User talk:John Doe~enwikibooks

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What is this, John?

 * What is this John? Alice in Cyberwonderland. -- user:zanimum
 * John, I think Alice in Cyberwonderland violates What Wikibooks is not, rule #4, Wikibooks is not fiction. Gentgeen 20:09, 1 Aug 2004 (UTC)


 * Genteen, thanks for pointing this out, as I realize at first glance Alice in Cyberwonderland does appear to be fiction, and your concern gives me an opportunity to talk about the underlying conceptual framework of Alice in Wonderland and how it is intended to serve as a teaching tale.


 * For as Alice journeys through the various doors, windows, gates and digital passageways. etc, she learns - albeit in an uncoventional, fantastic way - about the remarkable and fascinating properties of a real-time, interactive. digital, knowledge-based universe. I have outlined some of the details below, and slightly reorganized what I had written here before. John Doe 01:41, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Alice in Cyberwonderland - A Teaching Tale

 * '4. ... Wikibooks primary mission is to create open source textbooks, how-to guides, and classroom aids. - from What Wikibooks is not


 * Alice in Cyberwonderland - and any such sequels as might emerge, e.g. Alice Through the Windows, Alice's Adventures in Wikiwonderland, although on the surface a work of fiction and fantasy, is being written as an imaginative vehicle of discovery of the wonders of a digital universe: a universe not subject to the constraints of the laws of conservation of mass and energy - as everything that lives in a purely digital form has zero mass, zero physical size, with virtually zero travel time, a universe governed by the laws and properties of information, information systems; a world where the nture of proerty has become transformed, with the nature of information itself favouring the freedom of expression, exploration. inquiry and exchnage that a wiki, open source, open content, interactive information powered by evolving interoperable digital engines whose creative work consumes virtually no energy, where the same entity can be in many places at the same time and in many different forms ...


 * Among the specific examples of how Alice's adventures open up exploration and discovering of the naure of digital universes are the light and colour cubes - soon to be the basis for another Wikibook - and her discovery of the state of the Mesopotamian Marshlands will led her into a journey through time and space where becomes a participant in the emergence of a new knowledge-based civilization in which the restoration of the decimated Mesopotamian Marshes in Southern Iraq serves as a catalyst for a rebirth in the cradle of civilization.


 * Alice also becomes immersed in a world of information species - a few of which have already been identified in the current draft - and begins to become aware of the wonders of information ecosystems and Information Ecology.
 * I could go into more detail - in fact I did so yesterday but neglected to save the draft - and hadn't found the time get back here until a short time go - however, the hour is late. More - or less - later.

A Tale Whose Time Has Come

 * "There is a tide in the affairs of man
 *  Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune
 * On such a full sea are we now afloat;
 * And we must take the current when it serves,
 * Or lose our ventures.
 * Brutus in Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
 * Brutus in Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

A tribute to Lewis Carroll

 * A self-revealing light-hearted tribute to Lewis Carroll - aka Rev. Charles Dodson - and a choice to follow Rev. Dodson's footsteps of anonymity.


 * An exploration of a different wonderland, one that did not exist in Lewis Carroll's time. If Lewis Carroll were alive now, might not he - as a mathematician - have been fascinated by the wonders of digital technology. Might he not have conjured up tales for a modern-day Alice that took place in today's lookinglass - plus microscope and telescope - world of the Internet?

A tribute to mathematics

 * The commmon bond of mathematics is a special bridge to the mind to Lewis Carroll, for the mathematics of information - including zero mass, zero physical size, and virtually zero travel time - and fields such as chaos mathematics, mathematical biology and more have been among the numerous sources of inspiration to John Doe's alter ego in his explorations and appreciation of the dynamics of a digital knowledge-based universe.

An imaginary journey through the wonders of a digital universe

 * For the tale that reveals itself, is a tale of global transofrmation - transition to a center of gravity - and levity too - a new Nash Equilibirum based on the properties and dynamics of the digital knowledge-based universe that many John Does - and Jane Does too - discover themselves immersed in the vast, wonderful and mysterious information ecosystem - see, for example, the wikibook on Information Ecology - with virtually no boundaries, and virtually free from the constraints of the laws of conservation of mass and energy.

Improvisatonal Plays

 * In a world that at time can be osessed with work, Alice in Cyberwonderland is a space for improvisational play - playing with words and meanings, with numbers and mathematical expresions, plays of apparent illusion and disillusion - plays of paradox ... and in the process, rediscovering how we can - and do - learn through interactive play and games.


 * The play's the thing,
 * Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.
 * Hamlet in Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2, by William Shakespeare

Revelation of a "Gaia Mind"?

 * Perhaps it will become self-evident that what is arising through the birth and evolution of new forms of collective intelligence is no less than the manifestation of a Gaia Mind - a mind that serves as the key to a new era in the life of Gaia - the Earth and the commuity of life of the Earth

Catalyst: the Mesopotamian Marshlands

 * Who knows? Perhaps the regeneration of the Mesopotamian Marshlands - between the rivers - a cradle of civilization - may be the venue through which clear evidence of the presence and workings of a Gaia Mind become revealed - hotspots, tension points that reflect the convergence of almost all of the dimensions of tension and conflict on the Earth and that may, going beyond the canary in the coal mine, may not only be alerting us to the perils of the distortion of moral and economic values associated with a world addicted to unsustainable fossil-fuel-dependence and a reliance on military force and weapons of destruction to suppress conflict, rather than a way that honours the earth, treasures the healing powers of hwater, and where civilization and the laws of the land uphold nonviolent, peaceful resolution of conflict.

John Doe - Everybody, Anybody

 * In common usage, John Doe is anybody - and everybody - and seems to be a fitting name for a wikibook author


 * In this wikibook, anybody - even you - can be a co-author, a contributor, perhaps even a member of the cast of what might even evolve into a feature-length interactive open source dvd movie ...

John Doe & Lewis Carroll

 * like Lewis Carroll, John Doe's alter ego is a mathematician
 * unlike Lewis Carroll, John Doe's alter ego read mathematics at Cambridge, not Oxford
 * like Lewis Carroll, John Doe's alter ego loves reading imaginary tales to young children
 * unlike Lewis Carroll, John Doe's alter ego is a father - of one daughter and two sons
 * like Lewis Carroll, John Doe's alter ego is a person of faith
 * unlike Lewis Carroll, John Doe's alter ego has no formal credentials as to his faith

John Doe and the Housing Court of Kings

 * While the seeds of Alice in Cyberwonderland had begun to germinatre earlier, it was the appearance of John Doe in the Housing Court of Kings that that both inspired the as-yet barely revealed episodes of Alice in the Housing Court of Kings and led to he adoption of the name of John Doe as the alias under which Alice would be writeen.

John Doe 15:01, 1 Aug 2004 (UTC)
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