11:23:20","date_gmt":"2008-11-25T05:23:22","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-11-25T11:23:26","modified_gmt":"2008-11-25T05:23:26","slug":"loosely-joined-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/kevinkelly\/loosely-joined-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Loosely Joined Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nWhile at the Web 2.0 conference I was musing aloud on ways in which our web culture encourages new attitudes toward social-isms. We are constructing Socialism 2.0, I joked. Joshua Ross of O&#8217;Reilly media filmed the conversation, which he has edited, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qIe124iPTrU\">uploaded<\/a>.&#160; Other topics covered in this rambling encounter: the thin line between the wisdom of the hive mind and stupidity of the mob; the difference defaults make; what technology wants; how technological evolution differs from biological evolution, and living in an always-on society.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n(One correction: I said there were more people making arrowheads now than in Indian days, but what I meant to say, was that more arrowheads were made now than back then. Contemporary flint knappers churn out many more arrowheads than they&#160; use, or than any hunter would ever use.)\n<\/p>\n<p>\nNote: Lots of disjointed thoughts loosely joined.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/qIe124iPTrU&#38;hl=en&#38;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/qIe124iPTrU&#38;hl=en&#38;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While at the Web 2.0 conference I was musing aloud on ways in which our web culture encourages new attitudes toward social-isms. We are constructing Socialism 2.0, I joked. Joshua Ross of O&#8217;Reilly media filmed the conversation, which he has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/kevinkelly\/loosely-joined-thoughts\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[167],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/kevinkelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/kevinkelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/kevinkelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/kevinkelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/kevinkelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/kevinkelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/kevinkelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/kevinkelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/kevinkelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}