Comments on: Pedro talks about social tools and social change http://remarkk.com/2008/03/02/pedro-talks-about-social-tools-and-social-change/ OPEN creative communities Thu, 15 Jul 2010 03:40:08 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Patrick http://remarkk.com/2008/03/02/pedro-talks-about-social-tools-and-social-change/comment-page-1/#comment-106615 Patrick Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:21:57 +0000 http://remarkk.com/2008/03/02/pedro-talks-about-social-tools-and-social-change/#comment-106615 Sounds like a guy who has the right idea, and I imagine he'd tried it out too. Much of technology could really be oriented toward community engagement, but the purposes are usually determined by management. Chomsky says that technology does have a big impact, but most of the time those advancements are spurred on in the pursuit of eliminating redundant personelle, or streamlining workflow. I wonder how community commissioned technology would work. I suppose since books came out of a need for governments to manage their people, and later supplanted those very institutions, we might hope the same for microsoft excel. Sounds like a guy who has the right idea, and I imagine he’d tried it out too. Much of technology could really be oriented toward community engagement, but the purposes are usually determined by management. Chomsky says that technology does have a big impact, but most of the time those advancements are spurred on in the pursuit of eliminating redundant personelle, or streamlining workflow.
I wonder how community commissioned technology would work. I suppose since books came out of a need for governments to manage their people, and later supplanted those very institutions, we might hope the same for microsoft excel.

]]> By: Goran Matic http://remarkk.com/2008/03/02/pedro-talks-about-social-tools-and-social-change/comment-page-1/#comment-106598 Goran Matic Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:43:13 +0000 http://remarkk.com/2008/03/02/pedro-talks-about-social-tools-and-social-change/#comment-106598 Wonderful elucidation from Pedro - it does indeed seem like we are all working on a way of contributing to the world in order to enable a "new way of being" that is differently integrated with our environments - whether they are social or natural in origin (and if we even choose to differentiate between the two). Technology can definitely play the "glue" role in this - printing press was a technology too, after all, as was a plough / plow - we may simply need to "tweak it right", perhaps, to keep on emerging through vision, communicate, and share through passion; This is starting to look like something akin to a.. revolution of passion, of interconnectedness, and of the heart - It's curious that through technology, we are actually returning to the humanistic principles that we seem to have initially abandoned through our initial fascination with technology (science-fiction of the 80's, anyone?), and an apparent mechanization of ourselves and of our society (universe is like clockwork) - I suppose it is becoming apparent that we always embody our imagination (to "em-body" - to take not just the external stimuli, but also the structural paradigms, into the body, whether physical, mental or emotional) - So why indeed not use imagination, through our passion, as channeled via technology, to embody something different and more aligned with humanistic principles; In this way, the circle completes itself. Wonderful elucidation from Pedro – it does indeed seem like we are all working on a way of contributing to the world in order to enable a “new way of being” that is differently integrated with our environments – whether they are social or natural in origin (and if we even choose to differentiate between the two).

Technology can definitely play the “glue” role in this – printing press was a technology too, after all, as was a plough / plow – we may simply need to “tweak it right”, perhaps, to keep on emerging through vision, communicate, and share through passion;

This is starting to look like something akin to a.. revolution of passion, of interconnectedness, and of the heart -

It’s curious that through technology, we are actually returning to the humanistic principles that we seem to have initially abandoned through our initial fascination with technology (science-fiction of the 80′s, anyone?), and an apparent mechanization of ourselves and of our society (universe is like clockwork) –

I suppose it is becoming apparent that we always embody our imagination (to “em-body” – to take not just the external stimuli, but also the structural paradigms, into the body, whether physical, mental or emotional) -

So why indeed not use imagination, through our passion, as channeled via technology, to embody something different and more aligned with humanistic principles;

In this way, the circle completes itself.

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