Networking Instinct

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Gayle Duncan[Edit][Delete]: The Networking Instinct, The Empire Club of Canada Speeches [Edit][Delete] October 6, 2006
On reading some of my recent work on networks John Duncan from Regina set me this speech by his brother to the Empire Club in 2001. The speech looks at some of the early achievements - such as Schoolnet's witing of the last school on Pictou Island - and embraces the network philosophy explicitly: "Like Brockman, I fervently believe that what he calls distributed networked intelligence is the greatest monument to our species' experiment with civilisationbuilding so far. More...