Comments on: We think therefore we are http://www.theawesomeweb.co.uk/blog/we-think-therefore-we-are/ Registered in England and Wales. Company Number 6971536. © 2010 The Awesome Web Company. Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:06:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Paul Caplan http://www.theawesomeweb.co.uk/blog/we-think-therefore-we-are/comment-page-1/#comment-127 Paul Caplan Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:56:10 +0000 http://www.jenny-bee.net/2008/03/27/we-think-therefore-we-are/#comment-127 Sorry I missed you at the BL. My own more random and analog notes here [http://theinternationale.org/2008/03/27/anablog-270308-a-wethink-special/]. What got me was his complete lack of focus on technology. Very refreshing. It's the social shifts that are the real powerhouse. Technoologies are just making wethink easier. Sorry I missed you at the BL. My own more random and analog notes here [http://theinternationale.org/2008/03/27/anablog-270308-a-wethink-special/]. What got me was his complete lack of focus on technology. Very refreshing. It’s the social shifts that are the real powerhouse. Technoologies are just making wethink easier.

]]> By: Rob http://www.theawesomeweb.co.uk/blog/we-think-therefore-we-are/comment-page-1/#comment-126 Rob Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:43:26 +0000 http://www.jenny-bee.net/2008/03/27/we-think-therefore-we-are/#comment-126 > The technology behind the iPod > was developed around a century > ago (Me: eh?). The ipod design, at least, dates back about 50 years. Here's the ~1960 Braun T3 pocket radio against the Apple iPod: http://cache.gizmodo.com/assets/resources/2008/01/ipod-comp.jpg I liked Leadbeater's point that the leaders in existing networked collaborative projects tend to be quiet, self-effacing individuals. One individual that comes to mind as example of this is Matz, inventor of the Ruby programming language: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukihiro_Matsumoto > The technology behind the iPod
> was developed around a century
> ago (Me: eh?).

The ipod design, at least, dates back about 50 years. Here’s the ~1960 Braun T3 pocket radio against the Apple iPod:
http://cache.gizmodo.com/assets/resources/2008/01/ipod-comp.jpg

I liked Leadbeater’s point that the leaders in existing networked collaborative projects tend to be quiet, self-effacing individuals. One individual that comes to mind as example of this is Matz, inventor of the Ruby programming language: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukihiro_Matsumoto

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