Comments on: Smart objects and the coming convergence of the digital and the physical as the Third Book of Nature https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/smart-objects-and-the-coming-convergence-of-the-digital-and-the-physical-as-the-third-book-of-nature/2007/11/12 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Mon, 13 Oct 2014 12:40:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: james https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/smart-objects-and-the-coming-convergence-of-the-digital-and-the-physical-as-the-third-book-of-nature/2007/11/12/comment-page-1#comment-136597 Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:31:41 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/smart-objects-and-the-coming-convergence-of-the-digital-and-the-physical-as-the-third-book-of-nature/2007/11/12#comment-136597 Sure the W3C will expand, but it’s probably already overloaded with its present remit. Fully agree that there are plenty of huge projects rolling out that address what Kim is talking about. Of course all this data will get reframed however you want it. @Michel, i’m sure Sterling would be open to your views on copyright law in regard to spimes. Also sure he’s written sci-fi accounts that cover cultural-historico layering with spimey assist:)

]]> By: Paul Salamone https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/smart-objects-and-the-coming-convergence-of-the-digital-and-the-physical-as-the-third-book-of-nature/2007/11/12/comment-page-1#comment-136471 Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:44:30 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/smart-objects-and-the-coming-convergence-of-the-digital-and-the-physical-as-the-third-book-of-nature/2007/11/12#comment-136471 Another great post. I wonder where this fits in with the “object-oriented philosophy” of contemporary metaphysician Graham Harman?

A quote:

Even as the philosophy of language and its supposedly reactionary opponents both declare victory, the arena of the world is jam-packed with diverse objects, their forces unleashed and mostly unloved. Red billiard ball smacks green billiard ball. Snowflakes glitter in the light that cruelly annihilates them; damaged submarines rust along the ocean floor. As flour emerges from mills and blocks of limestone are compressed by earthquakes, gigantic mushrooms spread in the Michigan forest. While human philosophers bludgeon each other over the very possibility of “access” to the world, sharks bludgeon tuna fish, and icebergs smash into coastlines.

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