Date: Sun, 18 Jun 1995 22:32:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim-AT-panix.com> Subject: Re: Daydream Most of these sorts of things are in place on Usenet by the way, check out alt.noun.adjective.verb.verb.verb (think that's right), alt.warlord (ditto), etc. - there is a lot of experimentation - also check out the Spam that happened on alt.2600, available maybe still on Marius Watz' page and alt.hackers which you have to hack into - I feel very differently about email lists which is why I'm not posting here much about this - Alan On Sun, 18 Jun 1995, Malgosia Askanas wrote: > (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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