{"id":220,"date":"2006-06-02T18:38:56","date_gmt":"2006-06-02T17:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.leapfrog.nl\/archives\/2006\/06\/02\/rough-notes-from-euan-semple-theres-something-going-on-here-that-is-bigger-than-any-of-us\/"},"modified":"2008-07-22T21:40:24","modified_gmt":"2008-07-22T19:40:24","slug":"rough-notes-from-euan-semple-theres-something-going-on-here-that-is-bigger-than-any-of-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2006\/06\/02\/rough-notes-from-euan-semple-theres-something-going-on-here-that-is-bigger-than-any-of-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Rough notes from Euan Semple &#8211; There&#8217;s something going on here that is bigger than any of us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What does it all mean?<\/p>\n<p>Printing press analogy. Press changed the way we saw the world. We&#8217;ll have similar shift in the future (long term). But: they used to burn heretics as well. Not everyone will want to adopt this.<\/p>\n<p>7 years since Cluetrain: lots of stuff is still the same<\/p>\n<p>Change will not happen thanks to tech. <\/p>\n<p>Three myths<\/p>\n<ol>\n    <li>Hierarchy is the only way to organize stuff, from church through military, etc. but: hyperlinks subvert hierarchy. Once people start employing them it has a disruptive effect, breaking though hierarchies.<\/li>\n    <li>If we take certain steps we&#8217;ll be successful. But success got scrambled.<\/li>\n    <li>Cartesian anxiety: stress due to separation of individual and rest of the world (perspective). Misunderstanding of evolution, it should be about passing around what works (faster), not killing off the weak.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s easier to do good than to do bad&#8221; &#8212; Jimmy Wales<\/p>\n<p>LOVE: that&#8217;s what makes the internet hang together (and it&#8217;s not about the huge amounts of porn). Tolerance, the need to connect. Reboot is very much about this. <\/p>\n<p>Internet creates opportunities for better understanding of shared meaning.<\/p>\n<p>Everything is motivated by love or fear and fear is just absence of love.<\/p>\n<p>He didn&#8217;t get where he was today&#8230; by using fear.<\/p>\n<p>Collusion: people don&#8217;t want to admit to what they&#8217;re doing is wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Anarchy actually means the ultimate in democracy. Is it so bad to fragment huge institutions. <\/p>\n<p>Every society has people that see themselves as maintainers of order (although they don&#8217;t know what that order is). <\/p>\n<p>The web cuts out the middle men (maintainers of order).<\/p>\n<p>The idea that the online world is immature and dangerous is wrong. Google never forgets. Think about the stuff you say.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t complain, don&#8217;t say no.<\/p>\n<p>Do the right thing.<\/p>\n<p>Stating the obvious, say the way you think the world should be and it&#8217;ll turn out that way.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing something interesting, then judging yourself if it&#8217;s valuable enough and publishing it. Other people doing the same as an effect and on and on.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not about tech. but it isn&#8217;t utopia either. You should take responsibility for what you do.<\/p>\n<p>Dalai Lama quote: it&#8217;s about relationships and being social.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/reboot.dk\/wiki\/There%27s_something_going_on_here_that_is_bigger_than_any_of_us\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/reboot.dk\/wiki\/There%27s_something_going_on_here_that_is_bigger_than_any_of_us\">http:\/\/reboot.dk\/wiki\/There%27s_something_going_on_here_that_is_bigger_than_any_of_us<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does it all mean? Printing press analogy. Press changed the way we saw the world. We&#8217;ll have similar shift in the future (long term). But: they used to burn heretics as well. Not everyone will want to adopt this. 7 years since Cluetrain: lots of stuff is still the same Change will not happen &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2006\/06\/02\/rough-notes-from-euan-semple-theres-something-going-on-here-that-is-bigger-than-any-of-us\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rough notes from Euan Semple &#8211; There&#8217;s something going on here that is bigger than any of us<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[625],"tags":[141,15,189,94],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-reboot-8","tag-events","tag-love","tag-social-software"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":996,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}