Grandes preguntasUno de los espacios de pensamiento más interesantes en la red es Edge. Lleva años aportando reflexiones de investigadores, profesores, científicos, filósofos, etc. que trabajan en los límites de lo conocido. Y este año han pedido a los miembros de su comunidad que definan una regla universal. En total, 164 reglas muy muy interesantes. Por ejemplo:

Every technology has an instrumental side, what the technology does for us and a subjective side, what the technology does to us, to our ways of seeing the world, including to our ways of thinking about ourselves. Sherry Turkle.

Culture is everything we don't have to do. Brian Eno.

Program development ends when the program does what you expect it to do—whether it is correct or not. Albert-László Barabási.

Words should be your servants, not your masters. Marvin Minsky.

Communication media that enable collective action on new scales, at new rates, among new groups of people, multiply the power available to civilizations and enable new forms of social interaction. The alphabet enabled empire and monotheism, the printing press enabled science and revolution, the telephone enabled bureaucracy and globalization, the Internet enabled virtual communities and electronic markets, the mobile telephone enabled smart mobs and tribes of urban info-nomads. Howard Rheingold.

Using is believing. Izumi Aizu.