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I was describing the pie chart of web trends and social media characteristics to a friend while realizing that I am the age in the 5 percentile of social media and social networking users. I wasn't surprised or even amazed.
In 1976, six local video artists gathered on the second floor of TelePrompter Cable TV's headend on 112th Street near SeaTac Airport and gripped hands and turned the knob of a Sony 1/2 inch reel-to-reel videotape deck to begin Seattle's first Public Access programming. At that point we were in the 5 percentile of "gorilla media artists" showing up at events and standing not next to the three local broadcast stations' cameras, but within the group of people, the marchers, dancers down First Avenue that sunny Fat Tuesday in February. Taking video from inside the participation itself, then miraculously (ever edited 1/2 inch reel-to-reel?), finishing our own story and putting it on Channel 3.
A report by the Majority Staff of the Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Consumer Protection, and Finance of the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the U.S. House of Representatives in 1981, entitled Telecommunication in Transition: The Status of Competition in the Telecommunications Industry, proclaims on page 21, "The technological revolution - particularly in the video sector - holds a promise of great abundance for the public." As a Communications undergraduate in 1973, reading Harold Sackman's Mass Information Utilities and Social Excellence he notes that, "More bluntly, the public information utility is too big for government, industry, or the community to handle separately on its own - either they work together and achieve together in the framework of open social experimentation, or else the great social potential of the computer utility may become the most barren wasteland of them all. The proof is in the pudding. The study of the human use of computers, according to the testimony of existing trends, is a shambles. New forms of cooperative social experimentation, as I have repeatedly emphasized and will now demonstrate, is our best hope."
Social networking is an extension of Sackman's experimentation, the Teleports and Teleworks now in place continue his thoughts that, "The experiment has to be in and of the real world, not by a laboratory surrogate. The scientific leap is from the traditional laboratory to the real world, a leap that merits the name radical. The humanistic leap is equally radical, from independent development by isolated groups working largely under proprietary wraps to open and cooperative development at a total community level."
To continue my involvement in this experiment, this social connectivity now so robust and growing is more real, enlightening and pleasing than ever.
In 1976, six local video artists gathered on the second floor of TelePrompter Cable TV's headend on 112th Street near SeaTac Airport and gripped hands and turned the knob of a Sony 1/2 inch reel-to-reel videotape deck to begin Seattle's first Public Access programming. At that point we were in the 5 percentile of "gorilla media artists" showing up at events and standing not next to the three local broadcast stations' cameras, but within the group of people, the marchers, dancers down First Avenue that sunny Fat Tuesday in February. Taking video from inside the participation itself, then miraculously (ever edited 1/2 inch reel-to-reel?), finishing our own story and putting it on Channel 3.
A report by the Majority Staff of the Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Consumer Protection, and Finance of the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the U.S. House of Representatives in 1981, entitled Telecommunication in Transition: The Status of Competition in the Telecommunications Industry, proclaims on page 21, "The technological revolution - particularly in the video sector - holds a promise of great abundance for the public." As a Communications undergraduate in 1973, reading Harold Sackman's Mass Information Utilities and Social Excellence he notes that, "More bluntly, the public information utility is too big for government, industry, or the community to handle separately on its own - either they work together and achieve together in the framework of open social experimentation, or else the great social potential of the computer utility may become the most barren wasteland of them all. The proof is in the pudding. The study of the human use of computers, according to the testimony of existing trends, is a shambles. New forms of cooperative social experimentation, as I have repeatedly emphasized and will now demonstrate, is our best hope."
Social networking is an extension of Sackman's experimentation, the Teleports and Teleworks now in place continue his thoughts that, "The experiment has to be in and of the real world, not by a laboratory surrogate. The scientific leap is from the traditional laboratory to the real world, a leap that merits the name radical. The humanistic leap is equally radical, from independent development by isolated groups working largely under proprietary wraps to open and cooperative development at a total community level."
To continue my involvement in this experiment, this social connectivity now so robust and growing is more real, enlightening and pleasing than ever.
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