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Index of the book "The New Nature".

 

1. The new nature

  • The continued fall of Man

  • We have become as gods

  • An age of paradoxes

  • A quick overview

From atoms to bits

2. Computers überalles

  • Much much more than media

  • Things That Think

  • No more looking for a place to park

  • Digital aura

  • It's all connected

  • The global NOW

  • Television of the future

  • The central, connecting medium; The internet

  • Webcams

  • Organic interfaces

  • A populated electronic univers

  • The electronic masquerade

3. New demands and qualifications

  • Less is more

  • Agents

  • Tunnel vision

  • Computer oblivion

  • Importance and validity of information

  • What's human

  • Winners and losers

4. The informations economy

  • Agriculture, industrialism, Info-society

  • From atoms to bits

  • Constant change is the fundamental condition

  • Process rather than product

  • Information is like fish

  • Less is more

  • Mass costumization

  • You can barely get to pay

  • Free?

  • The attention economy

  • The dream society

  • Geography has been suspended

  • Can you collect taxes in Cyberspace?

  • Green taxes

  • Those that have shall get

  • Enormous benefits of scale

  • The art of tying a consumer

  • Next step: Private states

5. The two faces of technology

  • The system knows me

  • The automatic, thinking supermarket

  • Cybernetic intimacy

  • Virtual man

  • Electronic Karma

  • Give and take

  • A revealing use of media

  • Pay - exactly - for your consumption

  • When times are tough

6. The social and ecological crisis

  • Social expulsion

  • IT polarizes jobs and knowledge

  • Dematerialization

  • Could telecommunication replace transportation?

  • The savings are wasted away

7. New values for prosperity

Speed

  • Hurry up, take it easy

  • Enzensberger new luxury

  • A new model of welfare

  • Slow down physical transportation

  • Less, but better

  • 3 fundamental values

  • Quality

  • The necessity of art

  • Art as intuitive compression

  • Love ö the biggest of them all

  • We are human, not machines

New life

8. Smarter than a human

  • When the butler took over the estate

  • Vernor Vinge and the singularity

  • Distributed intelligens

  • If it can happen, it will happen

  • Genetic programming, Danny Hillis

  • Complexity, a young science

  • The Santa Fe Institute

  • The difference is dynamic. Emergence

  • The world is filled with clutter

  • Tiny causes, giant effects

  • Life as an emergent property

  • Hippie with a work station, Chris Langton

  • Biology and technology are not different

  • No strings attached

  • Humanness

9. The biological paradigm

  • Memes

  • The biological paradigm

  • Creepy, slimy hi-tech

  • Biotech: The next wave

  • Pharming

  • New cures

  • Gene therapy

  • A man with a pigs heart

  • Aging

  • Kloning; are humans next?

  • Changing the human germ line

  • Human sperm from mouse testicles

  • A cassette of new genes

  • Unpredictable consequences

  • Sex is only for fun

  • Repairing or improving?

  • The great G-word

  • Riscs

  • Systems conflict

  • Tricky knowledge

  • Humans acting like gods

  • Designing our selves

10. Becoming one with our creations

  • New abilities

  • An added layer to reality

  • Virtual sincerity

  • Our common nervous system

  • Next step: Metaman

McWorld

11. Born to shop

  • The story of shopping

  • Shop till you drop in the mall with it all

  • Disneyworld

  • M/s Paradise

  • Themeparks

  • Disney rules - vote for Mickey

  • Celebration!

  • Pirate-states

  • Disneyland with the deathpenalty

12. Subject to the system

  • Cultural enthropy

  • Barbie in India

  • Money matters

  • MacDonaldization

  • Following the script

  • Who cares

  • Pity the loser

13. Globalization as a matter of fact

  • A world government

  • Politics without values

  • The erosion of the nation state

  • The political consumer

  • Greenpeace ltd.

14. Commitments and responisbilities

  • The reapperance of the citizen

  • Asian values

  • Meeting Big Brother

  • Inner values

  • Symbolic censorship

  • Controlling the net

  • How far does our responisbility extend?

New rules of the game

15. The tragedy of the commons

  • Individualism vs. community

  • La future proche

  • What do we really know?

  • Anything's possible

  • The risc society

  • New instincts

  • Shutting our selves off

16. The need for transparency

  • Decieving GNP

  • An ecological tax reform

  • Protests from the establishment

  • New patterns of consumption

  • Service - what service?

  • There's lots to be done

17. Local atoms, global bits

  • Another kind of globalization

  • Local fit

  • Driving farther to fewer shops

  • Long distance realtionships

  • Fukuyama believes in trust

A new community

18. Realtime

  • Shortcircuiting time

  • Now is a pin prick

  • Hivemind

  • Ritual efforts

19. Complex decisions

  • The hidden consensus

  • Out of control

  • Disappearing power

20. A better future

  • All together now

  • Motivation

  • From fear to desire

  • Civic society

  • The nomad

  • The globe, the picture

  • Searching for the symbol

  • Something to believe in