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We talk about RealSpace in homage to Paul Levinson’s book RealSpace: The Fate of Physical Presence in the Digital Age, On and Off Planet. According to Paul, Realspace “is about the need for full, face-to-face interaction with people and the world around us in the age of the Internet. It is about life before and beyond cyberspace.”

Reader of earlier issues of Wired Magazine, noticed that its masthead listed a “patron saint” named Marshall McLuhan. He spoke of the “global village,” and coined the aphorism “the medium is the message.” Paul Levinson, once a student of McLuhan’s, has updated McLuhan’s writings, all pre-Internet, to deal with today’s new media. I encourage you to read Levinson’s Digital McLuhan.

From a posting on Dale B. Halling’s blog State of Innovation at http://hallingblog.com/thomas-jefferson-on-patents/

Thomas Jefferson on Patents
“The fact is that one new idea leads to another, that to a third, and so on through a course of time until someone, with whom no one of these ideas was original, combines all together, and produces what is justly called a new invention.”
- Thomas Jefferson, Director of the 1st U.S. Patent Board -

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1.And Jefferson should know, because he made a bunch of them, as anyone who’s visited Monticello would know.

On another Jefferson perspective, see David Post’s book “In Search of Jefferson’s Moose: Notes on the State of Cyberspace” http://ow.ly/hces. It takes off from Jefferson’s confronting a vast new territory and figuring out how to incorporate it into a new nation, and thinks about cyberspace analogously. David teaches at the Temple University School of Law in Philadelphia, home of the Liberty Bell.

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Comment by Gerry Elman | July 13, 2009