The Machine is Us/ing Us

5 Responses to “The Machine is Us/ing Us”

1. beau Says:
   February 2nd, 2007 at 12:49 pm

   Fine, but how come when *I* said “the net _is_ ai, if only we will open our eyes and see it that way” y’all scoffed? B^)

   Anyway, _great_ find. As usual.

2. chris Says:
   February 2nd, 2007 at 1:46 pm

   I think because you rejected my characterization of same as the “people in the machine” meme when I was last down your way?

3. beau Says:
   February 2nd, 2007 at 2:47 pm

   :-p

   I didn’t reject your meme. I rejected memes in general. That was before joining the bandwagon at Balkinization, where I coined the phrase, “memetic collective unconsciousf“, knowing full well my host there partakes of that particular thought virus (cf his Yale Information Society Project

   Clearly this is going need some Oceanside java to clear it all up. Keith Richards at ten paces? Or choose your poison. GP can referee. (We’re really looking forward to the visit!)

4. chris Says:
   February 2nd, 2007 at 3:03 pm

   Hey, you can’t reject all memes and say you didn’t reject mine But I’m glad you’ve come around to the memestream. You will be assimilated.

   I do think we need a Keith Richards to deal with this. Just got plane tickets and will backchannel information– unfortunately it’s a short visit pretty much just like last time…

5. beau Says:
   February 7th, 2007 at 9:01 am

   Dude, you realize you were days ahead of the wonderful folks at boingboing.net on this? And because of my good luck in affiliations so was I. link