BrainJam, Dec 3, 2005
Last night, Mike suggested I
might enjoy this "one day confernce kind of thing" at SRI today, BrainJams. Unfortunate name, but
interesting enough looking as I needed a change of pace and some
more socializing =)
It was fun. Basically, it ran as an extended brainstorming
session. Lots of creative people who were into ideas jamming (the
name was appropriate, though still, I believe, unfortunate) and
springboarding on each others' ideas. Topics ranged all over the
map, with many interesting conversations and people.
Rather than rehash it in digest form, I'll just spew some of the fun
notions that crossed my mind while there:
- smiles per hour
- simulating privacy by spamming lies into the information space
- conspiracy theories as externalized business think tank
- web 2.0 as technophile social movement
- food is a catalyst for community building
- ubiquitous lack of privacy (complete transparency) and idealized
society (no behavior outside one standard deviation from the norm in
the control society) would be mutually sufficient and mutually causal
(and probably a deeply scary distopia)
- group decisions on the internet generally reduce to everyone who
disagrees with the loudest people leaving until there is concensus
between those who remain
- there is a deep unmet need for greater physical community
amongst internet-oriented geeks
- regardless of the societal norm, and hence laws, technological
possibility will outpace them and define new expectations which will
become legal once the majority is used to them (this means an eventual
total lack of the current conceptualization of privacy)
- courtesy will replace privacy
- we need more old geeks to put us young geeks in our places when
we step out of line
"Smiles per hour," is my favorite, the rest of the notions could
wander away and I wouldn't be too sad. I'd feel a lasting loss at
what I couldn't remember if I were to lose "smiles per hour."
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