"The whole point of social software ...

... is to replace the social with software" -- Jimmy Wales (meant as a criticism, of course) (found via many-to-many)

The whole point of social software is ...

... to build a semantic machine that feeds back the random and the unpredictable by building a network of online-personas.
... to experience a PC screen that not only mirrors my thinking but also is speaking to me - randomly and unpredictably, but not chaotic.
...

the social is a secondary function here. the primary experience is the cyborgian synthesis of the screen and me.

(yes, i know: too much abstraction. i still have to learn this US-get-to-the-powerpoint-in-an-elevator-rhetorics. i mean it. but sure this kind of common-sense-rhetorics is sometimes not good for analyzing complex phenomena, while it is quite good to gain momentum and to get something done.)

Posted by martin at November 4, 2005 8:41 AM | TrackBack