Creating a Supercommunity of On-Line Communities
Ronda Hauben,
Mar 24, 2005
If we understand our history, we understand ourselves. From our history: "In a few years, men will be able to communicate more effectively through a machine than face to face...We believe that we are entering into a technological age, in which we will be able to interact with the richness of living information -- not merely in the passive way that we have become accustomed to using books and libraries, but as CRLFactive participants in an ongoing process, bringing something to it through our interaction with it, and not simply receiving something from it by our connection to it." This is the story of how Norbert Wiener, Jerome Wiesner, J.C.R. Licklider and many others invented cybernetic community.
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