Epic Redux

[Nick Thompson]

russell,

I guess the thing that startled me the second time through was the thought
that when we get exactly what we want we get, after all, just a reflection
of ourselves.  

I guess its the old fashioned liberal in me.

The best moment in the filmlet for me is the manner in which the decline of
Microsoft is handled.  I laugh every time.

N



Nicholas S. Thompson
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Clark University
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> [Original Message]
> From: Russell Standish <[hidden email]>
> To: <[hidden email]>; The Friday Morning Applied Complexity
Coffee Group <[hidden email]>

> Date: 7/4/2005 2:49:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Epic Redux
>
> Interesting and classy presentation. To a certain extent these trends
> are well underway in the scientific arena - I depend a lot on
> technologies like arXiv, Comdig and email lists like Friam, everything
> and complex-science to help manage and digest the torrent of
> information being generated.
>
> Epic sounds frightening by being a single point of news. How different
> is that from watching the local commercial television news?
>
> What is more interesting is if we each had personal control over the
> news gathering agents - that I suspect is a better way of getting news
> than relying overly on single news digests.
>
> Cheers
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 10:52:20AM -0600, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > I think this probably originally came to me from this list, but I found

it so interesting, so HORRIFIC, that I thought it deserved another go.
(Takes a few minutes to download).
> >
> > http://oak.psych.gatech.edu/~epic/ 
> >
> > did we ever discuss it?  Or does it just seem par for the course to all
of you.  

> >
> > I particularly would like to have Tom's view.
> >
> > N
> >
> >
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