Comments on: What McLuhan Could not Foresee https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/what-mcluhan-could-not-foresee/2008/01/15 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Sat, 26 Jan 2008 09:32:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: Backpack radio and wireless at Mediacology https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/what-mcluhan-could-not-foresee/2008/01/15/comment-page-1#comment-178404 Sat, 26 Jan 2008 09:32:37 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/what-mcluhan-could-not-foresee/2008/01/15#comment-178404 s sherpas are famous for their Dokos (backpacks), which can carry the loads of mountain climbers, trekkers and tourists. Elsewhere in the world, there are trends towards mobile phones and mobile Internet. In Nepal, the Antenna Foundation is working on mobile radio stations. They call it Doko Radio. The idea is deceptively simple. Today the minimal equipment for radio production is a portable computer, microphones for recording and software for basic editing. Hence, what once required complex equipment in radio studios and radio stations in major stations, can now effectively fit into a backpack as a portable Doko Radio. As a result persons in remote villages can now record their stories, music and other content, that can subsequently be broadcast via other community radio stations. Culturally this is very important. UNESCO’s goal to record, preserve and foster intangible culture now has an unexpected ally. Socially and philosophically this is even more important, because it implicitly transforms the assumptions of broadcasting. As noted earlier, traditional broadcasting was a one-way method, whereby the centre spread its views from the centre to the provinces. Local users were reduced to passive consumers of content determined by an urban centre. Such broadcasting imposed centralized values and implicitly threatened local diversity and individuality. The Doko approach transforms this paradigm. Local users now become active producers as well as listeners. This new form of broad-casting fosters regional and local diversity as well as individual expression. Citizens create their own local content, which is subsequently shared with others through a broadcasting network of local community stations. Communication is now a two-way process, whereby content is created and shared by all players in rural villages as well as urban centres. This process brings even remote communities back into communication. Hence, this new broadcasting might more appropriately be called share-casting. Sphere: Related Content [...]]]> […] What McLuhan Could not Foresee » P2P Foundation: While much smaller in size and economic power, other developing countries also have novel approaches, which are of the greatest significance. Nepal is a case in point. Electricity and Internet are slowly spreading throughout its valleys. In Nepal, entire, remote valleys are now being connected by WiFi. Mahabir Pun has won the Magasesy Award for these pioneering efforts. Very simply, Nepal, in a far more demanding geography, is achieving what Silicon Valley has thus far failed to achieve. Nepal’s sherpas are famous for their Dokos (backpacks), which can carry the loads of mountain climbers, trekkers and tourists. Elsewhere in the world, there are trends towards mobile phones and mobile Internet. In Nepal, the Antenna Foundation is working on mobile radio stations. They call it Doko Radio. The idea is deceptively simple. Today the minimal equipment for radio production is a portable computer, microphones for recording and software for basic editing. Hence, what once required complex equipment in radio studios and radio stations in major stations, can now effectively fit into a backpack as a portable Doko Radio. As a result persons in remote villages can now record their stories, music and other content, that can subsequently be broadcast via other community radio stations. Culturally this is very important. UNESCO’s goal to record, preserve and foster intangible culture now has an unexpected ally. Socially and philosophically this is even more important, because it implicitly transforms the assumptions of broadcasting. As noted earlier, traditional broadcasting was a one-way method, whereby the centre spread its views from the centre to the provinces. Local users were reduced to passive consumers of content determined by an urban centre. Such broadcasting imposed centralized values and implicitly threatened local diversity and individuality. The Doko approach transforms this paradigm. Local users now become active producers as well as listeners. This new form of broad-casting fosters regional and local diversity as well as individual expression. Citizens create their own local content, which is subsequently shared with others through a broadcasting network of local community stations. Communication is now a two-way process, whereby content is created and shared by all players in rural villages as well as urban centres. This process brings even remote communities back into communication. Hence, this new broadcasting might more appropriately be called share-casting. Sphere: Related Content […]

]]> By: Community Media: Selected Clippings - 01/16/08 « Clippings for PEG Access Television https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/what-mcluhan-could-not-foresee/2008/01/15/comment-page-1#comment-174633 Fri, 18 Jan 2008 03:03:51 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/what-mcluhan-could-not-foresee/2008/01/15#comment-174633 […] A first took us by a small plane to the dirt runway on a hill in Phalpu in the Solukhumbu Valley near Mount Everest, where we saw the recording of a meeting with local persons and were shown a new building where 40 persons per course are being trained to use Internet and do digital editing for radio and television. A second excursion took us by motorcycle some 80 km Northwest of Kathmandu to a village near Palung set on a hilltop of c. 2,300 meters. Here we witnessed recording of a meeting, songs and local music.   —> http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/what-mcluhan-could-not-foresee/2008/01/15 ~ […]

]]> By: adam moran https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/what-mcluhan-could-not-foresee/2008/01/15/comment-page-1#comment-173502 Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:45:35 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/what-mcluhan-could-not-foresee/2008/01/15#comment-173502 You have a typo in this quote … “There is no reason why anyone would want a computer art their home.”

]]> By: Jon Awbrey https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/what-mcluhan-could-not-foresee/2008/01/15/comment-page-1#comment-173463 Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:14:12 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/what-mcluhan-could-not-foresee/2008/01/15#comment-173463 Friends, Roamin’s, Global Villagers,

Memory serves but a fuzzy anamnesis of Marshall McLuhan’s message about media, but the more distinct edges of my aging impression tell me that he saw further on his foggiest day than most of our contemporaries see on their clearest.

I think that 2008 is a decade too late to be reading yet another Gospel of the Coming Singularity and one more Prophecy of How the Medium is the Messiah of the new Millennium.

It should be clear from what we’ve seen so far that “the trail of the human serpent is over all”, as I dimly remember Wiliam James saying. To wit, or not, that the Rule of PRATS — People Remain Always The Same — will ever rule our lives more than this wik’s gizmo ever will.

Slavation, not salvation, is all that Technology brings to those who fail to know themselves first.

But enough for this Box — I will expand my e-comious laminations on the McLuhan thread already in progress at The Wikipedia Review.

P.S. Jonny Cache helped me write this. Just so you know who to blame.

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