3.2 Textes: Milestones
J.C.R. Licklider and Robert Taylor
, research directors for the Department of Defense (1968)
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"What will on-line interactive communities be like?" ..."In most fields they will consist of geographically separated members, sometimes grouped in small clusters and sometimes working individually. They will be
communities
not of common location, but of common interest..."
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What will go on inside? Eventually,
every informational transaction
of sufficient consequence to warrant the cost. Each secretarys typewriter, each data-gathering instrument, conceivably each dictation microphone, will feed into the network.
Howard Rheinhold
(1988), "Virtual Communities, Whole Earth Review:
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The network of communications that constitutes a virtual community can include the exchange of information as a kind of commodity, and the economic implications of this phenomenon are significant; the ultimate social potential of the network, however, lies not solely in its utility as an
information market
, but in the
individual and group relationships
that can happen over time.
Résumé: communautés et information
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