{"id":1715,"date":"2011-12-06T16:44:04","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T16:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=1715"},"modified":"2014-03-06T10:22:27","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T15:22:27","slug":"the-parenthesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=1715","title":{"rendered":"The Parenthesis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s Dave Weinberger liveblogging Jeff Jarvis at the Berkman Center<\/a>:<\/p>\n

We\u2019re going through a huge transition, he says. He refers to the Gutenberg Parenthesis<\/a>. Before Gutenberg, knowledge was passed around, person to person. It was meant to honor and preserve ancient knowledge. After Gutenberg, knowledge became linear. There are beginnings and ends and boxes around things. It\u2019s about product. There\u2019s a clear sense of ownership. It honors current knowledge and its authors. Then you get to the other side of the parenthesis, and there are similarities. More passing it around, more remixing, less sense of ownership. The knowledge we revere starts to become the network itself. Our cognition of the world changes. The CTO of the Veterans Admin calls the Internet the Eighth Continent. \u201cI used to think of the Internet as a medium,\u201d but now he thinks of it more as a place, although there are problems with the place metaphor. (\u201cAll metaphors are wrong,\u201d interjects Doc Searls. \u201cThat\u2019s why they work.\u201d) It was a hard transition into the parenthesis, and it\u2019ll be hard coming out of it. It took 50 years after Gutenberg for books to come into their own, and 100 years to recognize the impact of books. We\u2019re still looking at the Net using our the past as our analog.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sure is a lot to chew on in that paragraph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s Dave Weinberger liveblogging Jeff Jarvis at the Berkman Center: We\u2019re going through a huge transition, he says. He refers to the Gutenberg Parenthesis. Before Gutenberg, knowledge was passed around, person to person. It was meant to honor and preserve ancient knowledge. After Gutenberg, knowledge became linear. There are beginnings and ends and boxes around […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-metastuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2241,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715\/revisions\/2241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}