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“Machines of Flesh and Blood”- Norbert Weiner

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The Internet as a Parallel

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Hiroshi ISHII!s Digital Life
Information Ecology 2010
June 12, 2010 Tokyo
January 9, 2010 Cambridge MA

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Ethernet - 1974

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Ethernet - 1974

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TCP/IP - 1974

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TCP/IP - 1974

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HTTP/HTML - 1990

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HTTP/HTML - 1990

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SSL 3.0 - 1996

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SSL 3.0 - 1996

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SSL 3.0 - 1996

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SSL 3.0 - 1996

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SSL 3.0- 2008

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Competitive / For-Profit

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Competitive / For-Profit

Execution and ScalingCollaborative / Non-Profit

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Internet

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Lawrence Lessig. 1999. Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace
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ICOs

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Complex Self-Adaptive Systems

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Emerson / ML MeetingThe Landlord’s Game

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“Let me make the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws”

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Donella Meadows, Places to Intervene in a System(in increasing order of effectiveness)
12. Constants, parameters, numbers (such as subsidies, taxes, standards).
11. The sizes of buffers and other stabilizing stocks, relative to their flows.
10. The structure of material stocks and flows (such as transport networks, population age structures).
9. The lengths of delays, relative to the rate of system change.
8. The strength of negative feedback loops, relative to the impacts they are trying to correct against.
7. The gain around driving positive feedback loops.
6. The structure of information flows (who does and does not have access to information).
5. The rules of the system (such as incentives, punishments, constraints).
4. The power to add, change, evolve, or self-organize system structure.
3. The goals of the system.
2. The mindset or paradigm out of which the system - its goals, structure, rules, delays, parameters arises.
1. The power to transcend paradigms.

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First Principles and Ethics
3. The goals of the system.
2. The mindset or paradigm out of which the system its goals, structure, rules, delays, parameters - arises.
1. The power to transcend paradigms.

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