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MANAGEMENT

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MANAGEMENTLABOUR

Executes simple tasks

Plans work to be done by labourer

Measures performance

Trains labourer

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MANAGEMENTLABOUR

YOU ARE NOT AN INDIVIDUAL

HERE

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AUTHORITY OF EXPERTISE

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WORK + PROFIT =

GOOD

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MODERN LIFE IS BEREFT OF

MEANING

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THE SELF IS IRRATIONAL

The “Hawthorne Effect”

MANAGERLABOUR

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THE DIGITAL HINGE IN HISTORY

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“Centralised systems of management are superior

to decentralised ones.”

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Paul Baran, “On Distributed Communications” (Santa Monica: RAND, 1964). Download link on BlackBoard

“Engrossing” Cory Doctorow, BoingBoing

“Understanding the trends driving this revolution is pivotal to success. Consider this book your road map”

Marc Benioff, CEO, Salesforce

“An immensely important book” Kevin O'Sullivan, Editor of The Irish Times  

“Enormously useful ... a great read” Prof Tim Wu, Columbia Law School

“The best western history of the Internet to date” Library Journal

“Captures the sweep of the Internet’s development” Prof Jonathan Zittrain, Harvard Law School

Alive at the hinge in history

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thehinge in history

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‘Big Ivan’ (largest ever nuke), 1961

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The centralized network is obviously vulnerable as destruction of a single node destroys communica-tion between the end stations.

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Paul Baran

On Distributed Networking (1962)

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Paul Baran

On Distributed Networking (1962)

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The Emerging Pattern is Centrifugal

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1969 1970

1972 1977

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1969

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1969

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Birth of the mailing list

SF-LOVERS

Date: 15 SEP 1979 2216-PDT From: LSTEWART at PARC-MAXC Subject: "Demon Breed" To: SF-Lovers:

For the James H. Schmitz fans out there "Demon Breed" is out in Paperback! Also, (slightly old news) "A Tale of Two Clocks" is out in paperback as "Legacy".

Now if only "Lion Game" would be re-printed... -Larry -------

Date: 18 Sep 1979 9:25 am (Tuesday) From: Brodie at PARC-MAXC Subject: Star Trek: The Motion Picture To: Science Fiction Lovers <SF^>

The latest (actually 3 months old) news about the release of ST-TMP suggests that it will open December 9 at a theater near you. (Inside sources at the Old Mill Theaters in Mountain View say they will probably show it.)

Gene Roddenberry likes it. Leonard Nimoy likes it. It is reputed to be the "best" Star Trek production yet made. For further details see any issue of STARLOG magazine. If you can't find it, it is on sale at STAR BASE in the San Antonio Shopping Center, Mountain View, and Out of Town News, Harvard Square.

Rich

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SOCIAL FROM THE BEGINNING

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1997-2001

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AUTHORITY IS CHANGING

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1 Google search/portal

2 Facebook user generated

3 YouTube user generated

4 Yahoo search/portal

5 Baidu user generated

6 Wikipedia user generated

7 Amazon user generated

8 Twitter search/portal

9 Qq search/portal

10 Taobao user generated

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“Our silence is our real propaganda. Rejections, explanations, or corrigendum only waste your

time … pulling you away from your cause.”

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…And I hope that those who sent in their questions have not become upset by the passing of some time between the posing of the questions and the giving of the answers. Allah knows that I did my best to make the answers come close after the questions…

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Pre-alpha

Alpha

Beta

Release Candidate Release To Market

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Pre-alpha

Alpha

Beta

Release Candidate

Release To Market

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…considering that no small utility may accrue to the Church of God, if it be made known which out of all the Latin editions,

now in circulation, of the sacred books, is to be held as authentic,—ordains and declares, that the said old and

vulgate edition, which, by the lengthened usage of so many ages, has been approved of in the Church, be, in public

lectures, disputations, sermons, and expositions, held as authentic; and that no one is to dare, or

presume to reject it under any pretext whatever.

DecreeConcerningtheEdi/onandtheUseoftheSacredBooks,CanonsandDecreesoftheCouncilofTrent,4thSession,1546

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Printing press Circa 1450 Television 1930s

Antediluvian Oral tradition

1450s AD - 2000 AD

INFLEXIBLE INFORMATION

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Web 2.0: a reversion to the oral tradition?

