roundtable: Re: Internet Economics Workshop

roundtable: Re: Internet Economics Workshop

Re: Internet Economics Workshop

Vigdor Schreibman - FINS (fins@access.digex.net)
Tue, 21 Mar 1995 20:43:26 -0500 (EST) 

Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 20:43:26 -0500 (EST)
From: Vigdor Schreibman - FINS <fins@access.digex.net>
To: roundtable@cni.org
Subject: Re: Internet Economics Workshop
In-Reply-To: <9503211025.AA23620@athena.capital.edu>
Message-Id: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950321203414.19858A-100000@access3.digex.net>


On Tue, 21 Mar 1995, Jeff Briggs wrote:
> 
> Systems designers should also include artists - not just social 
> scientists, etc. (I speak as one trained in anthropology how practices 
> a variety of arts). It is the aesthetic that always gets short shrift 
> in America because its primal function is not understood.

  The "arts in education" movement inspired by a now famous report on 
"Coming to our Senses," made the case for the undeniable value of the 
aesthetic aspect of American life.  Even the great management scientist 
Russell Ackoff has recognized the aesthetic aspiration as one of the 
fundamental needs to be resolved in a healthy society.  These findings 
should obviously have no less relevance here.

  I agree completely with Jeff on this insight.  The trick is to
incorporate the need and its resolution with the original design of 
the system. 


  Vigdor Schreibman
  <fins@access.digex.net>

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