Michael H. Goldhaber's Site
Last revised
5/6/2006
Note: This site is in
process of updating, so this is a temporary, partially improved and updated
version
The
entries below may be drafts, rough sketches, outlines or more finished words.,
starting with the most recent
The Real Nature of the Emerging
Attention Economy talk at E-tech conference on the
Attention Economy, March 8, 2006,
A
Coloringbook Theory of Modern War in Kritikos, February 2005
The
mentality of Homo interneticus:
Some Ongian postulates First Monday, volume 9, number 6 (June 2004)
Draft
on Values, Technology,
the Internet, and a New Opening for Humane Socialism September 15, 2003
My
talk at e-Vision in Wellington, NZ:
Aotearoa-New
Zealand in the Global Attention Economy"
March
2002
My
thoughts on TERRORISM and HOMELAND SECURITY
My
work on the NAPSTER WARS
My Columns in Telepolis (search ³Goldhaber²
and select English versions)
The
Attention Economy: The Natural Economy of the Net First Monday, 1997
OLDER
WRITINGS;
Viewpoint (of this site)
Attention, Meaning and Meaningfulness
Advertising in Cyberspace (addenda to a conference at the
Aspen Institute)
The Attention Economy and the Net (draft of talk at Harvard
Conference (125/97)(A slightly more formal version of 10.)
Cyberspace and its relation to the economy)
Science: in what sense it leads to
truth; its drawbacks; and how it's changing in the new era
Heresies
Related to Technology
Miscellaneous Thoughts, mostly related to politics
"Language
as a Public Good Under Threat: The Private Ownership of Brand Names"
The Viewpoint
That Guides this Site
What
will guide many of these offerings are the principles I have worked out as to
what is really going on in cyberspace. Let me start by listing some of these
principles.
Cyberspace
today is a mess, yet it's going to be even more of a mess -- like life itself.
Which is no coincidence, since, more and more, this will be the space in which life as a
whole is lived.
The
move to cyberspace parallels the move from old feudal Europe to the New World
of the Americas five centuries ago. That traverse both set the stage for and
was an early indicator of the rise of the new market-based/ money-based/
industrial/ mass-production economy. Yet leaders of old feudalism didn't see
that. They thought the new space, the new world, was for them; so they set up
dukes and earls and viscounts to govern it for them, until they all fell.
Likewise
the grand panjandrums of the money economy think the new space today, this
space, cyberspace is for them, that it will just be part and parcel of that
now-old system. But the parallel is that cyberspace is really arising for
different reasons; to give birth to a completely new economy -- an economy that
is like feudalism in one way: it has little to do with money. (Though it is
unlike feudalism as can be in most other respects.)
A Caveat
I'll
come to what this new economy is, how it's different and unexpected, how it
operates. But first, let me be clear: it is no utopia. Embrace this new system,
but not wholeheartedly, I would say. See its strengths, yes. But see its weak
points as well, and its evils too. Fight those as best you can. Or try to
ameliorate the worst drawbacks somehow. But don't believe that by trying to
turn back the tide you would be a savior, because the old system can't really
stand much longer in any case. Should it survive, somehow, it would putrefy. We
have to go forward, and this appears to be the best chance we have.
For
morePrinciples of the New Economy look here.
--Michael
H. Goldhaber / mgoldh@well.com
More later
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