{"id":812,"date":"2003-09-09T22:58:01","date_gmt":"2003-09-09T22:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2003\/09\/09\/friendster_as_neocortical_prosthetic.html"},"modified":"2003-09-09T22:58:01","modified_gmt":"2003-09-09T22:58:01","slug":"friendster_as_neocortical_prosthetic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2003\/09\/09\/friendster_as_neocortical_prosthetic.html","title":{"rendered":"Friendster as neocortical prosthetic&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple people have responded to my 150 person limit post with arguments about how the web should help increase our ability to connect and expand this number (most notably Tom Coates&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plasticbag.org\/archives\/2003\/09\/friendster_as_neocortical_prosthetic.shtml\">Friendster as neocortical prosthetic&#8230;<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Tom&#8217;s right in that those who perceive our brains as a computer see technology as an opportunity for augmentation, parallel processing style.  This is where i fundamentally believe that humanity matters.  Keeping up social relations is not simply about remembering everyone you&#8217;ve met or having a structure to keep track of them.  It is also about having the time and ability to manage those relationships, keep information flowing, etc.  Social networks are not simply about people that you can store to use as appropriate.  Thus, i don&#8217;t fundamentally believe that an augmented version of your network will give you the tools necessary to maintain more meaningful contacts.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, i&#8217;d love to be proven wrong.<\/p>\n<p>[Direct note to Tom&#8217;s post: i&#8217;m not actually trying to justify why i&#8217;m not an anomaly; i&#8217;m trying to express why the numbers don&#8217;t make sense in the context of an articulated social network that spans time.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple people have responded to my 150 person limit post with arguments about how the web should help increase our ability to connect and expand this number (most notably Tom Coates&#8217; Friendster as neocortical prosthetic&#8230;). Tom&#8217;s right in that those who perceive our brains as a computer see technology as an opportunity for augmentation, parallel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}