Re: post-renaissance terminology

From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Tue Feb 01 2000 - 12:34:33 MST


"Matthew Gream" <matthew.gream@pobox.com> writes:

> If the middle ages can be referred to as a 'god centered' view of the world,
> and the renaissance can be referred to as a 'human centered' view of the
> world, then what term is used to describe emerging phase of society ?

Maybe the network centered view of the world? The neural networks, the
Internet, the ecological networks, the nets of nets? There is no
center, but a lot of interaction.

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