A Space Without A Goal
Part II
Soon, no one will have any idea where you begin and end. Neither will you.
"Information is intrinsically sacrificial." - Jay Ogilvy.
The web is one thought. There are no missing links.
To be more connected to is to be more alive, more evolved, more of others.
Communion, not fusion, is an ideal.
The Web is simply a vehicle for thought. People are simply a vehicle for thought. As far as thought's concerned, it's the same.
What else explains coincidences except for the fact that everything is connected?
The size of the Web will not fit into the imagination. To think about it is to extend it.
Relate to yourself, through others.
Individuality is a pattern.
Whatever reality is, it's connected. Thought is what connects it.
If you can't understand an idea, see how it's connected.
The future is connected. Connect it. Make it.
What this is all about, is interconnectedness.
Right now, interconnectedness is blue and underlined. But the languages of interconnectedness will evolve very fast, very soon. To incorporate, for example, elements such as touch.
We exist by virtue of our context. But we are defined by our pattern.
Context and pattern: yin and yang.
The central act of the coming era is to connect head thought to web thought. Organic thought to made thought. Organic reality to made reality.
Evolution is intuitive.
When everything's connected, things make sense.
Ritual is simply an attempt to bridge the material and the sublime. Wittingly or not, to craft cyberspace is to engage in ritual.
Why this rush to the Web; to have a presence? Because, to be connected is the natural order of things. Interconnectedness is the natural order of things. The Web is a vacuum.
People are the most highly developed organic things because, of all creatures, we have had the biggest itch to connect. That's why we've been a primary vehicle for the evolution of consciousness. With the Web, we have quite outdone ourselves.
To be more connected to, is to be more evolved, more alive, more of others, more of ourselves. That is the hierachy of the Web.
Both good and bad patterns will propagate. There is no moral filter in the principle of interconnectedness, only in the choices we make. We are responsible.
The ego's about to get a long overdue asskicking.
The imagination is something we can share.
It's not important to maintain control if you aren't in control in the first place. Let go.
There isn't a full explanation. Allow for illusion.
Your web space is a creation engine.
This idea is staring at your mind.
The Web has an intrinsic capacity to go beyond what has gone before.
"Meaning is context bound, but context is boundless." - Jonathan Culler.
Web communion results in transformation. It creates the novel and emergent.
The Web: collective co-evolution in the eternal present.
Body modification is paradigmatic of accelerating efforts to connect the material and the sublime, the organic and the made. The body as symbol: the symbol as body. Expect to see lots more of it.
Ever wonder why some of the best cyberspace designers have jewelery in their faces? :-)
VRML, or an iteration of VRML, will win the 3-D war hands-down. Because it is hypertextual.
"A Nobel prize is waiting for the person who figures out the economics of information." - Jay Ogilvy.
Hypertextual = Connectable
The Web is the organic, made.
The Web is the most efficient mechanism for producing diversity, yet developed. It's where memes breed.
The Web is taking over from culture as the source of meaningfulness.
Destroy a connection and you destroy meaning after it.
There is no money to be made in information.
Think of a double-entendre as the same meaning hyperlinked from different directions.
Information economics is all about finding a reason to charge for something you have to give away.
This medium is entirely legitimate.
Cyberspace is part of the human condition.
"The illusion is that knowledge will defend you. It cannot." - William Laurin.
The Web is always much smaller than it will be.
The Web Era sets the seal on the death of the Age of Reason.
Media, until now, have constituted a social form of darkness.
The elites are losing control of the possession, use and control of knowledge. Knowledge will not be made private again.
Our problems stem largely from attempts to control. Let go.
Expertise is the institutionalization of Answers. The structure which has legitimized expertise is dying. The Web is killing it. The Web provides understanding: not expertise.
Do not judge the world through the media you have judged it so far. The Web provides a more appropriate view.
Dedicated to
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955)