Me, Dave and Lucas got our butts to the talk quite late yesterday. And were hit by the instant heatwave in the ICA's Nash room. Goodness me, has no one ever heard of opening a window or a door before?
Anyway the talk was around douglas rushkoff's book he wrote for Demos. I had never heard of Demos before, but sure have heard of Douglas Rushkoff from the days of Rave.Anyway here's a few things I wrote down while listening to the talk.
- The internet shook off miltary, government and now business constraints over its time.
- All developments of the internet have been done for non profit in a gift economy.
- Our reality relies on software more than hardware – clever, as in software is man made.
- We can write the words that we live. Rather than listen to the ones we have been told.
- We have been taught to deal with narratives in the same way, start – middle – end. Revolutions are circluar.
- recruitiing people to narratives, is pointless
- Technophobia = People scared of there own power
- The media aims to exclude and divide, a lonely person is more likely to buy jeans if there told there acceptable with them.
- 92% of kids don’t want to re-program lego mindstorms
- A movement is a bad idea, easy target for the media to vilianfy
- Media can’t brand a mixture a non-movement.
- Emergence accepts the possibility that were nothing and that we may change that
- Effort should be spent on development rather than creating a movement
- Changing direction causes confusion and keeps businesses and the media guessing
- Courage in the moment, small steps and tweaks have profound effects
- Do rather than respond
- The dot.com era was a pyramid scheme – never thought of it like that, but makes sense
- Is google god?
- Finland is the most trustworthy nation in the world
- Governments need to get a grip on the digital divide
- Once you have access to the tools your relationship with the narrative changes
Anyway I've started reading the book which rushkoff wrote and its a good read so far. Also started looking at the Demos site and Rushkoff's own. Some good content on there which I know I'll be reading back and forth between college and home for the next month or so.
