Allowed to Want again
We ‘Want’ Again
The parallel shift in cooperation I mentioned at the previous chapter, begun in the very recent history with the development of Internet based communication, cooperation moved into Cyberspace. (The term was coined William Gibson in his science fiction book the Neuromancer in 1984.)
“The idea of a computer network intended to allow general communication between users of various computers has developed through a large number of stages. The melting pot of developments brought together the network of networks that we know as the Internet. This included both technological developments, as well as the merging together of existing network infrastructure and Telecommunication systems. The earliest versions of these ideas appeared in the late 1950s. Practical implementations of the concepts began during the late 1960s and 1970s. By the 1980s, technologies we would now recognise as the basis of the modern Internet began to spread over the globe. In the 1990s the introduction of the World Wide Web saw use become commonplace.”
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet)
In Cyberspace there is a different, virtual reality where people seem “Want ” to cooperate again. This parallel, I feel is to be significant in the future of humanity.
Internet is what enables us to interact with each other in cyberspace. I have established six principles of the ‘Want To’ type of cooperation. There are perhaps more and there are many sub categories. There are two reasons for sticking to this number; one is that these six are the crucial foundation blocks of the human interrelations in Cyberspace. The other is that six is within our channel capacity. This is a concept in cognitive psychology that indicates the amount of information our brain can store. The six principles are Freedom, Trust, Symbiosis, Open Source, Knowledge Economy and Emergent Democracy. These can be viewed as a pyramid that works best when it is in the same time inverted.
Emergent Democracy is based on Knowledge Economy that can only operate successfully on the basis of Symbiotic relationships. The necessary Freedom to make this workable was enabled by the inclusive nature of cyberspace and it's lack of geographical or cultural confines. But also on our inherent ability to trust. Most people want to trust and be trusted and willing to give this credit to others, but most importantly it is what people desire, ‘Want’ to do.
The parallel shift in cooperation I mentioned at the previous chapter, begun in the very recent history with the development of Internet based communication, cooperation moved into Cyberspace. (The term was coined William Gibson in his science fiction book the Neuromancer in 1984.)
“The idea of a computer network intended to allow general communication between users of various computers has developed through a large number of stages. The melting pot of developments brought together the network of networks that we know as the Internet. This included both technological developments, as well as the merging together of existing network infrastructure and Telecommunication systems. The earliest versions of these ideas appeared in the late 1950s. Practical implementations of the concepts began during the late 1960s and 1970s. By the 1980s, technologies we would now recognise as the basis of the modern Internet began to spread over the globe. In the 1990s the introduction of the World Wide Web saw use become commonplace.”
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet)
In Cyberspace there is a different, virtual reality where people seem “Want ” to cooperate again. This parallel, I feel is to be significant in the future of humanity.
Internet is what enables us to interact with each other in cyberspace. I have established six principles of the ‘Want To’ type of cooperation. There are perhaps more and there are many sub categories. There are two reasons for sticking to this number; one is that these six are the crucial foundation blocks of the human interrelations in Cyberspace. The other is that six is within our channel capacity. This is a concept in cognitive psychology that indicates the amount of information our brain can store. The six principles are Freedom, Trust, Symbiosis, Open Source, Knowledge Economy and Emergent Democracy. These can be viewed as a pyramid that works best when it is in the same time inverted.
Emergent Democracy is based on Knowledge Economy that can only operate successfully on the basis of Symbiotic relationships. The necessary Freedom to make this workable was enabled by the inclusive nature of cyberspace and it's lack of geographical or cultural confines. But also on our inherent ability to trust. Most people want to trust and be trusted and willing to give this credit to others, but most importantly it is what people desire, ‘Want’ to do.
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