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Thursday, August 5, 2010

CultureLab: Are you ready for life in world 3?

CultureLab: Are you ready for life in world 3?: "In the 1970s, Karl Popper came up with a philosophical theory of reality that involved three interacting worlds: the physical world, the mental world, and 'world 3', which comprises all products of the human mind - from ideas, pictures and music to every word ever written.

Something very similar to world 3 is now real and increasingly influencing how we live, says George Djorgovski, co-director of the Center for Advanced Computing Research at Caltech. It's called the internet."

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