Joi Ito: One of the things I've found is that people don't
like to be compared to ants.
Funny. I was thinking about writing an entry about the story "Ant Fugue", from Hofstadter. A few nights ago I had a kind of nightmare related with this story.
In this story, an anteater talks with an anthill by eating ants in different patterns. In my nightmare, I felt like the dialog between myself and the Internet communities was the same, with a small difference: I am one of the ants, eating in my dialog and being eaten in turns in the dialogs from different people. Scary? I felt it as The way things should be, at least coming from a social predator species. ;-)
My take on it? Take producer/consumer paradigm to a new level.
Funny. I was thinking about writing an entry about the story "Ant Fugue", from Hofstadter. A few nights ago I had a kind of nightmare related with this story.
In this story, an anteater talks with an anthill by eating ants in different patterns. In my nightmare, I felt like the dialog between myself and the Internet communities was the same, with a small difference: I am one of the ants, eating in my dialog and being eaten in turns in the dialogs from different people. Scary? I felt it as The way things should be, at least coming from a social predator species. ;-)
My take on it? Take producer/consumer paradigm to a new level.
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