“We shall have to stop thinking of technology as something invulnerable that is merely used by humans, and view it as part of a greater cybernetic ecology all around us. The key distinction in an environment is not between ‘natural’… — Mark Burgess Copy Share
“Dynamics Concerning forces and changes in the world. Semantics Concerning meaning, interpretation and intent.” — Mark Burgess Copy Share Image
“Using a microscope we can see a little of what happens on a small scale, and using satellites and other remote tools we can… — Mark Burgess Copy Share Image
“Physics is thus a creative work of abstraction, far from the theory of everything that is sometimes claimed. For about a century, then, determinism was assumed to exist and to be the first requirement to be able to exert precise control over the world. This has come to dominate our cultural attitudes towards control. Today, determinism is known to be… — Mark Burgess Copy Share
“We suffer sometimes from the hubris of believing that control is a matter of applying sufficient force, or a sufficiently detailed set of instructions.” — Mark Burgess Copy Share Image
“We shall have to stop thinking of technology as something invulnerable that is merely used by humans, and view it as part of a greater cybernetic ecology all around us. The key distinction in an environment is not between ‘natural’ and ‘artificial’, but between semantic and dynamic: intention and behaviour. Biology has already drawn these lines, and through us, it… — Mark Burgess Copy Share
“We sometimes think we are in control because we either don’t have or choose not to see the full picture.” — Mark Burgess Copy Share Image
“We also use that limitation purposely as a tool to understand things, to form the illusion of mastery and control over a limited scale… — Mark Burgess Copy Share Image
“Autonomous and voluntary behaviour.” These words, hewn from the discussion about avoiding conflicting interests, strike fear in the hearts of technologists. “Control and determinism”… — Mark Burgess Copy Share Image
“The more details we can see, the less we have a sense of control. This is why layers of management in an organization tend… — Mark Burgess Copy Share Image
“our perceptions of being ‘in control’ always have a lot to do with scale at we focus our attention – and, by implication, the… — Mark Burgess Copy Share Image
