CCT260H5 Final: CCT260 Chapter Summaries of Small Pieces Loosely Joined
29 Dec 2013
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Preface xi our social connections have been constrained by the real world - geography and atoms. The net is an artificial world which lets us see how much of our sociality is due to the nature of ourselves and not the nature of the real world. 12-13 people being fired for sending inappropriate email. 21-22 in our culture we tend to believe that bad things aren"t part of the deal". we expect fixes or compensation. 22 hoover dam as emblematic example of the power of traditional management. 23-5 in the real world we play by rules that limit surprises. We know how things are expected to work. The web changes concepts of space, time, perfection, social interaction, knowledge, matter and morality. 32 lived space is full of affordances (eg, a chair affords us the possibility of sitting) and (heidegger) the ready-to-hand. 35 the semantics of the web are spatial.
