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Overwined rated 9 months ago- Yes, regardless of the fact that what Burke is talking about may seem hopeless and Utopian, it's still very important, for without dreams and Utopian views we have no model of the world as we want it.
- jpcruz rated 9 months ago
- "...if the universe is, at any time, whatever you say it is... then say."
- rodneyj43 rated 9 months ago
- Wow, I always loved Burke. He was on PBS in the late 80s quite a bit and I saw them all repeatedly. The unfortunate thing was I was as Idealistic as he was back then about computer networking. However, what he assumes is that everybody using those networks will be equally educated (and want to be). What we have now is closer to Mike Judge's "Idiocracy" than to Burke's vision of "Balanced Anarchy." Anarchy is earned, and we haven't really earned, in terms of sociological evolution, even this little bit of it we already have. The are fast-strange times, and we live in fast-strange ways.
- in2it rated 13 months ago
- Check out the final 5 minutes of the final episode of "Connections." He contemplates a world of open electronic communities creating a balanced anarchy. "...if the universe is, at any time, whatever you say it is... then say." Is he predicting the future existence of YOU? "Connections" was a 10-episode series created and narrated by British science historian and author James Burke. It was produced for the BBC and first aired in 1978... Long before anyone had ever heard of the web.
