{"id":336,"date":"2003-05-14T14:57:55","date_gmt":"2003-05-14T18:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/metasj\/novelty\/"},"modified":"2003-05-14T14:57:55","modified_gmt":"2003-05-14T18:57:55","slug":"novelty","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/novelty\/","title":{"rendered":"The Neverending Novelty of Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

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1960’s roots of our novel social tools, and the long timelines<\/STRONG> often required to realize the power of great inventions, noted here by Kottke. ==>\"\"<\/STRONG><\/A><==  (why is it so hard to copy the URL from around that image?)<\/FONT><\/P>
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How can we learn, as a culture, to gloat less about new change and solidly press forward<\/STRONG> more?  The illusions of immediate competition forcing hasty decisions in order to achieve anything, is fundamentally off-base — the externalities caused by conformance or non-conformance to a norm are generally small in comparison to the benefits of an improved design, when that last improvement is multiplied <\/STRONG>across a large spectrum of derivative works.  That investors and consumers don’t realize this disparity at first does NOT mean that it isn’t still economically and socially\/practically viable for a [group] to take advantage of that disparity over a suitable timeframe<\/STRONG>.
      Finding ways to extend the notion of ‘sustainability’ and ‘profitability’ to include both local environmental effects, ripple effects in surrounding markets, and direct effects on derivative works, is a crucial step in the advancement of our civilization’s memes.<\/P>
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      Future progress starts with children; where are our specialized schools to raise children in a technically-enhanced environment, to see how the environment changes them and find out what happens when they move to change it?  Contemplating how people just like us<\/STRONG> might use novel tools in ten years, even while developing new variants for ourselves, is so much less exciting<\/U> than finding out how children with no preconceptions do<\/STRONG> use these tools.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1960’s roots of our novel social tools, and the long timelines often required to realize the power of great inventions, noted here by Kottke. ==><==  (why is it so hard to copy the URL from around that image?) How can we learn, as a culture, to gloat less about new change and solidly press forward more?  […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-336","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P7iVvB-5q","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}