Yeah, I'm sorry, too. When I originally proposed this topic, I hadn't formulated the idea very well so didn't want to talk about it much; then things got holiday-y, and I didn't remember that I'd agreed to do this until Alicia reminded me. So, no notification. So, some people I'd like to have been there won't be.
Anyway, I may want to come back to social media for a future meeting. I'm thinking of a second version of this that's more practical: How can we USE this stuff to enhance the process of getting and nurturing ideas. Look at how people are actually using Twitter, Facebook, Del.icio.us (RIP?), etc -- practical parts (how do you not choke on the firehose?) and more conceptual stuff (aren't people afraid of giving up their ideas to other people?). I have an outline, which would probably change, but which would at some point involve taking a look at writers' & thinkers' blogs, Twitter streams & Facebook pages to see what they're talking about and how they interact with the medium & one another. (FYI: William Gibson on Twitter is @GreatDismal. In tweets, he refers to his wife as "Mrs. GD.") On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 8:46 PM, Pat Rapp <[email protected]> wrote: > Rats! I’m working until 9 that night. Great topic. Sorry to miss it. > > : ( > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On > Behalf Of *Eric Scoles > *Sent:* Sunday, January 02, 2011 3:19 PM > *To:* r-spec > *Subject:* R-SPEC January: The Futurology of Social Media & Networked Life > > > > At this Tuesday's R-SPEC meeting, I'll be looking at the futurology of > social media & networked life. > > > > Which is the bigger deal: Flying cars & jetpacks, or ubiquitous personal > mobile phones? Living on the Moon, or continually broadcasting and > localizing ourselves here on Earth via Twitter & Foursquare? 20 minutes from > NY to Paris, undersea by rail -- or kids in Sri Lanka teaching themselves > molecular biology with the help of "grannies" in Edinburgh? Going to a > virtual world holographically -- or bringing a virtual world into our own > space, with that mobile phone? > > > > I'll try to position us in our augmented and socially-networked present, > present some thoughts on who did and didn't "predict" where we find > ourselves (and how), and maybe we can all try to figure out where we might > be going. > > > > Hope to see you there! > > > > > > > > > > > -- > -- > > eric scoles | [email protected] > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<r-spec%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<r-spec%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en. > -- -- eric scoles | [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en.
