JISC Gaining Business Intelligence from User Activity Data
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Abundance is nothing to be scared of But beware a world of endless abstractions
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Abundance is nothing to be scared ofBut beware a world of endless abstractions
The net is making discovery an even more anarchic and rich activity than it’s ever been before.
© Mendeley
Robin Sloan/Matt Thompsonrobinsloan.com/epic
Creative Commons licence
Clever rhyme
Guitar solo Intricate arrangement
“My favourite music is the music I haven’t yet heard”
John Cage
© William Gedney
“The earth is seethingwith incoherent power andunorganised intelligence”
John Buchan
Jennings’ Law:
People make most of their
discoveries elsewhere.
Rock’n’RollSpirit
NetPlatform & processing
BlogsFlesh
source: Ross Dawson (2007)www.futureexploration.net
Photo: John Hartnup, www.flickr.com/people/hartnupj licensed under creative commons
The world we inhabit is abundant beyond our wildest imagination. There are trees, dreams, sunrises; there are thunderstorms, shadows, rivers; there are wars, flea bites, love affairs; there are the lives of people, Gods, entire galaxies. The simplest human action varies from one person and occasion to the next…
Only a tiny fragment of this abundance affects our minds. This is a blessing, not a drawback. A superconscious organism would not be superwise, it would be paralyzed.
You’ve gotta feel it in your blood and in your guts! If you wanna rock, you gotta break the rules. You gotta get mad at the man! And right now, I’m the man. That’s right, I’m the man, and who’s got the guts to tell me off? Huh? Who’s gonna tell me off?
