Steven Berlin Johnson is an author and one of the "founders" of the technorealism movement. He has written several books that look into the mind/tech areas, Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life, is one of his latest. His first book was on technology and communication. His essay on why The Web is like a Rainforest is here. His essay, Emerging Technologies, about the power of grassroots when partnered with the new media is a relevant read when thinking about how the Santa Fe New Mexican is allowing conversations with readers to happen. "Ordinary people can solve communications problems much quicker than clueless government officials," the headline reads. It was written for Discover magazine December '05.
His Urban Long Tail essay is here- (if you go to the latter site you can see an example of how spammers are jamming the blog sites) and it applies the long tail to cities. Johnson posted this informative piece about a Los Alamos laboratory simulation of bird flu here. His website is here.
The Katrina/Rita hurricanes were the big writing-on-the-wall events that demonstrated the power of the new online tools and how they work. The online readership of news and information began a huge shift last fall and '06 is predicted t0 be the tipping point. How all of the shift to online thinking and working will affect us will be a huge field to study. YouTube now bigger than Flickr?
Inspiration, creativity and receptivity...here's an interesting Crossroads Dispatch on being present and receptive. How to be open to change?
How this is all changing us... mind and matters to ponder.
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