User:KYPark/2004

Andrew Feenberg

Community in the Digital Age: Philosophy and Practice: with Darin Barney and Darin David Barney (eds.); Rowman & Littlefield.; ISBN 0742529592, 9780742529595; http://books.google.com/books?id=OhGZD9ItPKEC

Excerpts

"Toward Civic Intelligence: Building a New Sociotechnological Infrastructure" by Douglas Schuler: While what we call intelligence may be distributed in unequal amounts, it is the democratic faith that is sufficiently general so that each individual has something to contribute, and the value of each contribution can be assessed only as it entered into the final pooled intelligence constituted by the contributions of all. -- John Dewey (p. 263)

... I present some preliminary considerations for a new world brain or civic intelligence that is based on and addresses current social and technological realities. similar to the approach taken by Leibniz, Dewey, and Wells, I am proposing an approach that builds on the development and use of appropriate communication and information systems. Of course humankind's communication and information systems are currently undergoing massive changes at the global level. the civic intelligence challenge is to develop programs, applications, and policies that help shape this juggernaut into useful forms. We need to ask in what ways can connecting a huge and potentially unruly and fractious group of people from a multitude of cultures and life circumstances help society as a whole deal more effectively and equitably with probelms and other issues of shared concern. (p. 273)
Unfortunately, humankind's problems may be so profound, and our ability to respond so divided, unmotivated, and feeble, that attempts to deal with them are doomed to failure. "Grand schemes" such as Wells's World Encyclopedia, Dewey's Thought News, Kochen's WISE, and Jungk's Everyman Project, have periodically sprouted up, attracted a modest following, and then faded away, apparently without a trace. The proponents are likely to be dismissed as cranks by the media and by the conventional wisdom of the era; their schemes are generally utopian, overly ambitious, and, ultimately unrealistic. (p. 282)

Google and God's Mind: The problem is, information isn't knowledge.: Los Angeles Times, December 17, 2004 (COMMENTARY) [1]

Our Own Selves: More Meditations for Librarians (2005).
Our Enduring Values: Librarianship in the 21st Century (2000) won the ALA's 2001 Highsmith award for the best book on librarianship.
Future Libraries: Dreams, Madness, and Reality (1995 with Walt Crawford) was honored with the 1997 Blackwell’s Scholarship Award.

Axioms from Interactions of Actors: Kybernetes, vol. 33, no.9/10, pp. 1433-1455 (PDF)