Comments on: the social singularity http://simonhammond.com/blog/2009/03/26/the-social-singularity/ has moved to sihammond.com Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:18:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: dp http://simonhammond.com/blog/2009/03/26/the-social-singularity/comment-page-1/#comment-260 dp Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:59:43 +0000 http://simonhammond.com/blog/?p=357#comment-260 Sounds a lot like Foucault's ideas about discourse, coupled with an idea that as communication increases, ways of thinking tend to flatten out: accents and dialects disappear, information gets normalised. MAybe it will work out as you say. I'm up for things going in directions that might be construed as 'wrong' in the same way that Zittrain writes about generativity. Sounds a lot like Foucault’s ideas about discourse, coupled with an idea that as communication increases, ways of thinking tend to flatten out: accents and dialects disappear, information gets normalised.

MAybe it will work out as you say. I’m up for things going in directions that might be construed as ‘wrong’ in the same way that Zittrain writes about generativity.

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