Agenda for discussing with Bev after cycling
1) Identity and connected futures
I wrote in another blogpost:
Instead of having one physical surrounding, one social circle where everyone else knows each other as well, we live in different life worlds; for school, work, family and Internet. Different parts of my life, of my social circles, are very much separated. E.g. People I meet, do not read anything of what I read (or write, ha!). And I find I do only dosed cross-pollinating as a bumble bee, more often just butterflying from one scene to the next.
So instead of connecting, building bridges, varying diets, it sometimes only seems we are collectively practising our capability to live dis-jointed lifes. I think we have come to accept, even appreciate these separations. We are becoming very good at switching from one “life-world” to the next. We are all become more used to living in multiple different (sub-)cultures. Where we have sub-identieies.
Now Connected Futures arrive.
What happens?
Will our now dis-jointed life-worlds increasingly connect? How will we manage the different sub-cultures?
2) Community management by Chris Brogan and Nancy White
3) Bev’s view on World 3.0, slow community and attention economy
To do with increasing collective ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) and how to re-appreciate attention and express value.
ok… been for the micro-cycle that left me breathless up the hills and quite in admiration of you cycling a million miles ahead - with no water!
Disjointed life, dis-jointed, di-sjointed, di-s-jointed…
My sense is that we have to become more secure with our anchors (people/places that help us feel rooted) and our sails (the combination of wind and direction) that take us somewhere.
With that rootedness and with that direction we are better at being inter-people. Not dis- but inter- ….
There’s a whole technology side to it too.. developing OpenID, API. We have cross-national and institutions looking for both their own and a joint identity and trajectory … how do do it.. socially and technologically.
This inter-ness, I feel, is really really important for the next generation. Perhaps there’s something in realising that we are the pioneers… Not in technology but in the intersection between people, technology and social-cultural practices.
And that we have some of the same and some different excitements and challenges of the pioneers before us.
Comment by btrayner — April 30, 2008 @ 9:37 pm