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I was sitting in a conference yesterday listening to a self-proclaimed Collaboration expert who has a PhD in some sort of nonsense and who wrote a book that was being handed out free afta da show. He was basically discussing collaboration in the workplace and how technology has affected it, particularly the internet and other, newer forms of "non-traditional" media. Now listen to this quote that he flashed on the screen:
"Media act as living vortices of power creating hidden environments and effects that act abrasively and destructively on older forms of culture." - Marshall McLuhan,
Understanding Media
I sat there and read that a few times and then wrote it down. Finally I sank back in my chair and said, "Whoa." I could not help but think about how familiar that sounded when sifting the Lowbar manifest through my brain. If you recall, as stated on 3 May 2001:
"Lowbar is a creative entity. It is organic. It is the sum of the creative inputs of the principal members. Whatever the four principal members decide to place on the site will constitute its contents. The vision of Lowbar is to be an exercise in phenomenology. The ideas of Lowbar, its creative content and iconography will increase in popularity through the determination, persistence and talent of the principal members. Use your imagination, Lowbar is anything you want it to be. Use your effort, the collective effort of the principal members will create a powerful singular entity." - Howie Hardcore
Whoa
