From OSCON 09: Karl Schroeder, “The Rewilding: A Metaphor” (by OreillyMedia)
Summary of Points in Video
- Unconscious Computing
- “Rewilding”
- Political Values
- Virtual Nations
- Software agents understanding us better than ourselves do
- Animals tagged & ubiquitous tracking - they’ll have their own blogs, Twitter accounts, websites, etc.
- Getting things more efficient by relinquishing traditional control
- Signals
- “Rewilding” is a metaphor for introducing species to restore an ecosystem/environment
- Signals - ecosystem services. Eg - putting dollar figures to a wetland: puts a non-human element into human economy (this is new)
- Get ahead by letting alone
- Negotiate with a self-ruled world
- Open-source rewilding
- Wikinomics rewilding
- Open/emergent government
- “Process of leaving something alone” = “Rewilding”
- Cognitive Science - using body to think with (brain isn’t just a metaphor for computer software model)
- Definition of ourselves is changing to things that are not ourselves - the entire enviornment
- The highest technology of all is: knowing what you can control, and what you need to let go.
- Democracy stems from insight about humans: need to let alone
- Learn when to trust, when to control
