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Digital Enlightenment Terminology (3)

This is the third part of a three-part series The third term we would like to add to the growing dictionary of Digital Enlightenment is “self-regulation”. In cybernetics, systems that regulate themselves are widespread; in fact the Internet itself is … Weiterlesen

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How we wrote our book

Today I finished translating the book „Digital Enlightenment“ that I wrote together with my great friend Ossi Urchs. This is the text of the afterword, and I had to update it a little in account of the fact that Ossi … Weiterlesen

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Digital Enlightenment Terminology (2)

This is the second part of a three-part series A second key term in our new vocabulary of Digital Enlightenment is openness, which is closely related to but not identical with transparency, and admittedly there is a risk that less … Weiterlesen

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Digital Enlightenment Terminology (1): Transparency

This is the first of a three-part series Fundamental change doesn’t just „happen”, even in times of digitalization and networking. Masses of people will need to pitch in first in order to stir up social change. In the processe, they … Weiterlesen

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Doctrines are for dummies

As we enter the Age of Digital Enlightenment, an important question we need to ask ourselves is whether a networked society still needs monolithic, ideological constructs such as the notion of the nation state in order to function. The same … Weiterlesen

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Digital Particularism

Openness and transparency seem to be the natural enemies of politicians around the world. In Germany, following the revelations by Edward Snowdon that the NSA had been tapping the phone of chancellor Angela Merkel, her interior minister Hans-Peter Friedrichs told … Weiterlesen

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Politics in real time

The purest form of democracy is one in which every citizen casts his or her vote and the majority wins. In the Internet Age, at least theoretically, everyone in the world could participate in the democratic process which could be … Weiterlesen

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The fear of freedom

Historians of the 21st century may well date the beginning of Digital Enlightenment from the collapse of the Twin Towers in Manhattan which have had a truly earth-shaking effect, upsetting Western civilizations belief in one of our most basic human … Weiterlesen

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Information wants to be free (but not necessarily on the house)

It was the mantra, the rallying cry of an entire generation of early Internet users: “Information wants to be free”. First formulated back in 1984 by Steven Levy in his book Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, the sentence was … Weiterlesen

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In praise of distraction

Nothing enrages cultural pessimists more than when you tell them that multitasking is actually good for you! They think that doing more than one thing at once is a sign of degeneracy and that that kids are getting dumber due … Weiterlesen

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