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Sue H's avatar

Perhaps this is the language of wayfinding... 🌿

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Richard Merrick's avatar

I think it is...

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Ciaran Duggan's avatar

Keep throwing those leaves about Richard, they rearranged themselves very well that time!

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Robert Paterson's avatar

I think the metaphor is perfect. Not even a metaphor but an apt description of the process which is the same

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Richard Merrick's avatar

Thanks Robert. The issue of finding new language is intriguing me...

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Robert Paterson's avatar

By coincidence I am reading a series by the prolific Andrew Wareham where the details and impact of enclosure is central. He writes 12 - 15 books a year! Very well researched and for me addictive https://andrewwarehamauthor.com/books/

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Richard Merrick's avatar

Did you see the link to Richard Martin’s piece on enclosure- great piece. The themes I touched on in the post all seem to have legs. Maybe we can exercise them :-)

I’ll see about getting some of us together to chat about it....

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Robert Paterson's avatar

Sums it up. Trying to work out why the establishment are so "against" AI. It frees learners from the enclosures of "Education" and it threatens the idea of Copyright, the enclosure of the written word - once I see the concept of Enclosure, it's everywhere - as you have said, the whole subscription/leasing movement ties people in and reduces their autonomy

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Richard Merrick's avatar

Maybe if we called it auxiliary intelligence instead?

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Ed Brenegar's avatar

Richard, Richard Martin recently wrote on this. https://richardmartinwriter.com/2023/06/03/enclosed/

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martin knox's avatar

I wonder at becoming

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