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Kevin Kelly -- The Technium
kk.org - 2/13/2009
Kevin Kelly -- The Technium
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1) They are selective. They know how to say "no" and are not afraid to refuse new things. They ban more than they adopt. 2) They evaluate new things by experience instead of by theory. They let the early adopters get their jollies by pioneering new stuff under watchful eyes. 3) They have ...

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Links for 12th February 2009
Velcro City Tourist Board — ... it out," Proctor says. "But ignorance also comes from people literally suppressing truth—or drowning it out—or trying to make it so confusing that people stop caring about what's true and what's not." Tagged with: internet • culture • media • information • knowledge • corruption • ignorance • disinformation • agnotology • Amish Hackers "Turns out the Amish make a distinction between using something and ...

The Amish as hackers
Futurismic — ... Kevin Kelly has been researching Amish customs, and it turns out that they’re much more pragmatic about technology than you might think. Kelly claims that the younger, less hardcore Amish can be seen as hackers, treating the framework of rules they inherit from their religion as a system to be tweaked in light of new developments: ...

The Amish as hackers
Futurismic — ... Kevin Kelly has been researching Amish customs, and it turns out that they’re much more pragmatic about technology than you might think. Kelly claims that the younger, less hardcore Amish can be seen as hackers, treating the framework of rules they inherit from their religion as a system to be tweaked in light of new developments: ...

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