{"id":5947,"date":"2011-11-15T10:09:26","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T04:15:52","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-11-15T10:15:52","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T04:15:52","slug":"the_network_economy_is_founded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/the_network_economy_is_founded\/","title":{"rendered":"The network economy is founded on technology&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8230;but can only be built on relationships. It starts with chips and ends with trust.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ultimately the worth of a technology is judged by how well it facilitates an increase in relational activity. VR pioneer Jaron Lanier has proposed <span class=\"nr-emphasis\">the Connection Test: Does a technology in question connect people together?<\/span> By his evaluation telephones are good technology, while TV is not. Birth control pills are, while nuclear power is not.<\/p>\n<p>By this measure, network technology is a great deal. It has the potential to link together all kinds of sentient beings in every imaginable way, and more. <span class=\"nr-highlight\">The imperative of the network economy is to maximize the unique talents of individual beings by means of their relationships with many others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>That means not being connected at times. Silence is often an appropriate response in a conversation. Privacy is often advantageous in a networked world. <span class=\"nr-emphasis-less\">The dimensions of relationship extend into not knowing as well as into the known.<\/span> It is one of many mysteries in the human condition that will be wired into the technologies of the network economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;but can only be built on relationships. It starts with chips and ends with trust. Ultimately the worth of a technology is judged by how well it facilitates an increase in relational activity. VR pioneer Jaron Lanier has proposed the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/the_network_economy_is_founded\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"1","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[205],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5947"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}