New Oral Tradition

Television 1930s

ARPANET 1969

Web 2.0 2004

Antediluvian Oral tradition

Printing press Circa 1450

INFLEXIBLE INFORMATION

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Information is now Plastic (changeable, unreliable,

uncontrollable)

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Quirky is

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Network Working Group 4689RFC-3 April 1969 Steve Crocker UCLA

DOCUMENTATION CONVENTIONS

The Network Working Group seems to consist of Steve Carr of Utah, JeffRulifson and Bill Duvall at SRI, and Steve Crocker and Gerard Delocheat UCLA. Membership is not closed.

The Network Working Group (NWG) is concerned with the HOST software, thestrategies for using the network, and initial experiments with the network.

Documentation of the NWG's effort is through notes such as this. Notesmay be produced at any site by anybody and included in this series.

CONTENT

The content of a NWG note may be any thought, suggestion, etc. related tothe HOST software or other aspect of the network. Notes are encouraged tobe timely rather than polished. Philosophical positions without examplesor other specifics, specific suggestions or implementation techniqueswithout introductory or background explication, and explicit questionswithout any attempted answers are all acceptable. The minimum length for a NWG note is one sentence.

These standards (or lack of them) are stated explicitly for two reasons.First, there is a tendency to view a written statement as ipso facto authoritative, and we hope to promote the exchange and discussion of considerably less than authoritative ideas. Second, there is a naturalhesitancy to publish something unpolished, and we hope to ease thisinhibition.

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Network Working Group 4689RFC-3 April 1969 Steve Crocker UCLA

DOCUMENTATION CONVENTIONS

The Network Working Group seems to consist of Steve Carr of Utah, JeffRulifson and Bill Duvall at SRI, and Steve Crocker and Gerard Delocheat UCLA. Membership is not closed.

The Network Working Group (NWG) is concerned with the HOST software, thestrategies for using the network, and initial experiments with the network.

Documentation of the NWG's effort is through notes such as this. Notesmay be produced at any site by anybody and included in this series.

CONTENT

The content of a NWG note may be any thought, suggestion, etc. related tothe HOST software or other aspect of the network. Notes are encouraged tobe timely rather than polished. Philosophical positions without examplesor other specifics, specific suggestions or implementation techniqueswithout introductory or background explication, and explicit questionswithout any attempted answers are all acceptable. The minimum length for a NWG note is one sentence.

These standards (or lack of them) are stated explicitly for two reasons.First, there is a tendency to view a written statement as ipso facto authoritative, and we hope to promote the exchange and discussion of considerably less than authoritative ideas. Second, there is a naturalhesitancy to publish something unpolished, and we hope to ease thisinhibition.

The Network Working Group seems to consist of...

Notes may be produced ... by anybody...

Membership is not closed.

content... may be any thought, suggestion, etc. ...The minimum length for a NWG note is one sentence.

we hope to promote the exchange... of considerably less than authoritative ideas.

RFC [(Request For Comments)]

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NOT THIS

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Toolkit.ie

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“I am a collector of broken laser pointers”

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#4 Participation...

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To understand the nature of the coming global media boom,reflect on the birth of break beat hip-hop music. In the early1970s a high-rise apartment building on 1520 SedgwickAvenue in New York’s Bronx became the birthplace of a newculture, and a new style of editing and adapting music...

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Participation anywhere

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$25

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#4 Politics

Whistle Blowing

WikiLeaks provides an avenue for every government official... and every corporate worker, who becomes privy to damning information that their institution wants to hide but the public needs to know.

1. Distributed power: centrifugal 2. Social from the beginning3. Information is plastic 4. Quirky is back 5. Participation possible for more 6. Change in politics & organisations

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Johnny Ryan, A history of the Internet and the digital future, pp. 11-22.

Errol Morris, “The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara” (2003), movie. In Library, on Netflix and elsewhere.

Chris Grey, A very short, fairly interesting and reasonably cheap book about studying organisations, pages 61-81.

THANK YOU