In the author's experience, the ICT paradigm has actually
resulted in a
disastrous "dumbing down" of both the population in general and
computer practice in particular (especially in the creative arts).
This document represents an index to a number of related documents
-which it is hoped will
help develop a new and more intellectually stimulating approach.
An approach that might also create new and more creative ways of
looking
at contemporary technological, cultural, socio-political and economic
paradigms -and the problems they seem to be creating.
The
first section attempts to
define the problem, the
second section presents various
practical and theoretical
contexts
and backgrounds, the
third section
tries to search for
basic Solutions,
the
fourth section tries to
expand some basic concepts into more useful conceptual and practical
systems -while the
fith section
provides some background
resources.
Please Note:
The
texts on this website are "Formal Systems"
-which in my terminology means that they represent conceptual
structures which play the "IF this was
true -THEN...."
game. There is no reason to assume that any of them are true.... they
merely attempt to clarify and explore the possible consequences of
things that are concievable and might be worth exploring to see how
closely these (imagined) conceptual structures might possibly relate to
our daily world of experience. They are intended to be useful for those
who like thinking about "how things might
work".... They are not intended to impose anything on anybody -or to
upset anybody. My apologies to anybody who might be offended by these
speculations.
The java programmes are perhaps philosophically slightly more complex
-because they represent dynamic representations of various "formal
systems" -which may not be true -or even exist outside the programme.
I'll leave it to the reader to decide how to deal with representational
systems that apparently function but might be representative of a
system that does not exist outside its own representation.....