Date: Sun, 18 Jun 95 20:19:54 EDT From: ma-AT-dsd.camb.inmet.com (Malgosia Askanas) Subject: Re: Daydream (BTW, not in connection with this thread, isn't there something funny about the fact that so many people mention the D-G list? If so many of us are dissatisfied with the way D-G is, how come it is that way? Can we up and change it?) Tow W said: > What would the following lists look like? > free-association > digression > vacuum > everyday-life > memory (I love the idea of a list called "digression"; the rule would be that you'd never be permitted to speak on the topic. If you did, you'd have to pay a fine. I would be treasurer.) I think "everyday life" and "memory" might be excellent list names, provided that there is a well-thought-out list description that focuses everything. Maybe that's not required in the case of "memory", but I would say definitely for "everyday life". I quite like that, actually. I wonder what other people think. > I've been thinking of a list called list-jockey that's about the future of > writing, as mediated by email lists and hypertext. This seems to me a meadow Alan would want to frolick in. > "With the foundation of an international moving script > [poets] will renew their authority in the life of peoples, and find a role > awaiting them in comparison to which all the innovative aspirations of > rhetoric will reveal themselves as antiquated daydreams." Is this prediction > an antiquated daydream? I once saw a grotesque "panel discussion" between Marvin Minsky and Umberto Eco; somebody had the malicious idea of putting them together in public and having them "discuss" the 21st century. Eco, among other things, expressed the opinion that in the 21st century things like poetry and art will become central to people's lives. Minsky, on the other hand, thought that they would altogether vanish, since they were just blind alleys that people in the past pursued instead of pursuing computer science, which alone is capable of solving the only two problems worthy of human attention: how to become immortal and how to achive knowledge without having to have any physical interactions with the outside world. -malgosia ------------------
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