What The Rules of Fight Club have to teach us about the Web 2.0.
#1 - The first rule of Web 2.0 is, you do not talk about Web 2.0.
#2 - The second rule of Web 2.0 is, you DO NOT TALK about Web 2.0.
#3 - If everyone says stop, goes limp, taps out, Web 2.0 is over.
#4 - Two people to a podcast.
#5 - One post at a time.
#6 - No frames, no tables.
#7 - Web 2.0 will go on as long as it has to.
#8 - If this is your first blog at Web 2.0, you have to post.
There are factions among us; they want to be machines. I feel them looking at me, as I am just flesh.
There is so much lip service to posthuman on the fringe. It seems like every third scifi story that I read is dealing with our integration into the machine. As far back as 1912 there are references to half-human/half-machine creatures, androids and various other allusions to un-man. They range from cautionary tales that warn us off of playing god to embracing cyberpunk anthologies all dealing with the same connected planet. (more…)