J.C.R. Licklider.

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J.C.R. Licklider. "Man-Computer Symbiosis." In
IRE Transactions on Human Factors in Electronics,
volume HFE-1, pp. 4-11, March 1960.
http//memex.org/licklider.pdf
J.C.R. Licklider and Robert S. Taylor. The
Computer as a Communications Device. In Science
and Technology no.76, Apr. 1968, pp. 21 31.
http//memex.org/licklider.pdf
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The hope is that, in not too many years, human
brains and computing machines will be coupled
together very tightly, and that the resulting
partnership will think as no human brain has
ever thought and process data in a new way not
approached by the information- handling machines
we know today. JCR Licklider, Man-Computer
Symbiosis, 1960
JCR Licklider
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A sea bacteria of the family Oceanospirillales har
bored here ?
The sea worm Osedax
Whale bone eater worms have no digestive system.
The bacteria which feed on whale bone lipids can
not easily get to the bones. But the worm Osedax
harbors its symbiotic partner, an
Oceanospirillales bacteria which digests the
lipids for the worms so they both get the
nutrients each needs.
http//www.phschool.com/science/science_news/artic
les/gutless_wonder.html
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"The collection of people, hardware, and software
-- the multi-access computer together with its
local community of users -- will become a node in
a geographically distributed computer network.
J.C.R. Licklider
and Robert Taylor,
The Computer as a Communication Device,

1968
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What is technology vis-a-vis humans?
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Is technology, rather than bad or good or
neutral, in some ways 'natural'?
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A Netizen is a net citizen. A citizen of the
net. Netizens are not just anyone who come
online. Rather they are people who understand
it takes effort and positive action on each and
everyone's part to make the Net a regenerative
and vibrant community and resource.
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"Well, I don't see any point in looking any
farther. It was probably just one of those wild
rumors."
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Thank you hauben_at_columbia.edu
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It seems reasonable to envision, for a time 10
or 15 years hence, a 'thinking center' that will
incorporate the functions of present-day
libraries together with anticipated advances in
information storage and retrieval.
- J.C.R. Licklider, Man-Computer
Symbiosis, 1960.
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The picture readily enlarges itself into a
network of such centers, connected to one another
by wide-band communication lines and to
individual users by leased-wire services.
JCR Licklider,
Man-Computer Symbiosis,1960
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procognitive system a system for the advancement
and application of knowledge described in
Lickliders 1965 book
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Social/Political Questions
Would society set itself the goal of developing
intellectual and scholarly resources? Would
all the holders of digitized information share
their holdings without restriction? Would
society resist the commercial pressure to keep
knowledge proprietary?
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Protestors from around the world gathered in
Seattle Washington to demonstrate against the
globalization activities of the World Trade
Organization
Photo http//www.indymedia.ie/article/80676
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One million protestors in NYC on Feb 15,
2003. Police allow only 100,000 on to First Ave.
Photo http//www.thegully.com/essays/iraq/030220_
photos_antiwar_nyc.html
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Through the network . . . , all the large
computers can communicate with one another. And
through them, all the members of the super
community can communicate -- with other people,
with programs, with data, or with a selected
combinations of those resources.
J.C.R. Licklider and
Robert Taylor,
The Computer as a Communication Device,

1968
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For the society, the impact will be good or bad,
depending mainly on the question Will to be
on line be a privilege or a right? If only a
favored segment of the population gets a chance
to enjoy the advantage of "intelligence
amplification," the network may exaggerate the
discontinuity in the spectrum of intellectual
opportunity.
J.C.R. Licklider and Robert Taylor, The Computer
as a Communication Device, 1968

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NY Times August 19, 2007 Op-Ed ColumnHe Got Out
While the Getting Was GoodBy FRANK RICH

• The rise of YouTube certifies the passing of Mr.
  Rove's era, a cultural changing of the guard in
  the digital age. Mr. Rove made his name in
  direct-mail fund-raising and with fierce top-down
  message management. As the Internet erodes snail
  mail, so it upends direct mail. As YouTube
  threatens a politician's ability to rigidly
  control a message, so it threatens the Rove ethos
  that led Mr. Bush to campaign at "town hall"
  meetings attended only by hand-picked supporters.