[Fis] ongoing session

[Pedro C. Marijuan]

Dear FISers,

The computer crash we have had these two weeks in the list, and the 
nasty consequences of having partially lost the archives, reminds me how 
ephemeral are these new repositories of knowledge. Reminding the topic 
of the ongoing session by John Prick, it is a form of collective 
intelligence that works amazingly fast, but it is highly fragile and 
gets into obsolescence amazingly fast too. It is a new way of social 
interaction that supports the emergence of new knowledge "institutions" 
so to speak, but too far outside the immediate bounds of our individual 
cognitive capability. Let us wait and see for the actual limits of all 
these new fangs.

Sorry for the list problems. It was a very frustrating experience 
--hopefully the worst is over.

best wishes

---Pedro

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Pedro C. Marijuán
Grupo de Bioinformación / Bioinformation Group
Instituto Aragonés de Ciencias de la Salud
Centro de Investigación Biomédica de Aragón (CIBA)
Avda. San Juan Bosco, 13, planta X
50009 Zaragoza, Spain
Tfno. +34 976 71 3526 (& 6818)
pcmarijuan.iacs at aragon.es
http://sites.google.com/site/pedrocmarijuan/
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