From: natashavita@earthlink.net
Date: Thu Jan 09 2003 - 10:44:22 MST
From: Reason reason@exratio.com
--> Max M
> Reason wrote:
>
> > So I think that some form of technological community
> integration tool would
> > be very beneficial to the transhuman community at this time.
> The integration
> > between ExI boards and mailing lists is a first step in that
> direction, from
> > a technology point of view. What I have in mind would be
> something of the
> > "all places are one place" ilk:
>
> I think it would be a terrific idea to have one big >H site, with news
> and articles, that we all coorporate on. And if such a site will come
> into existence I am willing to support it.
>
> But I am afraid that it is a doomed idea to make one site to cover it
> all. We are all very much individualists, and so want to do our own
> thing our own way. So we all want to be site owners.
>Exactly. My suggestion was not for one big >H site -- there is no central
repository in the plan, just a central clearing house with no associated
site. My suggestion is a way for everyone to be able to build their own
individual sites, and still have the big >H community output on that site.
So every new site can do its own thing and still incrementally add community
to the whole.<
_________________
I tend to agree with Max M and Reason. Since there is no central
authorization or umbrella for transhumanity, a tendancy for a weak
repository of info happens.
ExI could easily cultivate a link-a-link directory of virtual and real time
locations for transhumanists, seminars, university courses, etc. Its
data/design would be open source and easily duplicated and disbursed on
other sites.
However - "all places are one place" is far to collectivist for me and I
don't think that would work. Rather, a better freeway design than what we
have now which are the basic net search engines. I like Kurtzweil's site
design and I've asked Max if we can do something similar in regards to
transhumanist areas of interest. I'll ask Amara about it as well.
>In any case, articles are not the subject. I'm really talking about fusing
the disparate and separated transhumanist and pro-transhumanist online
communities into a closer configuration, allowing greater cross-pollination.
It is from community that things emerge, not from the posting of articles
(writing and posting articles is something that emerges from community, like
leaders, and new sites). So the content I'm talking about is e-mail, chat,
forum postings.<
________
Yes.
>The "big technical solution" I am referring to is pretty much the same
thing
as "create some xml schemas so that the process can be automated." It's not
a hugely onerous or complex piece of work, given the initial goals.<
________
Yup.
Natasha
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