Speaking of focussing it, if you have the patience, here is my long chapter on what attention is, (if I haven't given it to you previously).
Sunday, April 26, 2009
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Michael H. Goldhaber, presenter
Hi. Welcome to this OLLI course.
About Me
- Michael H. Goldhaber
- I've been interested in and writing on Internet-related issues since well before there was a worldwide web, starting with an attempt to understand what I then termed "micro-electronic networks" and then the "information economy." By the late eighties I had realized that what is scarce is less information than attention, and began to focus on "the attention economy," a term I coined, though others have used it later with a narrower meaning. See "The Attention Economy and the Net" http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/519/440 Another long-held interest of mine is human consciousness and how it changes. That led to my 2004 article "The mentality of Homo interneticus: Some Ongian postulates" http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/1155/1075 I have a blog http://goldhaber.org and a small consulting business http://mhgoldhaber.com
Here is a connection to the PEW research on the future of the internet. Donn Downing
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Zygmunt Bauman a Polish born intellectual at the University of Leeds has an interesting approach to Homointerneticus. Google on "Exit Homo Politicus"+Bauman for his article "Exit Homo Politicus, Enter Homo Consumens" . It is long, I fear, 20 pages but worth a look. Its the end of democracy as we know it, he thinks. Donn Downing
ReplyDeleteIf you Google on Susan Greenfield, an Oxford Professor of Neuroscience, you will see a video of a talk she gave recently on the plasticity of the human brain which would have been useful in our recent course. It relates to what makes us human. Donn Downing
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