The Sociology of High Technology is what I came up with when I started blending my interests in artificial intelligence, psychology, futurism, history, chaos theory, philosophy, and computer mediated communications. In researching artificial intelligence it became apparent that it would be helpful if we knew what intelligence was in order to make an artificial version. This lead to studying neuronal growth and learning patterns, which lead directly to chaos theory and complex systems. Through it all I was working with global communications and workgroups, looking at how the coming information economy would affect whole populations, and how individuals could adapt and thrive with technological change when a part of their social lives was taken from the global village.
All the above fields are so inextricably intertwined in most cases as to make some categorizations possible only by fiat. My foundation for working with the interplay of the above group is Systems Theory, blended from both Ludwig von Bertalanffy and Ervin Laszlo, and mixed liberally with the non-linear dynamics, strange attractors, and bifurcations of Edward Lorenz and Ilya Prigogine. Thus, there will be a healthy dose of the Philosophy of Science, and my particular sub-specialty, Darwinian based evolutionary epistemology, sprinkled throughout all the above categories.
RoundTable Forum for the Sociology of High Technology
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Chaos, Complexity, and Systems Theory
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Complex (Adaptive) Systems Information
- Lotsa links to resources on Artificial Life, Genetic Algorithms, Evolutionary Progamming, etc.
Welcome to the Principia Cybernetica Web
- Located at the Free University of Brussels, the research concerns cybernetics and systems theory.
Computer Mediated Communications and Environments
Internet Web Text
- John December's excellent guide to Computer Mediated Communications
Digital Media
InterText Magazine
Distributed ELectronic Telecommunications Archive (DELTA)
The Human Factor Home Page
Network Information Retrieval
- This is a collection of directory type resources and other information services that can lead you to information on just about any subject you may be interested in. The first half dozen or so are listed in my own subjective order of usefullness.
EINet Galaxy
- Exceptionally well indexed, good search interface.
Internet Web Text
Information By Subject
Yahoo
Subject Based Information
WebCrawler Searching
Finger Gateway
Internet Services List
Internet RFCs
- Proposed and draft standards for the Internet protocols and the Internet itself.
FTP Sites
Archie Request Form
Web Servers Directory
Psychology and Sociology
Neurosciences Internet Resource Guide
The BEE Hive - UW Psychology
Cognitive & Psychological Sciences
American Psychological Society (APS)
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