The digital holes in the digital cheese

Rupert Murdoch talked about being either a digital immigrant or a digital native

and then went and bought the holes in the digital cheese

I was thinking about the how an industrialised economy, with all its processes, and efficiencies must have shaped our thinking and behaviour more deeply then we could have imagined. Even in the way we have schooled and educated our citizens Worth a read The rise of the creative class And the wisdom of Crowds

So, this got me musing on the idea that if OLD MEDIA - was a static representative media. Pushed to us.

Think about Walter Cronkite saying at the end of his new broadcasts

And that's the way it is

Then the new media of blogs, citizen journalism, web 2.0, mobile, the explosion of peer-to-peer flows of communication, and, the convergence of technological platforms with a considerable slice of societal change thrown in, extrapolates out to an organic cognitive media ecology, which is forever in flux.

New media in total is authentically more critical, a distributed collective intelligence.

Or as we say in plain english

Nobody is as clever as everybody

I have been looking at the significant strategic changes going on within the education system and it is clear that, the imperative is to unlock the true capability and therefore value personal and economic in every child. This requires a completely different approach to how we teach, the resources that we deploy and how we learn as individuals first.

Flows of cognitive communication/information become therefore evermore valuable.

Matthew Wall-Smith writing in the Networked Society. A shift in Cognitive Ecologies argues

we already function as a distributed intelligence. No one person can know everything and we rely on our community to provide access to people who have specific and detailed knowledge of a particular subject. Communities form and develop intricate networks of knowledge that in turn function as distinct and collective subjectivities, "neurons of a planetary hyper cortex" [ 37 ]. New media technologies provide an immediate and very real boost to the speed and economy at which such centers of knowledge can act. They need no longer meet once a week in separate districts and can log in to a collective network, possibly centred on technology as simple as a Web site and a Web log that provides them with a 'shared context' [ 38 ]. The Internet already provides for the formation of "large geographically dispersed groups with instruments for cooperatively constructing a shared context".

And I believe that this further iteration of how the internet and connected communities changes/liberates us from all things industrial

In this context it is possible to see that extent to which the Internet and cyberspace represent a paradigm shift in the 'discourse of the human subject'. The individual becomes a neural node in a cognitive space that resembles an augmented human brain with a collective and dynamic memory capable of lateral associations. Rather than requiring conformance this model values the productive difference in each subjective node as a valid and informative re-contextualisation of the cognitive whole.