Life: This is PARC Forum Facebook/Peace Tech slide. (week

Life: This is PARC Forum Facebook/Peace Tech slide. (week 8,55/365,jreyes)
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So today I attended a talk at PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) entitled "Facebook applications, mass persuasion, & world peace." Check out the info here The talk was pretty interesting. The speaker talked about the Stanford Facebook class this past spring. It was interesting to see the persuasive technology built in Facebook. Professor Fogg brought up students who made it in the top 100 applications in Facebook. That is impressive because you need to have a lot of users who have installed your application. Anyways at the end he talked about the 30 year peace technology initiative at Stanford. I took a picture of the slide. It is very web 2.0ish and who knows if web 2.0 technology will exist and manifest itself for peace. The stuff on the slide is a great start. It is interesting when we analyze why computers exists, it basically all started out to be a tool in War World II against the German enigma machines for the Allies. I find it ironic that we are going to somehow use a technology created because of war and now use it for peace. At the end of the talk, a person asked a question about the semantics of peace. And said "You should call it harmony rather than peace " It was a "tootin' my horn and someone listen I am not useless" moment from some cat who will probably retire in a couple of years, who made lots of money from war, and needed to chime in, because he hasn't made any real contribution to society, but has talked extensively about some theory for his contribution to mankind. Give me a break, at least Stanford is making an effort to use technology for peace in the world and peace is a lot more positive than non-peace. Basically, the questions were making war (combative language) out of the the word peace. Old esoteric people are crazy! Crazy I tells ya!