Via David Weinberger: "(…) Ulrike
Reinhard, of WhoIsWho, video-interviewed me on our back porch last
week. She asked me about the need for serendipity, what an “open”
Internet means, the costs of social networks, the new sense of privacy,
user-controlled identity systems, Web 3.0, market conversations,
categorization and control, Twitter, Obama… (…)"
Serendipity is a fascinating concept. I strongly believe that the way we learn new things and expand our horizons is through serendipity. In order to discover and, if you will, accept something new, this "news" needs to be presented to us in a familiar, trusted, i.e. "old" context.
We hardly ever buy into something entirely unfamiliar. For example, if we don't know the source, we are less prone to trust the news. In conversations, I am more likely to learn something new from people with whom I have, say, 80 percent in common, than from people with whom I have, say, 10 percent in common. If you get my drift…
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