Re:How the Web Became Our ‘External Brain,’ and What It Mean...
by walterbell on Wednesday August 06, 2014 @09:15PM
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Note that evolution depends on random mutations.
What's the techno-environmental equivalent to random mutations? Remix culture, open-source software, fan fiction, fair use, cross-corporate IP licensing, emergent outcomes of search engine SEO and Google's top ten revenue categories?
If we are going to expose children to technology, should we expose them to open-ended technology with many degrees of freedom and possible innovation, or walled gardens/devices with a limited menu of pre-approved operations?
What's the techno-environmental equivalent to random mutations? Remix culture, open-source software, fan fiction, fair use, cross-corporate IP licensing, emergent outcomes of search engine SEO and Google's top ten revenue categories?
If we are going to expose children to technology, should we expose them to open-ended technology with many degrees of freedom and possible innovation, or walled gardens/devices with a limited menu of pre-approved operations?